Re: Still looking for 1U servers in western canada.

2013-06-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 03:21:36PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: > I'm still looking for 1U servers in western canada. we have an > opportunity to build a better build infrastructure for ports but need > the gear to do it with. > > I would be keenly interested in > > 1) Workable semi-modern amd64 capabl

Re: libfaac in ffmpeg on OpenBSD

2013-06-12 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:59:53PM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > > Since there was a legal thing the issue is closed. However you're just > nagging. I enhanced the OpenBSD port and thought I'd share, your > response will make me keep these things secret in the future. Come on, 5 mn spent wit

Re: X or cwm got slower

2013-06-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 06:24:06PM +0100, Callum Davies wrote: > On 25/06/2013 08:58, Philip Guenther wrote > >I'm no X hacker, but I think the 'nv' driver was affected by Xorg > >removing the XAA acceleration framework from the core server. It was > >an evolutionary dead-end, apparently, so don't

Re: MariaDB and OpenBSD

2013-06-28 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:36:10AM -0700, Bogdan Andu wrote: > ok, that did the trick > > but how can I specify in one place this variable > env LD_PRELOAD=libpthread.so? > > is this related to mariadb-client? > > i think > i'll switch back to mysql until mariadb is fully supported by OpenBSD. >

Re: apropos

2013-06-28 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 01:32:20PM -0500, patric conant wrote: > "During the first Toronto hackathon, I focused on the SQLite database > backend for mandocdb(8). Currently, mandocdb is still disabled in > OpenBSD-current, but it is intended to become a drop-in replacement for the > makewhatis(8) ut

Re: syslog.conf tabs vs spaces

2013-07-01 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 01:21:28PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Laughably, I got bitten again: > > The selector field is separated from the action field > by one or more tab characters. > > A tab is a tab, not a few spaces. Again, I copied > a syslog.conf line from another xterm after an u

Re: Still unable to compile binaries :(

2013-07-02 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 02:50:08PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > > These are defined in y.tab.h, which is created by yacc -d > > This might have been fixed in -current by the import of the newer > version of heimdal, but I don't have time to check right now. > > I suggest you stop using parall

Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

2013-07-04 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 11:56:50PM -0400, Thomas Jennings wrote: > Dear OpenBSD developers and users: > > Regretfully, I have decided to abandon OpenBSD and thought I would > share my reasoning with this list. I thought the 4th of July was a > good date to do so since my reasons address national s

Re: Issue: pkg_add gettext-0.18.2p1

2013-07-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 01:14:01AM +1000, MK2 wrote: > # pkg_add http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.3/packages/ > amd64/gettext-0.18.2p1.tgz > > Fatal error: Ustar [http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.3/packages/ > amd64/gettext-0.18.2p1.tgz][share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ > gettext-tools.mo]:

Re: goaccess 0.5

2013-07-09 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:01:11AM +0300, Tony Berth wrote: > is anyone using goaccess 0.5 with 5.2 or 5.3? > > When running './configure' I get: > > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > checking for a thread-safe mkdir

Re: 5.4-beta#20 xterm(1)/luit(1) in cwm, CM-Return random defunc

2013-07-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:06:44AM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > > On Jul 10 01:30:23, guent...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Philip Guenther > >> wrote: > >> > Looks like a race in luit's startup, due to how it handl

Re: Java on OpenBSD 5.3

2013-07-19 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 09:12:57PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: > > Pretty sure it takes more than 1.7G to build Java. > > But then how can java people pretend it has any usefulness, besides > filing disks? ^^ Rightful cobol successor, then See yesterday's dilbert... http://dilbert.com/strip

Re: updating -current fail

2013-07-19 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:22:47PM -0400, Chris Smith wrote: > /usr/bin/Mail -> /usr/bin/mail > /usr/bin/mailx -> /usr/bin/mail > ===> usr.bin/make > install -c -S -s -o root -g bin -m 555 make /usr/bin/make > install -c -o root -g bin -m 444 /usr/src/usr.bin/make/make.1 > /usr/share/man/man1/ma

Re: Java on OpenBSD 5.3

2013-07-19 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:06:16PM -0600, Jack Woehr wrote: > openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > >On 19. juli 2013 at 3:17 PM, "Matthew Dempsky" wrote: > >>plenty of disk space left in /usr/local (my ports are in /usr/local/ports). > >> > >> > >>/dev/wd0h 3.7G1.8G1.7G52%/usr/loca

Re: Compilers in OpenBSD

2013-08-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:19:11PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: > A few of our developers have, over the years, become unafraid of gcc, > and able to investigate issues, backport fixes, and fix or work around > bugs: I'll only mention niklas@, espie@, etoh@ and otto@, and hope the > few others will fo

Re: libfuse - is it real ?

2013-08-06 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 04:04:51PM +0200, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > So this means time for ntfs-3g, zfs and more (maybe also xfs and jfs?) > should be quite near : > Il giorno 06/ago/2013 15:47, "Gleydson Soares" ha > scritto: Some of us are actually curious to see eventual perf measuremen

Re: EuroBSDCon 2013

2013-08-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 08:07:58PM +0400, Loganaden Velvindron wrote: > I would be great if someone could record the OpenBSD videos for > EuroBSDCon 2013 and post > them on youtube. > > I'm particularly interested in the Y2038: Going long long on time_t > to cope with 2,147,483,647+1 talk. > > N

Re: Freetype and Fontconfig on OpenBSD

2013-08-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:17:38PM +0100, eat...@hush.com wrote: > Hi there, as you can presume I new to OpenBSD (but not a newbie at > all) and I like well rendered fonts [...] > http://openports.se searching for the packages freetype and > fontconfig, but, I could not find the > fontconfig but f

Re: What should we look before buying a laptop?

2013-08-26 Thread Marc Espie
On 2013-08-26 00:42, Stefan Sperling wrote: >If the built-in wireless card doesn't work, your options are to replace >it with a supported card or get a supported USB-based one. If you shop >around for used minipci cards or USB wifi sticks with names matching >the ones listed in driver man pages, yo

Re: A suggestion for snapshots

2013-09-06 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 03:14:44PM +0300, Lars Engblom wrote: > For example in this moment, as I write this, Firefox can not be > installed in a new system installed from snapshots, as the packages > are compiled against an older snapshot (amd64) Known issue. > If there are just space on the ftp s

Re: A suggestion for snapshots

2013-09-06 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 01:19:02PM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 06:59:29PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > > There are also bottlenecks in fanning out from the actual build machines. > > Ports bulk builders are aware of the issues. These take time to so

Re: Modern C++ Compiler for OpenBSD

2013-09-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:40:19PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I'd like to use some C++ language features that are relatively new. > They include intializer lists, rvalue references and regex (and > perhaps a lambda on occasion). > > Does anyone have a C++ compiler recommendation for OpenBSD?

Re: OpenBSD crypto and NSA/Bruce Schneier

2013-09-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:58:12AM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Re-evaluation and auditing is very much a part of the general OpenBSD > development process (see eg http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html and > http://www.openbsd.org/security.html, with links therein) already, > but I wouldn't b

Re: OpenBSD crypto and NSA/Bruce Schneier

2013-09-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:49:46AM +0200, Martin Schröder wrote: > 2013/9/11 Marc Espie : > > Second, low hanging fruit. > > > > There's so much crappy software and hardware out there that you have to be > > REALLY paranoid to think the NSA would target us. I mea

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 03:09:48PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > A completely other thing is to conclude that two *arbitrary* pieces of > data are the same only because they have the same hash. Arbitrary > means here that the one was not a copy of the other. And this is what > rsync seems to do

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 04:13:41PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Marc Espie wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 03:09:48PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > A completely other thing is to conclude that two *arbitrary* pieces of > > > data are the

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 04:13:41PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Is there an alternative for downloading the repository without the > conjecture? Use ftp. That way, you will get rid of those pesky 128 bits checksum, and only rely on your TCP/IP to be reliable. I'm pretty sure the built-in che

Re: How does one use adduser in OpenBSD (stuck in"Enter username[]" loop)?

2013-09-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 09:28:07PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Brian McCafferty wrote: > > On 09/14/13 18:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> > > > > Just in case you didn't notice, when you first install you should have mail. > > $mail > > It will describe reading "

Re: pkg_add hung?

2013-09-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:42:51AM -0400, Richard Thornton wrote: > > So am I safe to ^C this process and try again? I don't want to corrupt > > the package database since I'll probably not be able to fix it. The package database is *very* resilient. First, the pkgtools operate in such a way as to

Re: fvwm in base [was: "X -configure" segmentation fault]

2013-09-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 08:12:53PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > Hi, > > On 15 September 2013 11:48, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > > James Griffin writes: > > > >> * Thomas Adam [2013-09-12 10:17:56 +0100]: > >> > >>> On 12 September 2013 06:10, Carson Chittom wrote: > >>> > Zoran Kolic wri

Re: Feedback about Desktop Environments

2013-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:39:58PM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: > Was really enjoying Gnome 3 but it got a bit sluggish on the > hardware I was using at the time, so headed for something more > light-weight. As a lot of you probably know, there's been a big jump in gfx in current, both for Intel a

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 05:46:26PM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:25:58PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > Raimo Niskanen wrote: > > > > > A resembling application is the Git version control system that is > > > based on the assumption that all content blobs can b

Re: Feedback about Desktop Environments

2013-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 03:18:28PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013-09-16, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > You can use hotplugd(8) to simulate an auto-mounter for known USB disks. > > hotplug-diskmount (in packages) saves a bit of time writing a script for this. > Or there's amd(8) of course..

Re: Feedback about Desktop Environments

2013-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 06:49:37PM +0200, Jes wrote: > On 16/09/13 15:25, James Griffin wrote: > >* Jes [2013-09-16 14:43:48 +0200]: > > > >>Hi all: > >> > >>I use during so long time KDE3. Nowdays I prefer xfce4. Gnome3 is a bit > >>ugly for me. I prefer WMs that integrate the file browser and ot

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 05:52:27PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Marc Espie wrote: > > > A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. > > > > "weakness" in a cryptographic setting doesn't mean *anything* if > > you're using it as a pure checksum

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 08:16:50PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Marc Espie wrote: > > > > >From a checksum I expect two things: (1) the pre-images of elements > > > in the range have all similar sizes, > > Why ? This makes no sense, and is in contradiction

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 07:23:07AM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > In the case of rsync the hash is applied to strings of a fixed lenth. > In this case the input is finite and we can argue with cardinality. > Just imagine the set finite strings mapped to a single element in the > range. If all the

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-17 Thread Marc Espie
a known hash value there may be weaknesses > > in cryptographic hash functions, but this is not what rsync nor Git > > does, as Marc Espie pointed out in this thread. > > You have strings A and B, and you know only that hash(A)=hash(B): what > is the probability that A=B? 2^-160?

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 03:28:11PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Marc Espie wrote: > > > > You have strings A and B, and you know only that hash(A)=hash(B): what > > > is the probability that A=B? 2^-160? > > > > No, that's never the problem.

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 04:16:47PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Intentionally I left the problem generic. Is the probability near to 1? YES it is near to 1. Your way to phrase mathematical problems is BOGUS. You can't do probability without formulating a set of complete hypothesis. Your way

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 09:25:55PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Henning Brauer wrote: > > > * hru...@gmail.com [2013-09-16 21:33]: > > > It confirms that it supposes: A=B if hash(A)=hash(B). > > > > which is fine even with a relatively poor hash like md5 when the size > > is also checked. >

Re: general ports question

2013-09-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 06:16:20PM -0400, Richard Thornton wrote: > So if one has a 5.3 release system running, but finds a desired package in > say 5.1, will pkg_add work on this, assuming I adjust the PKG_PATH to point > to a 5.1 package folder? Or will doing this cause other instabilities? The

Re: Verified OS concerns

2013-09-19 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:14:37PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a general purpose OS with the > basic reliability of my car, Actually, it looks more and more like the reverse is coming true.

Re: Way too many crashes with recent snapshots (non-HTML-version)

2013-09-19 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:44:20PM +0200, Stefan Wollny wrote: > Send a second time as this webmail-programm changed to HTML again... > this mail should be better to read. > > Hi there, >   > I have this ancient IBM/lenovo T60 with me while working off-site. This > machine used to be a reli

Re: Way too many crashes with recent snapshots (non-HTML-version)

2013-09-21 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 11:26:31AM -0700, Ryan Freeman wrote: > laptop has yet to freeze since radeondrm officially in-tree, it was a bit > shakey during the initial radeondrm tests, but those weren't even public > in the first place. > > my Thinkpad T60 does not have an option to switch between r

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-22 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 03:28:24PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > There are some tools in the ports tree, like ports-readmes, that fulfill > the same purpose but make use of the infrastructure to do a better job. > http://ports.su/ is based on this. ports-readme-dancer packages it all as a sim

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-22 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 01:31:21PM +1000, Rod Whitworth wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:34:15 +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > > >On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 03:28:24PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > >> There are some tools in the ports tree, like ports-readmes, that fulfill >

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:32:20AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > To update packages: pkg_add -iu (-i is for interaction to selection flavors > of pkg's and -u is for update). Must be run with privileges, i.e. sudo or > root user. You don't need -i in most cases these days, pkg_tools default to

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:25:57AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > * Marc Espie [2013-09-23 12:22:47 +0200]: > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:32:20AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > > > To update packages: pkg_add -iu (-i is for interaction to selection > > > flavors

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:11:17PM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: > On 09/23/13 22:54, Marc Espie wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:25:57AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > >>* Marc Espie [2013-09-23 12:22:47 +0200]: > >> > >>>On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:32:20

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:10:34PM -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > On 2013-09-23 12:54, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:25:57AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > > > * Marc Espie [2013-09-23 12:22:47 +0200]: > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 23,

Re: No console output on 5.4-Current

2013-10-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 05:36:22PM -0400, Bryan Chapman wrote: > Just installed the Oct 3rd snapshot on my desktop. During the boot > process it loses console output and just shows a blank screen. The > screen doesn't go into power saving - just no output. At first I though > the machine froze,

Re: No console output on 5.4-Current

2013-10-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 07:38:56AM -0400, Bryan Chapman wrote: > On 10/10/13 05:34, Marc Espie wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 05:36:22PM -0400, Bryan Chapman wrote: > >>Just installed the Oct 3rd snapshot on my desktop. During the boot > >>process it loses console ou

Re: No console output on 5.4-Current

2013-10-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 02:27:28PM +0200, David Coppa wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Bryan Chapman > wrote: > > > Thanks -- installing the firmware package resolved the issue. I just > > assumed that the firmware updater would grab it if needed. > > Indeed, fw_update needs to be fi

Re: OpenBSD site SSL

2013-10-12 Thread Marc Espie
On 2013/10/11 22:42, John Darrah wrote: > Hi. Would it be possible to get SSL on the OpenBSD website(s)? > It would be just a couple lines to change in nginx.conf/httpd.conf. > SSL certificates are free from Startcom and cheap from other vendors. > It would be really nice to have, even if it's not

Re: porter's handbook - pkg-readmes

2013-10-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:28:44AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013-10-18, Gabriel Guzman wrote: > > +Does my package need a readme? > > +A package may require special instructions to run on OpenBSD, or > > +additional files may need to be downloaded before the port will work > > +proper

Re: How to find a file's list of package

2013-10-20 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:49:27PM +0200, Alex Naumov wrote: > Hello, > > does anybody know how to find a list of files for some package? > For example, I would like to know which files contains > "athn-firmware-1.1p0" package. More generally, install pkglocatedb, then you'll be able to look for

Re: OpenBSD maintenance compared to FreeBSD

2013-10-30 Thread Marc Espie
The only way to know is to try.

Re: Similar tool as poudriere for OpenBSD

2013-11-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 06:58:10PM +0100, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > "C. L. Martinez" writes: > > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Vigdis wrote: > >> On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:37:17 +, > >> "C. L. Martinez" wrote: > >> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> Exists some tool in OpenBSD similar to

Re: OT, .. but eCommerce?

2008-12-13 Thread Marc Espie
There are oodles of plugins for drupal for ecommerce sites. I have mostly not ported these because I don't have the usage for it, but it's generally very easy to do (put it under sites/all/modules, check that it works, package). I remember a framework called Hdndel based off catalyst (maybe withou

Re: package integrity, security and checks. .... where are they ?

2008-12-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 05:30:32PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, spamtester spamtester wrote: > > > It does not matter what faith one places in the pki or webs of trust > > (gpg/pgp style). Most linux distributions have had their packages > > signed for years (for example at r

Re: XBox360 streaming?

2008-12-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 01:06:15PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Edd Barrett wrote: > > Has anyone suceeded in streaming video to their xbox from an OpenBSD server? > > > > I have a port of pupnp, which i used with ushare. Sure, the xbox could > > see the share, but

Re: package integrity, security and checks. .... where are they ?

2008-12-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:53:01AM +0100, Martin Schrvder wrote: > 2008/12/15 Marc Espie : > > Heck, we're further along the curve than most others. If you look closely at > > > OpenSUSE has signed packages and signed repos for years. So have many > other Linux dist

Re: package integrity, security and checks. .... where are they ?

2008-12-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 05:21:30PM +0100, Martin Schrvder wrote: > 2008/12/17 Marc Espie : > > We think it's worse to sign packages than not to sign them if you don't have > > a fairly strict process that ensures you have a correct chain of trust. > > Agree

Re: package integrity, security and checks. .... where are they ?

2008-12-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:19:09PM +1100, spamtester spamtester wrote: > I know that i have the freedom to do this. However, my original question > might have been a bit to bitchy. The issue here is that, openbsd devs donate > their good time making packages. Which is great. However, if they could

Re: Users of Opera -- Stability?

2008-12-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:41:05AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: > > Hey All, > > > > I wanted to check with any users here that are using the opera web > > browser. Can you please mention what Window Manager you use? I > > am trying to un

Re: package integrity, security and checks. .... where are they ?

2008-12-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:46:10AM -0600, Matthew Weigel wrote: > Like Marc said, signing packages when the process doesn't protect the > integrity of the signatures, the source used to compile the binaries > that are signed, and the binaries themselves, you are providing a > misleading sense

Re: gd without xbase?

2008-12-19 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:40:38PM -0600, Aaron Martinez wrote: > I am running 4.4 stable on i386 for the sole purpose of running nagios. > So that I could get visualizations on the statusmap, nagios docs say that > gd is required. > > I have performed just a minimal install, bsd, base44, etc44

Re: emul.linux not playing well with bsd.mp

2009-01-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 03:55:33AM -0500, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I was just wonderinig if people have noticed that kernel emulator for > linux binaries > is not playing well with bsd.mp kernel. It was previously observed by > Aron Tsu that > Opera was locking on bsd.mp. In my experience this is

Re: fetch package dependencies

2009-02-02 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:02:59PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 02:01:03PM +0100, Dorian B|ttner wrote: > >is there an easy way to fetch a package along with it's recursive > >dependencies? Scenario is: > >eee904ha does not have network access at all right now.

Re: fetch package dependencies

2009-02-02 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:28:57PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Marc Espie wrote: > > As far as shared libs go, there's nothing wrong with adding the new shared > > libs > > in your soekris /usr/lib: grab base*.tgz xbase*tgz, > > unt

Re: fetch package dependencies

2009-02-03 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:57:39PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:00:21PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:02:59PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 02:01:03PM +0100, Dorian B|ttner wrote

Re: ssl v2 question

2009-02-04 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:21:49AM -0500, Stuart VanZee wrote: > I am sorry if this seems like a dumb question. > > Recently my boss has been informed that supporting SSL Version 2 > would make us non-compliant with PCI (Payment Card Industry) > certification. My guess would be that (being on top

Re: Thinkpad R61 support

2009-02-08 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 08:37:43AM -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 07:39:24PM -0200, Christiano Farina Haesbaert wrote: > > Hello there, I'm considering buying a thinkpad R61, if someone has any > > information on the hardware support for it I would appreciate. > > > >

Re: Thinkpad R61 support

2009-02-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:08:33PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: > On Monday 09 February 2009 01:59:56 Michiel van Baak wrote: > > On 01:04, Mon 09 Feb 09, Marc Espie wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 08:37:43AM -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > > > > On Sa

Re: user-friendliness and netbsd

2009-02-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:56:18PM +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote: > Next time when I'm in a condition similar to that in vienna after > p2k8, I'll test *all* installers of *all* existing operation systems. > I'm sure I'd managed to do a perfect installation of OpenBSD; but > pirofti@ may disagree ;-

Re: Where is "Secure by default" ?

2009-03-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:11:12AM +0100, Artur Grabowski wrote: > Always attribute to malice even that which has been explained by > stupidity. Stupidity is easy to fake. Surprisingly enough, most often it's not. I've met more actual stupidity than faked one.

Re: autoconf 2.62 build problem

2009-03-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:24:04PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-03-10, Sebastian Anding wrote: > > I tried to build subversion and ruby from ports current. While building > > autoconf 2.62 > > autoconf 2.62 needs newer m4 (in base). you have two choices: > > 1. run an unsupported

Re: creating release and kernels

2009-03-13 Thread Marc Espie
So what you actually want is create a ramdisk that recognizes NTFS. you're not interested in a running kernel, but a boot kernel, right ? Look around in distrib, that's where the instructions to build boot kernels happen. You need to tweak/clone the right ramdisk for your purpose. Of course, ther

Re: Makefile .SUFFIXES

2009-03-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:10:33PM -0400, Stuart Cassoff wrote: > Must .SUFFIXES declarations come before targets? Yes. That's one of the many subtleties of Makefiles. There are a few things which must occur in a specific order to work. For a line such as: .c.o: to be parsed as a SUFFIX rule, y

Re: Parallel build in ports - make -j4

2009-03-24 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:44:43AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-03-23, Pedro de Oliveira wrote: > > Thanks for that, it worked! > > > > I added the following to my root .profile: > > export PARALLEL_BUILD=Yes > > export MAKE_JOBS=4 > > N.B. this does not work with all ports. > > If y

Re: Parallel build in ports - make -j4

2009-03-24 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:40:33AM -, Pedro de Oliveira wrote: > Yes, both the kernel and userland compile with make -j. Works 99% of the time. There are still races in make build, some times it can fail...

Re: fetching packages from mirrors with pkg_add uses uninitialized value

2009-03-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:03:57AM +0100, soko.tica wrote: > Hello list, > > I am encountering a strange behavior during the attempts to fetch > packages by pkg_add from ftp and http main servers and several > mirrors, both for 4.3 and 4.4 (releases). > > FTP connection is refused both from main

Re: Parallel build in ports - make -j4

2009-03-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:18:40PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Marc Espie wrote: > > > > > export PARALLEL_BUILD=Yes > > > > export MAKE_JOBS=4 > > > > > > N.B. this does not work with all ports. > > > > Yep, does not work

Re: pkg_add via proxy

2009-04-04 Thread Marc Espie
A few months ago, we added the ability for ftp to handle proxies with password, so this ought to work more or less... Of course, you need to be able to get a package list, so you will have to use http mirrors (since the nlist command won't go through proxies, as far as I know).

Re: why thread is not usable in perl5 of OpenBSD6.4?

2018-11-27 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 09:32:33PM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 1:57 AM 岡本健二 wrote: > > > I have to use thread on the perl5 of OpenBSD 6.4. > > However, it was disabled on the distribution. > > > > Hmm, is this something that worked in previous releases, or is somethin

Re: Core Dev?

2018-12-04 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 12:17:20AM +, Ahmad Bilal wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Can anyone tell me, > Is Antoine Jacoutot a core openbsd developer? > > And this is his account (not a impersonator?) > https://github.com/ajacoutot/aws-openbsd > > Should I take

Re: Core Dev?

2018-12-04 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 09:52:09AM +, Ahmad Bilal wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Thanks guys. I did see a reference of his name here and there. I just wanted > to make sure (and thus asked it here). You're probably a *very* occasional user of OpenBSD. (note t

Re: Core Dev?

2018-12-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 07:29:31PM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 2:47 AM Marc Espie wrote: > > > (note that Antoine is the 2nd most prolific contributor to OpenBSD in terms > > of # of commits) > > > > Sure, Marc, but that's just bec

Re: Core Dev?

2018-12-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 02:30:50PM +, Ahmad Bilal wrote: > - I honestly didn't intend to call him (Antoine) or anyone else for the > record, bad in anyway. I think my homework was lacking, that is the issue > here. But please don't bash me, for not knowing who Antoine is. You know I > could

Re: install portslist?

2018-12-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 03:40:05PM +0100, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello, > > I now see this: > > odin$ pwd > /usr/ports > > odin$ make search key=texmacs > Please install portslist > pkg_add portslist > *** Error 1 in /usr/ports (Makefile:80 '/usr/local/share/ports-INDEX': @exit > 1) > > odi

Re: pkg_add source code modification

2018-12-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 07:31:48PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > That's typical for pkg_add(1). There are few programs in the tree - > even including unmaintained legacy stuff - where it is harder to > find anything. In pkg_add(1), code for each object is typically > scattered across many files,

Re: is there anything like pdfnup or pdfjam?

2019-01-22 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 04:50:08PM +, rsyk...@disroot.org wrote: > Dear list, > > I want to print a pdf, but with two pages put > on one physical page. > > On linux, pdfnup or pdfjam can do it. On OpenBSD they do as well. > I cannot find these for OpenBSD. Because you don't know how to loo

Re: sound volume reduction - chromium

2019-03-08 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 09:09:59AM -0600, joshua stein wrote: > On Fri, 08 Mar 2019 at 10:46:24 +0200, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone observe some sound volume reduction when chromium is > > displaying some specific tabs? > > > > I am using mpv in xterm with some internet rad

Re: XSS vuln in cvsweb

2019-03-15 Thread Marc Espie
and the > > second one was on software I got from OpenBSD ports. Not sure if I should > > be writing this to the ports mailing list though. > > > > I have written Marc Espie with a patch that I produced for cvsweb, but > > haven't heard from him in 11 hours so

Re: httpd: need root privileges

2019-03-20 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 08:38:18PM +1300, worik wrote: > Yes. > > But is the error message: > > httpd: need root privileges > > Accurate? This is the paradox of modern secure code. You need to start stuff as root because you want to do stuff in startup code that you can only do as root, namel

Re: Determining if a package is installed (regardless of version)

2019-04-06 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 09:05:37AM -0700, Thomas Frohwein wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 07:27:15AM +, Adam Steen wrote: > [...] > > I should have been more specific, my use case completes the check in two > > steps > > > > 1. find out whats installed, builds a list of packages > > 2. insta

Re: how run pkg_check with a trusted kernel (a bit of forensics) and how to check kernel integrity.

2019-04-06 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 03:24:58PM +, Cord wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to run pkg_check but from a live usb stick. This because I want to > run a trusted kernel. > Maybe I just need to mount the root, mount the other slices and chroot > /bin/ksh ? > Also¹, is there a way to download all the insta

Re: Malloc config became global sysctl in 6.5

2019-04-27 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 12:34:01PM +0700, Igor Podlesny wrote: > On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 12:26, Sebastien Marie wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 12:17:21PM +0700, Igor Podlesny wrote: > > > Previously users could have different behaviour of malloc simultaneously: > > > one in > > > global FS, ot

Re: headphone volume levels cannot be manipulated by mixerctl

2019-04-27 Thread Marc Espie
If you want to be read, configure your email to send normal messages. All I see is "Signed data", and I'm not necessarily going to open attachments to see what you're saying on a public mailing-list.

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