Re: Unable to get pine-pgp-filters and pinentry-curses to work together

2007-08-15 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Doug Barton wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: BTW, I ask coz I don't know: as a matter of etiquette, is it a good idea to cc the author/ maintainer of the port even if he/ she is subscribed to the list? I think that both tradition and expediency say yes. You happened

Unable to get pine-pgp-filters and pinentry-curses to work together

2007-08-14 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
the only workaround I've come up with is to install security/gnupg1. That does not require pinentry and so it works well with pine-pgp-filters. Thanks, Rakhesh -- | Rakhesh Sasidharanrakhesh -at- rakhesh.com | | FreeBSD hobbyist http

Re: Unable to get pine-pgp-filters and pinentry-curses to work together

2007-08-14 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Doug Barton wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: I installed mail/pine and security/gnupg from ports. While trying to use gnupg, whenever it needed to ask me for the passphrase, I ran into errors such as the below: gpg-agent[86284]: can't connect server: `ERR 67109133 can't

How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc?

2007-08-11 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi, Just a question that struck me today. Before there were the portupgrade and other tools for upgrading installed applications to their newer versions, how did things work out? Did one upgrade applications through a series of make deinstall reinstall commands (I wonder if these commands

Re: How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc?

2007-08-11 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Along those lines, yes. I'm one of those administrators who does not want something like portupgrade on his systems; I do not believe in having two separate databases maintaining dependencies and what's installed (portupgrade vs. base system pkg_* tools). Lots of

Re: How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc?

2007-08-11 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 11:37:22AM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:03:33PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Hi, Just a question that struck me today. Before there were the portupgrade and other tools for upgrading installed

Re: How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc?

2007-08-11 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Kris Kennaway wrote: I'm curious now -- how does portupgrade (that's the tool I know/ use so I'll use that as an example) do its upgrading? I have seen that in case of an upgrade in builds the newer version, uninstalls the previous one (even though it might be required by other apps), and then

Re: How did upgrading applications happen before portupgrade etc?

2007-08-11 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 03:02:53PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: 5. pkg_delete port I see. In step 5, pkg_delete port wont work if port is required by others right? So you delete those apps too? Could be a lot of stuff to uninstall, right? Absolutely correct

ca-roots expired?

2007-08-09 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi there, I noticed today that ''security/ca-roots'' expires in less than a month. After it expires where can one get the CA certificates from? TIA, Rakhesh ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ca-roots expired?

2007-08-09 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-Aug-09 10:15:45 +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed today that ''security/ca-roots'' expires in less than a month. After it expires where can one get the CA certificates from? There's a security/ca_root_nss port that installs the root

Building Pine with PASSFILE option

2007-08-07 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi, I understand one can compile the email client Pine with an option PASSFILE=some file name to enable the option of saving your mail account passwords. The Pine website talks about it and so do many sites all over the net. FreeBSD's ports do not seem to offer such an option. I went

Re: Building Pine with PASSFILE option

2007-08-07 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Scot Hetzel wrote: I used the += coz I got the got the impression that adds onto the existing extra options. And if I want to make this permanent, can I define it in /etc/make.conf accordingly? .if ${.CURDIR:M*/mail/pine4} EXTRA_OPTS+=PASSFILE=.pine.pwd .endif But it will work from

Re: portsdb and cvsup

2007-08-06 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
reply at the *end* of the quoted post. Makes it easier to read the original messages first and then the reply in that context. Just mentioning ... Thanks again, Arend Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: The approach that I had been using was: /usr

Re: portsdb and cvsup

2007-08-06 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
If you ever figure out what special macros are or in which situations the ''-U'' switch is useful, please do let me know. Having Special Macros is (I am almost certain) a strange way of saying that you have set various make variables which will affect the dependency tree for a port. Eg. if

Re: portsdb and cvsup

2007-08-06 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Matthew Seaman wrote: There isn't one place you can go to see everything that might affect a particular port. The port's Makefile is a good place to start, and most port Maintainers will document to a greater or lesser extent what tunables and so forth are available within the file, although