Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-06-22 Thread Mike Brown
I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor version (from 8.3-RELEASE to 8.4-RELEASE). I'm surprised that the merge handling system isn't more robust. When upgrading the old way, from source, I was used to using mergemaster to handle any merges that couldn't be done automat

freebsd-update percentage indicators - what are they, why are they so random?

2013-06-22 Thread Mike Brown
I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to the latest minor release. At a couple points in the process, I get weird status indicators (percentages) showing me that something is happening: Fetching 1 metadata files... 70.5% done. 70.5% 70.5% 74.2% 74.2% 81.7% 81.7% 70.5% Inspecting

Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!

2013-06-22 Thread Miguel Clara
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/23/13 00:17, Miguel Clara wrote: > > I have an Acer (S3-391) laptop, its a recent model with an SSD and > HHD for a very nice price. > > I'm running FreeBSD 10-current, because of the wireless driver. > > I notice I can't use the brightness ho

Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!

2013-06-22 Thread Miguel Clara
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an Acer (S3-391) laptop, its a recent model with an SSD and HHD for a very nice price. I'm running FreeBSD 10-current, because of the wireless driver. I notice I can't use the brightness hotkeys (Fn + Left/Right Arrows) even with acpi_video..

Re: When to submit regression in a PR

2013-06-22 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013, at 2:42, Aymeric Mansoux wrote: > > My question therefore is: while I will mention these problems upstream, > should I also make the PR? Contact the port maintainer directly? > I understand it is not FreeBSD specific (same issue on Debian Sid) > however it really make the cu