Re: Bulk buils space requirements

2010-10-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:ok, is there a problem if a build is stopped in between? Can it resume :from that point later. :I won't be able to keep this system up for a week continously :-( Once you've done the initial setup you can set it up to pickup where it left off, yah. :... :> unintentionally by performing m

Re: Bulk buils space requirements

2010-10-21 Thread Siju George
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > On Thu, October 21, 2010 2:36 am, Siju George wrote: >> HI, >> >> I got around 250 GB free on my desktop. >> >> I would like to try out a bulkbuild of pkgsrc ;-) >> >> will that space be enough? > > I have some scripts that work as a wra

2.8 release schedule - tentitively Wednesday 27 October.

2010-10-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
We are still scheduled to officially release mid-next week. I will be doing the final the MFCs from master on Sunday (as a lot of fixes have gone in since the branch). All of the big-ticket bugs have been squashed. There are still a few medium-ticket bugs (e.g. Rumko's listen

Re: hammering the drive

2010-10-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
Time tends to wear out drives more than the seeking. Dust and grime from outside that gets through the filter and material from inside the drive itself. Basically just time. You do want to make sure the drive is well anchored (screwed into) the machine, and doesn't experience any

Re: Bulk buils space requirements

2010-10-21 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Thu, October 21, 2010 2:36 am, Siju George wrote: > HI, > > I got around 250 GB free on my desktop. > > I would like to try out a bulkbuild of pkgsrc ;-) > > will that space be enough? I have some scripts that work as a wrapper around the bulk builds I do; this may be more than you need, but I'

Re: No package installation method works

2010-10-21 Thread Torbjorn Granlund
Dylan Reinhold writes: On 10/20/2010 11:30 PM, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: > Someone replied privately: > >The problem here is that you are using make instead of bmake (which >needs to be used for pkgsrc things). > > Ah, this indeed work. I'll try to remember this when I, in s

Re: hammering the drive

2010-10-21 Thread Alex Hornung
On 21/10/10 11:05, Pierre Abbat wrote: > dogla# dschedctl -l > dschedctl: open(/dev/dsched): No such file or directory > > Am I missing something? > Yes. dschedctl doesn't exist anymore. Please take a look at the manpage. The right way to do it now is via sysctl. Regards, Alex

Re: hammering the drive

2010-10-21 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday 21 October 2010 02:32:43 Alex Hornung wrote: > On 21/10/10 04:44, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I can't say much about the wear and tear of the drive. Regarding the > unresponsiveness when Hammmer functions are running I'd suggest you give > dsched_fq a try, the fair-queuing disk scheduling pol

Re: No package installation method works

2010-10-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hi, * Dylan Reinhold wrote: > > What if make gave a 'hint' when run in /usr/pkgsrc. > > Something like > # make > make called in /usr/pkgsrc/www/zope, did you mean bmake? > make: no target to make. While I like the idea of your patch, it will not work if someone uses another location to store t

Re: Bulk buils space requirements

2010-10-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
* Siju George wrote: > HI, > > I got around 250 GB free on my desktop. > > I would like to try out a bulkbuild of pkgsrc ;-) > > will that space be enough? > is reading > > http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/bulk.html > > enough or should I be knowing some dfly specific things? This is clearl

Re: No package installation method works

2010-10-21 Thread Dylan Reinhold
On 10/20/2010 11:30 PM, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: Someone replied privately: The problem here is that you are using make instead of bmake (which needs to be used for pkgsrc things). Ah, this indeed work. I'll try to remember this when I, in some months, need to install some additional pac

Re: OpenOffice is not available from pkgsrc for dragonfly and binary package errors

2010-10-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
* Siju George wrote: > > What version of pango have you got installed? > > mine is > > pango-1.28.1 = I have the same version installed. Cheers Matthias