Re: netbsd 9 upgrade experience

2020-06-20 Thread Martin Husemann
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 08:13:42PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > This is the easy one. postinstall expects sources. You can use the -s > option. I unpack etc.tgz and xetc.tgz to /usr/netbsd-etc and pass that. > Amazingly, this is even in the manual, but it doesn't really say that > you need a

Re: CDN readme out of date

2020-06-20 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Greg Troxel wrote: Perhaps it should say they are updated t.i.w. Troublemaker. -- "No matter how big the problem is, you can always run away from it." Dom Irrera

Re: netbsd 9 upgrade experience

2020-06-20 Thread Greg Troxel
r0ller writes: > 1) After system upgrade done via usb installer I got the message that > postinstall fixes failed for: fontconfig gid x11. When I tried to > execute postinstall afterwards, I got the error message that /usr/src > is not a directory. This is the easy one. postinstall expects

Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

2020-06-20 Thread Dave McGuire
On June 20, 2020 6:06:33 PM Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2020-06-20 18:52, Dave McGuire wrote: >> On 6/20/20 5:01 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote: >>> Great. ..and how many VAXen do have 128Mbytes of RAM? >> >>We have several VAXen at LSSM that have 128MB of RAM or more. One of >> them, a VAX-7000,

Re: Pre-seeded Mercurial-Clone available?

2020-06-20 Thread Matthias Petermann
Hello Greg, Am 20.06.2020 um 21:10 schrieb Greg A. Woods: Did you actually try doing what I said worked for me in the other thread? First fetch the initial "bundle", then unbundle it into your local filesystem, then do a checkout, then set up the upstream pointer, and finally do a pull to

Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

2020-06-20 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2020-06-20 18:52, Dave McGuire wrote: On 6/20/20 5:01 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote: Great. ..and how many VAXen do have 128Mbytes of RAM? We have several VAXen at LSSM that have 128MB of RAM or more. One of them, a VAX-7000, has 1.5GB. :) So do we at Update. But let's face it. It's a very

Re: cvs better than git?

2020-06-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 2:09 PM Gua Chung Lim wrote: > > * Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Mercurial? no go: python, please not. Just for this reason, maybe it would > > be perfect if written in equivalent C/C++! And please, don't cite me > > "rust"... even worse. Core things should be written with

Re: cvs better than git?

2020-06-20 Thread Gua Chung Lim
* Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Mercurial? no go: python, please not. Just for this reason, maybe it would > be perfect if written in equivalent C/C++! And please, don't cite me > "rust"... even worse. Core things should be written with core tools. > > Maybe some sort of "anonymous checkout" of

Re: CDN readme out of date

2020-06-20 Thread Greg Troxel
"J. Lewis Muir" writes: > To whoever can fix the CDN readme: > > The CDN readme > > https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/README I have updated /pub/NetBSD/README on ftp.netbsd.org I'm not really sure about these things updated every three weeks :-) Perhaps it should say they are updated t.i.w.

Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

2020-06-20 Thread Dave McGuire
On 6/20/20 1:08 PM, emu wrote: >> We have several VAXen at LSSM that have 128MB of RAM or more. One of >> them, a VAX-7000, has 1.5GB. :) > > I wouldn't call that a "standard" collection, by any means ;-) Perhaps not, but honestly most of the VAXen at the LSSM were a part of my personal

Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

2020-06-20 Thread Dave McGuire
On 6/20/20 5:01 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote: > Great. ..and how many VAXen do have 128Mbytes of RAM? We have several VAXen at LSSM that have 128MB of RAM or more. One of them, a VAX-7000, has 1.5GB. :) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: cvs better than git?

2020-06-20 Thread Sad Clouds
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 17:06:26 +0200 Andreas Krey wrote: > > However, a local repo has a big advantage: the possibility to > > quickly determine the status. > > ...or do logs, diffs, commits, checkouts, merges... Microsoft developed "VFS for Git" in order to scale it for large repos. Because

Re: cvs better than git?

2020-06-20 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 6/17/20 10:48 PM, Sad Clouds wrote: Over the years, I worked on different projects and even though I work for the same company, we keep switching from one VCS to another. First we used Subversion, which was OK. it is not perfect, it has bugs, but it is "ok", exactly... git has some

Re: cvs better than git?

2020-06-20 Thread Andreas Krey
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:18:17 +, Riccardo Mottola wrote: ... > Local repositories are a mess.. Don't you hate that if you have a set of > local changes you cannot just "git pulL" without doing a commit for a > merge? 'git stash; git pull; git stash pop' (with a usabiliby quirk when there are

Re: Recommended web browser?

2020-06-20 Thread Petr Topiarz
Also, you can use Seamonkey. It is perfectly stable and works on stable and current very well on Net 8.2 and Net 9.0. cheers Petr Dne 20. 06. 20 v 12:59 nia napsal(a): On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 10:39:27PM -0700, Salil Wadnerkar wrote: SeaMonkey works fine. If you are on NetBSD current, you can

Re: cvs better than git?

2020-06-20 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! On 6/17/20 1:27 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: I know I'm in a very small minority here, but personally I hate git. I sortof suspect I will not like hg either, and when the switch happens, it might just mean I'll stop using NetBSD. The whole idea of local repositories and then trying to

Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

2020-06-20 Thread Holm Tiffe
matthew sporleder wrote: > > git clone with --depth 1, over http (instead of ssh), and with a few > simple settings changes will make it work inside of 128M. > > I did it a few years ago. Great. ..and how many VAXen do have 128Mbytes of RAM? What exactly is a "real VAX"? Regards, Holm --

Re: Recommended web browser?

2020-06-20 Thread nia
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 10:39:27PM -0700, Salil Wadnerkar wrote: > SeaMonkey works fine. > If you are on NetBSD current, you can use newer (based on Rust) versions of > Firefox. Huh? Recent firefox is fine on 9.0, on amd64 and aarch64. armv7 does not have enough address space to build a rust

Pre-seeded Mercurial-Clone available? (was: Checking out src with Mercurial)

2020-06-20 Thread Matthias Petermann
Hello everybody, while I was able to successfully clone the pkgsrc and xsrc via anonhg, I still bite my teeth at src. As already described in one of my previous e-mails, I tried to limit the number of changesets called up at the same time with --rev, so that I don't lose everything in the

Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

2020-06-20 Thread Roy Marples
On 20/06/2020 07:16, Dave McGuire wrote: On June 20, 2020 12:01:40 AM Roy Marples wrote: On 19/06/2020 23:08, Dave McGuire wrote: On 6/19/20 5:09 PM, matthew sporleder wrote: I personally think running such an old and inefficient computer is, literally, immoral when a modern $30 machine can

Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

2020-06-20 Thread Dave McGuire
On June 20, 2020 12:01:40 AM Roy Marples wrote: > On 19/06/2020 23:08, Dave McGuire wrote: >> On 6/19/20 5:09 PM, matthew sporleder wrote: >>> I personally think running such an old and inefficient computer is, >>> literally, immoral when a modern $30 machine can emulate it perfectly using >>>

Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

2020-06-20 Thread Mayuresh
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 10:01:35PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > (c) modern change tracking tools try to track changes to whole sets of > files at once, so if you have lots of files, and lots of history, > this combinatorial problem can sometimes bite at a bad time for the > user of a