Re: portmaster not ask for port deletion

2009-08-28 Thread Skip Ford
Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:59:19 -0700 From: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org Skip Ford wrote: Well, it wasn't immediately obvious to me that someone would ever want to mark a port ignore and then want to upgrade it. So

Re: portmaster not ask for port deletion

2009-08-28 Thread Skip Ford
Doug Barton wrote: Skip Ford wrote: So, basically, portmaster stopped and asked for input because it thought I might've forgotten that I installed an +IGNOREME file 10 minutes prior. I'd prefer to not have tools that try to think about what I'm doing. It should do what I say it should

Re: portmaster not ask for port deletion

2009-08-27 Thread Skip Ford
Doug Barton wrote: Skip Ford wrote: Doug Barton wrote: Second, without knowing what command line you used I couldn't tell you for sure what happened of course, but assuming you used some combination of '-af' what you saw was expected behavior. There is a conflict (I think a fairly

Re: portmaster not ask for port deletion

2009-08-25 Thread Skip Ford
Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:54:54 -0700 Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: It sounds to me like what you're seeing is portmaster asking whether or not you want to delete the distfiles after an upgrade. The easiest way to deal with that is to use '-aD' and then when it's

Re: portmaster not ask for port deletion

2009-08-25 Thread Skip Ford
Doug Barton wrote: Skip Ford wrote: Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:54:54 -0700 Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: It sounds to me like what you're seeing is portmaster asking whether or not you want to delete the distfiles after an upgrade. The easiest way to deal

Re: visibility of release process

2008-12-10 Thread Skip Ford
Ken Smith wrote: With the 7.0 release I tried giving just the URL of the primary site (ftp.freebsd.org) but that proved people don't just want easy - they're lazy. For the most part they just clicked on that and didn't look around for a mirror. Hence your observation about the difference in

Re: DVD-RW doesn't write

2008-06-10 Thread Skip Ford
Greg Black wrote: On 2008-06-10, Joe Kelsey wrote: I have never managed to use burncd with any drive. Just for the record, I've been using burncd successfully with a variety of drives from the early days of FreeBSD through to at least 7.0-R, so I doubt if the above means very much. I

Re: 6.2-STABLE = 7.0-STABLE Upgrade root partition more full

2008-06-06 Thread Skip Ford
Gavin Spomer wrote: I successfully did my first FreeBSD upgrade yesterday after looking at the manual, and cross referencing with Googling and getting help from our network engineer here at CWU. Before the upgrade, running df showed: Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity

Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

2008-02-28 Thread Skip Ford
Marko Lerota wrote: In http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html says Updating Existing Systems An upgrade of any existing system to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE constitutes a major version upgrade, so no matter which method you use to update an older system you should reinstall any

Re: RELENG_7: GENERIC and options LOCK_PROFILING are breaking sockstat and netstat -a

2007-12-10 Thread Skip Ford
Boris Samorodov wrote: The system updated a couple of hours ago (RELENG_7), the kernel config is GENERIC with options LOCK_PROFILING, default /etc/make.conf, i386 (I have this problem at current-amd64 as well): - bb% uname -a FreeBSD bb.ipt.ru 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #1: Mon Dec 10

Re: RELENG_7: GENERIC and options LOCK_PROFILING are breaking sockstat and netstat -a

2007-12-10 Thread Skip Ford
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:22:01 -0500 Skip Ford wrote: Boris Samorodov wrote: The system updated a couple of hours ago (RELENG_7), the kernel config is GENERIC with options LOCK_PROFILING, default /etc/make.conf, i386 (I have this problem at current-amd64 as well

Re: 6.3 PRERELEASE

2007-11-09 Thread Skip Ford
Jon Holstrom wrote: I had 6.2 stable all setup had gnome 2.18 all humming along 100% java eclipse, tomcat, bah bah bah! updated src rebuilt only to find 6.2 is gone 6.3 prerelease! ( I think there should be a button we need to push to get software we DONT want! j/k) with my

Re: LOCK_PROFILING in -stable

2007-10-24 Thread Skip Ford
Robert Watson wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: This is my feeling also -- I would consider ABI breakage a show stopper for 6.x, but feel otherwise that the new code is much more mature and capable and would be quite beneficial to people building appliances and related

Re: named.conf restored to hint zone for the root by default

2007-08-02 Thread Skip Ford
Doug Barton wrote: In an effort to find some kind of balance (I won't even try to say consensus) between those who hate the idea of slaving the root zones, those who like the idea but don't want it to be the default, and those who like the idea, I've made the following change: 1. Change the

Re: named.conf restored to hint zone for the root by default

2007-08-02 Thread Skip Ford
Doug Barton wrote: Skip Ford wrote: Just like I'd think everyone should sync with stratum-1 servers if those operators supported everyone doing that. I've already pointed out that this is a silly analogy, as the two things have nothing in common. At the most basic level: Individual

Re: default dns config change causing major poolpah

2007-08-01 Thread Skip Ford
Randy Bush wrote: the undiscussed and unannounced change to the default dns config to cause local transfer of the root and arpa zone files has raised major discussing in the dns operational community. (see the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]). did i miss the discussion here? No. There was

Re: default dns config change causing major poolpah

2007-08-01 Thread Skip Ford
Doug Barton wrote: If there is a consensus based on solid technical reasons (not emotion or FUD) to back the root zone slaving change out, If that's a shot at me, you're out of line. I specifically said I didn't have an axe to grind with anyone, and I never piled on in my comments. The reason

Re: default dns config change causing major poolpah

2007-08-01 Thread Skip Ford
Doug Barton wrote: Skip Ford wrote: The reason I provided *is* purely technical. The roots can decide tomorrow to block AXFR requests from FreeBSD users who install 6.3-RELEASE or 7.0-RELEASE. They may. They may not. But they can. Here is where the problem lies. What you're

Re: default dns config change causing major poolpah

2007-08-01 Thread Skip Ford
Mark Andrews wrote: I don't think that all of the drama could have been avoided in any case, there is too much emotion surrounding this issue. I'll concur with Doug on this. I've been discussing doing just this for the last 10+ years. Why don't you update 2870 then to make

Re: default dns config change causing major poolpah

2007-08-01 Thread Skip Ford
Mark Andrews wrote: I don't think that all of the drama could have been avoided in any case, there is too much emotion surrounding this issue. I'll concur with Doug on this. I've been discussing doing just this for the last 10+ years. Why don't you update 2870 then to