Re: building a "shrinked" NetBSD-System via build.sh (optional: on Linux-host)

2017-05-23 Thread Alistair Crooks
Another option would be to complete the build the sets as usual, and to use src/distrib/utils/embedded/mkimage to make the final image for you. Best, Alistair On 21 May 2017 at 11:16, Sad Clouds wrote: > On Sun, 21 May 2017 16:39:57 +0200 > Marcus Osdoba wrote: > >> Hello list, >> >> recently,

Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-09-28 Thread Alistair Crooks
On 28 September 2017 at 08:40, Jeff_W wrote: > % cd /pkgsrc/foo/pkg-A > % sudo make clean && sudo make replace > > If the above breaks pkg-C: > > % cd /pkgsrc/foo/pkg-C > % sudo make clean && sudo make clean-depends && sudo make update Orthogonal to this discussion - pkgsrc was modified to use ju

Re: Curious/strange calendar entry

2018-08-13 Thread Alistair Crooks
Unknown, but not the first enquiry about this: See also https://minnie.tuhs.org//pipermail/tuhs/1999-August/000109.html On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 at 18:51, Paul Goyette wrote: > Got this entry today: > > 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 > > > This is presumed to be some sort of

Re: fpr(1), asa(1)

2019-01-05 Thread Alistair Crooks
Last time I proposed this, I was told asa (at least) was mandated by POSIX On Sat, 5 Jan 2019 at 04:01, wrote: > Hi folks, > > these programs are relics intended for running old fortran on old > machines. > fortran carriage-control is no longer a thing as of fortran 2008. > netbsd no longer ship

Re: Portable Makefile ideas

2019-04-01 Thread Alistair Crooks
On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 at 22:15, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:47:02 +0100, Benny Siegert > wrote: > Subject: Re: Portable Makefile ideas > > > > Perhaps take a look at CMake. I found it to be easier than expected, > > and it is common enough that package systems like pkgsrc support

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-08 Thread Alistair Crooks
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 07:52, Ronald Georgia wrote: > Same here. I have two 9BETA machines using zfs. Both have a mirrored pool > of two disks. So far things seem to be working. This weekend I will be > testing snapshots and send/receive. > > BTW, nice job with zfs. > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:4

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-08 Thread Alistair Crooks
mountpoint=/home z/home This is all on 9.99.something, BTW, but near enough to 9.0_BETA On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 10:55, Ron Georgia wrote: > How did you move your home directory? Did you create /tank/home then > symlink the /home -> /tank/home? > > > > *From: *Alistair Crooks > *D

Re: Switching pkgsrc to git repository

2020-05-04 Thread Alistair Crooks
Hey Bob, pkg_info -b will not work the way it used to (since there are no general equivalents of RCS Ids for git), and that is what joerg is working on right now, and why we have the following paragraph in the 2020Q1 announcement - USE_PKG_ADMIN_DIGEST enables SHA256 digests for file identificat

Re: Automatic mirror selection.

2013-05-23 Thread Alistair Crooks
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 04:55:41PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Dmitriy Tochansky wrote: > > Is there any mechanism to choose mirror automaticly from list? > > I don't know. > I've often wondered similar for FreeBSD sites too, > maybe this is something we could share among the BSDs ? > > It

Re: Free Pascal 2.6.2 package for NetBSD?

2013-05-24 Thread Alistair Crooks
Hi Tim, On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:55:37PM +, Tim R wrote: > I was looking around for a NetBSD package for Free Pascal 2.6.2 but to no > avail. > I was able to download a NetBSD build from the Free Pascal repository. > No issues so far. I was just wondering if anyone is looking into making a

Re: Starting service (particularly ntpd) in background

2013-05-25 Thread Alistair Crooks
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 12:46:19AM -, David Lord wrote: > On 25 May 2013 at 22:51, Rhialto wrote: > > > I think the way ntpd is started the way it is, is to get proper > > timestamps in logfiles, and no time jumps when services are running. > > So it is likely put as early in the boot process

Re: net/aget : project contacts not reachable?

2013-06-04 Thread Alistair Crooks
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 06:51:47PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > I find net/aget - a download accelerator - suitable for my download > requirement. > > I just find that, the command line option to provide a different local > filename to the downloaded file (-l) does not work. > > I can perhaps write a

Re: Various size of (Project) ideas for NetBSD and pkgsrc

2013-09-29 Thread Alistair Crooks
[+Cc: tech-pkg - agc] Thanks for the list of suggestions - very useful and thought-provoking! On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:09:53AM +0900, Ryo ONODERA wrote: > (2) Create multiple packages from one pkgsrc package directory > For example, pkgsrc/fonts/harfbuzz has icu option and theoretically > non-i

Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?

2014-04-05 Thread Alistair Crooks
On the topic of a live/lightweight installs, check out httpdev: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/othersrc/external/bsd/httpdev/Makefile?only_with_tag=MAIN which uses rump, and ReFUSE to mount a remote ISO on a remote webserver. It would save all that hassle with downloading huge imag

Re: cksum new parameters -q and -r

2014-08-05 Thread Alistair Crooks
On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 10:27:18AM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > Hello, > ? > I've been porting a piece of software for personal usage from Linux > and FreeBSD to NetBSD. > > I was looking for a GNU md5sum equivalent that works like `cksum -q` > in FreeBSD [1] and OpenBSD [2] "-q Only print the

HEADS-UP: freeze for pkgsrc-2014Q4 is on

2014-12-15 Thread Alistair Crooks
Just a quick note that we're now in a freeze for new functionality and infrastructure changes for pkgsrc. We expect to exit from the freeze in 2 weeks. If you're in any doubt, http://www.pkgsrc.org/is-a-freeze-on/ may help :) Thanks for your understanding, Alistair

[HEADS-UP] pkgsrc-2015Q1 freeze is now on

2015-03-15 Thread Alistair Crooks
Just a quick note that we're now in a freeze for new functionality and infrastructure changes for pkgsrc. We expect to exit from the freeze in 2 weeks. No changes to infrastructure (anything under pkgsrc/mk and pkgsrc/pkgtools) from here on in, please, and please discuss any changes to major pack

Re: Dunce awk question

2015-09-25 Thread Alistair Crooks
Using your version string above, the following works for me: % echo 'Model: HGST HTS721010A9E630, Rev: JB0OA3J0, Serial #: JR10046P1D5UXN' | awk '/Model/ { print $3 }' HTS721010A9E630, Some rules I usually go by: 1. Piping through grep and awk is almost always wrong - awk has some fine regexps, y

Re: How to install NetBSD on a USB stick

2016-02-13 Thread Alistair Crooks
http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/mkmemstick Best, Alistair On 13 February 2016 at 21:48, Gary Duzan wrote: > In Message <20160214054548.070dd115...@xen1.duzan.org>, >"Gary Duzan" wrote: > > =>In Message <20160214052012.ga...@internode.on.net>, > => Brett Lymn wrote: > => > =>=>On Sun, Feb 14, 201

Re: NetBSD 7.0 i386 mkdep fails

2016-06-02 Thread Alistair Crooks
I don't think it's anything like that, I didn't reply before because I didn't know what the problem was, nor how to fix it. I'm sure there are others who did exactly the same as me. Best, Alistair On 2 June 2016 at 19:55, Mayuresh wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 10:02:16PM +0530, Mayuresh wrot

Re: bozohttpd support for SNI

2016-09-30 Thread Alistair Crooks
Personally, I'd love to have support for SNI (and multiple -Z paths per site too) - I'd use it daily. In fact, I was just bemoaning that fact yesterday, but am not best-placed to do anything about it right now (yes, I suck :() Best, Alistair On 30 September 2016 at 13:37, J. Lewis Muir wrote: >

Re: Setting ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES in /etc/mk.conf

2021-04-16 Thread Alistair Crooks
I'm difficult, and prefer to repeat with the var name e.g. ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+= cc-by-sa-v3.0 ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+= cc-by-sa-v4.0 ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+= cc-by-v4.0 makes it easier to grep for 'ACCEPT.*cc-by', for example. (I sometimes have different pkgsrc trees, with different license needs/want

Re: Captain a chroot management system

2021-08-03 Thread Alistair Crooks
Thanks, this looks really interesting... On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 at 23:21, Julien Savard wrote: > Hi, > I previously wrote here about a jail-like feature for NetBSD. > Unfortunately, I'm not coming with such software (yet). However, I did > create my own "chroot management system" over the last few m

Re: Running docker containers with podman (on NetBSD!)

2021-09-05 Thread Alistair Crooks
On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 14:04 wrote: > Hi all, > > I added a package to pkgsrc called Podman. > It's a tool for running OCI containers, and it has the same command line > behaviour as the docker command line argument. > > There are some selling points for it over docker, but the most important > f

Re: Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged

2024-01-29 Thread Alistair Crooks
As RVP mentioned, this is a SMOP, but if you're looking for an out of the box utility, checkout djb's setuidgid (available in pkgsrc/sysutils/daemontools) https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/setuidgid.html On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 04:10, RVP wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: > > >

Re: can't find visudo

2024-03-31 Thread Alistair Crooks
On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 at 07:00, Henry wrote: > I installed sudo via pkgsrc. To make use of it, though, I need > visudo, but I can't find it anywhere. There's a man page for visudo, > but it doesn't say where it is. > > To find out the files that were installed when you installed the package, you

Re: Mailing List Oddity

2024-05-23 Thread Alistair Crooks
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 11:58 Andrew Ball wrote: > Why is there a regional-london mailing list but no regional-uk? -Andy > > I think mainly because a number of us were working in London, and with the occasional guest visitor swanning in, enlightening us, then exiting stage left, we used regional-