Re: Is it time to dump disklabel and use GPT instead?

2010-08-04 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 01:00:37PM -0500, Chris Turner wrote: > elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: >> that is incompatible with everything else on the market. You're not going >> to get Linux to change because of BSD, it's the other way around. At least > > man socket() LoL :-)

Re: linuxulator update

2010-01-29 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:10:15PM -, Alex Hornung wrote: > Hi, > > With our outdated linux emu (linuxulator) we can't run most of the software > that can run on FreeBSD, such as newer jre/jdk, ... ( see bug report 1141 > [1] for more details). > > To actually be able to update the linuxulato

Re: 2.0 packages being removed from avalon

2009-09-23 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:24:39PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I don't see any major problem keeping as much as 2-years worth of > packages around. Security issues do crop up but from the point > of view of someone having to make the choice between spending > 5 minutes adding an

Re: 2.0 packages being removed from avalon

2009-09-23 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:26:31PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Vincent Stemen wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:05:40 -0400 (EDT), Justin C. Sherrill wrote: >>> Since 2.4 is out, and we'll have binary pkgsrc packages for it soon, the >>> 2.

Re: 2.0 packages being removed from avalon

2009-09-22 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:05:40 -0400 (EDT), Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > Since 2.4 is out, and we'll have binary pkgsrc packages for it soon, the > 2.0 packages are due to be removed. If this will cause you trouble, > please speak up. > > The plan is to keep packages for the current release (2.4) an

Re: pkgsrc: libidn (The problem nearly all the GNU libraries)

2009-03-22 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 03:24:53PM +0200, Hasso Tepper wrote: > Petr Janda wrote: > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.2: Shared object "libidn.so.11.5.39" not found, > > required by "konqueror" > > That's how pkgsrc works at the moment. I agree that it should handle the > situation much better, but ... T

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-02-28 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:54:40PM +, Jost Tobias Springenberg wrote: > Is there any chance of this moving forward ? > As mentioned in my previous post I really need this feature :). If you > need any help or the like I would be more than happy to help and get > this project on track again! >

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-02-17 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:54:40PM +, Jost Tobias Springenberg wrote: > Is there any chance of this moving forward ? > As mentioned in my previous post I really need this feature :). If you > need any help or the like I would be more than happy to help and get > this project on track again! >

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-01-09 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 07:33:17AM +0100, Sascha Wildner wrote: > Vincent Stemen schrieb: >> Yes, in the traditional layered Unix approach, this tool was >> specifically designed to be easier to automate and to write interactive >> front ends than the existing tools. It w

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-01-08 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:12:45AM +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Vincent Stemen wrote: >> If you like what you see and want to include the tools, Chet said he >> will look into adding disklabel64 support. Also, I will go ahead and >> work on the

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-01-08 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:38:45PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :I could put up a binary if anybody wants to play with it. If you guys > :are interested in taking it over, making it an official part of > :Dragonfly, and updating it for the new disk labels, etc, we were > :considering going ahead

Re: fdisk implementation [read this before deciding what to do]

2009-01-02 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:49:21AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > A few possible gotchas regarding fdisk and disklabels. DragonFly has > a 64 bit disklabel feature now (disklabel64), as well as gpt support, > but lacks boot support for either. > > I think the fdisk utility needs t

Re: keeping pkgsrc up to date

2008-07-21 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:31:26PM -0700, walt wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: >> :What do you use to keep your pkgsrc tree up to date? >> :Anonymous cvs does work but is pretty slow. >> :The cvsup mirrors seem to be rather busy. >> :I used the mercurial repo at >> :http://hg.scode.org/mirror/pkgsrc

Re: lpd is broken

2008-07-18 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:53:43PM -0700, Dylan Reinhold wrote: > Vincent Stemen wrote: >> Sorry guys. Another problem you may not want to propagate to the 2.0 >> release. >> >> lpd works for local printing but is broken for remote printing. >> .SNI

lpd is broken

2008-07-17 Thread Vincent Stemen
Sorry guys. Another problem you may not want to propagate to the 2.0 release. lpd works for local printing but is broken for remote printing. We tested by pointing the dragonfly client to a dedicated print server as well as a dragonfly machine running lpd. On the client, lpr does not return and

Re: Hammer on snapshot cd's

2008-07-15 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:35:38AM +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: >>One interesting thing I've found on GCC-4 is that the callgraph >> analyzer >>will cross procedure boundaries for all procedures in that particular >>source file. It can actually detec

Re: Hammer on snapshot cd's

2008-07-15 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:43:29PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:22:34PM -0500, Vincent Stemen wrote: > > Compiling with "gcc -o query -g -Wall main.c" produced no warnings at > > all. But when I added #include "query.c" to th

Re: Hammer on snapshot cd's

2008-07-15 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:40:42PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: >One interesting thing I've found on GCC-4 is that the callgraph analyzer >will cross procedure boundaries for all procedures in that particular >source file. It can actually detect that error is left uninitialized >in

Re: Hammer on snapshot cd's

2008-07-15 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:34:10PM +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: >> :.. >> :> : >> :> :>That is very odd. Maybe there's a 64-bit arithmatic problem >> somewhere >> :>w/ gcc-34. >> : >> :Hi Matt, >> : >> :the following patch fixes the problem for me. Not s

nfs: bad net address bug remains

2008-07-14 Thread Vincent Stemen
Another issue that you might want to look into before the release. When running on the snapshot from yesterday, (1.13.0-DEVELOPMENT #0: Sun Jul 13 00:54:52 CEST 2008) when a host cannot resolve, we get this error # mount 10.0.0.10:/home /mnt nfs: bad net address 10.0.0.10 If the host in DN

Re: DragonFlyBSD 2.0 RELEASE SCHEDULE / livelocked limit engaged error

2008-07-14 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:33:04AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: > On 7/14/08, Vincent Stemen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:40:45AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > The release is scheduled for Sunday 20-July-2008! We have about a

Re: DragonFlyBSD 2.0 RELEASE SCHEDULE / livelocked limit engaged error

2008-07-13 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:33:04AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: > On 7/14/08, Vincent Stemen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:40:45AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > The release is scheduled for Sunday 20-July-2008! We have about a

DragonFlyBSD 2.0 RELEASE SCHEDULE / livelocked limit engaged error

2008-07-13 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:40:45AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > The release is scheduled for Sunday 20-July-2008! We have about a week > left! > > Now is the time for people to list their must-haves and would-likes > for the release! Please use this thread. I'll start it off:

Re: Help getting Canon LiDE 30 USB scanner to work

2008-06-11 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:37:56PM -0700, walt wrote: > > I didn't change or configure anything when building sane-backends or > libusb, > so the defaults worked okay for me, and sane-find-scanner is linked against > libusb. > >> Because the sane-usb manual says to remove any kernel usb scanner dr

Re: Help getting Canon LiDE 30 USB scanner to work

2008-06-11 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:49:57AM -0700, walt wrote: > > I finally got my canoscan 670 working, but on -current not -release. > The kernel uscanner support is compiled in so the scanner appears as > /dev/uscanner0. > > If you have the chance to try -current it might give a clue where your > proble

Re: Help getting Canon LiDE 30 USB scanner to work

2008-06-10 Thread Vincent Stemen
New information: It still does not work, but I appear to be a step closer. I compiled a new kernel without uscanner. Same result as before with or without uscanner.ko loaded. Compiled and installed a new libusb-0.1.12nb2 package from pkgsrc. Same result. Compiled and installed a new sane-backe

Re: New mirroring tool / cvsup alternative

2008-06-10 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 07:24:38AM +0200, Nicolas Thery wrote: > 2008/6/10 Vincent Stemen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:20:55AM -0600, Vincent Stemen wrote: > >> Hi. > >> > >> I just thought I would let you guys know, I went ahead and

Re: New mirroring tool

2008-06-09 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:20:55AM -0600, Vincent Stemen wrote: > Hi. > > I just thought I would let you guys know, I went ahead and put up > a simple web page for *mirror*. > > http://hightek.org/mirror In the process of updating our dcvs repository today with *mirror* and

Help getting Canon LiDE 30 USB scanner to work

2008-06-09 Thread Vincent Stemen
We had this scanner working once before with an earlier version of Dragonfly but do not seem to be having any luck now. sane-find-scanner says it found the scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x220e [CanoScan], chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:/dev/usb1:/dev/ugen0 but sca

Re: cpdup work heads-up

2008-04-11 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:32:42PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :I have used cpdup a few times. Today I read some more in the manpage. > :I see it can do synchronize mirrors remotely. This sounds great. > : > :Has anyone done any comparisons or benchmarks between it and rsync? I am > :especia

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-02-28 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:13:25PM +, Bill Hacker wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I spent more time then I should have perfecting the low level > > infrastructure, trying to build a base upon which all the other > > work could occur. > > > >

New mirroring tool

2008-02-01 Thread Vincent Stemen
Hi. I just thought I would let you guys know, I went ahead and put up a simple web page for *mirror*. http://hightek.org/mirror

Re: rsync vs. cvsup benchmarks

2008-01-30 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:54:29AM +, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > As I understand, cvsup maintains state between updates using checkout > files in a separate "sup" directory. If you are missing that > directory, or it does not correspond to your "aged" tree, cvsup won't > do very well. You sho

rsync vs. cvsup benchmarks

2008-01-29 Thread Vincent Stemen
I have some benchmark test results comparing rsync to cvsup. I did 12 client side tests over the last week. 5 against TheShell.com, 3 against AllBSD.org, and 4 against chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de. All tests were mirroring the DragonFly BSD source repository. The tests were done with various aged re

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-28 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 07:10:58PM +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Sd?vtaker wrote: > >Maybe we should consider a wiki migration, if the one we using doesnt > >have a lot of basic features that almost every other has. > > Which basic features are missing? > > >Im not a big experienced

Re: Some mail from dragonfly.users being rejected

2008-01-28 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:24:52AM +, Bill Hacker wrote: > Vincent Stemen wrote: > >Hopefully tmda will white list based on the sender address. > > Tmda does tend to eventually earn a net reduction in traffic. > > One way or another... > > Bill True :-). It did

Re: Some mail from dragonfly.users being rejected

2008-01-28 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:11:18PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Hmm. We're just running normal sendmail here. But if the mailing > list has several addresses that run through your server and your > server is trying to do a backchannel for each one in parallel, you > could be hit

Some mail from dragonfly.users being rejected

2008-01-28 Thread Vincent Stemen
Hi. I subscribed to the dragonfly.users mailing list yesterday. I received the confirmation messages and I have received both postings since them from Justin C. Sherrill. However, the two replies to him and 3 additional postings have been rejected from my mail server because crater is rejecting

Re: New mirroring tool

2008-01-26 Thread Vincent Stemen
There turned out to be a couple of changes I wanted to make right away. o Fixed typos in README and mirror usage. o You can now specify a mirror file directly, without having to use option setting syntax. If a command line argument exists as a file, it is assumed to be a mirror file.

New mirroring tool

2008-01-25 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-21, Vincent Stemen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, before you decide anything, I should let you know that I decided > to go ahead and write a general purpose rsync based mirroring tool, both > for keeping our own dcvs copy updated and for doing convenient rsync vs

Re: cvsup: theshell.com missing dragonfly-cvs-doc

2008-01-22 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-23, Peter Avalos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:41:20PM +, Vincent Stemen wrote: >> Any idea why cvsup.theshell.com is missing the dragonfly-cvs-doc collecti= > on? >>=20 >> I get >> Server message: Unknown collection

cvsup: theshell.com missing dragonfly-cvs-doc

2008-01-22 Thread Vincent Stemen
Any idea why cvsup.theshell.com is missing the dragonfly-cvs-doc collection? I get Server message: Unknown collection "dragonfly-cvs-doc" The doc directory is there via rsync. It is not missing from other servers such as cvsup.dragonflybsd.org and cvsup.allbsd.org.

Re: rsync and new mirroring tool (was cvsup)

2008-01-21 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-21, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vincent Stemen wrote: >> sites += crater.dragonflybsd.org::dragonfly_cvs > > could you please not mirror off crater? Matt's link is quite resource > constrained and should mainly be us

Re: rsync and new mirroring tool (was cvsup)

2008-01-21 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-21, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We could just add rsync targets in our /usr/Makefile in addition to > all the cvsup/pkgsrc targets already in there. > > What, people didn't know we install a Makefile in /usr? Well, now you > do! > >

Re: cvsup

2008-01-19 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-19, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --020108070307000905080907 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >

Re: cvsup

2008-01-19 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-18, Bill Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vincent Stemen wrote: > > *snip* > >> >> Unless I am overlooking something obvious, > > It is not likely so many projects would be using cvsup for as long as > they have if the rsync advantage was t

Re: cvsup

2008-01-18 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-18, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vincent Stemen wrote: >> *** using cvsup >> >> cvsup -L 3 ./DragonFly-cvs-supfile 155.08s user 69.40s system 40% cpu >> 9:14.73 total > > I for sure didn't use cvsup f

Re: cvsup

2008-01-18 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-16, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You know that you can get a listing with rsync? > > sweatshorts % rsync chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de:: No I did not know that. I have been using rsync for transferring files with ssh but had not studied the features for talking to

Re: rename patch (was Re: renaming the current working directory (cwd))

2008-01-17 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-14, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >:I applied the patches to the development kernel and tested. So far as >:I can tell, that fixed the problem. >: >:Thank you very much, Matt, for the very fast action. >: >:- Vince > > Cool. Keep testing it. I'll plan on doing some

Re: cvsup

2008-01-15 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-15, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes. There are a couple of mirrors which serve the cvs repo via rsync. > For instance use chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de. There are more, I guess. Thanks. I just checked the list, but most of the sites say they only mirror _Dail

Re: cvsup

2008-01-15 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-15, Joerg Sonnenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:23:27PM +, Vincent Stemen wrote: >> Is the repository available via rsync and, if not, I am curious as to >> why not? Rsync is robust, popular, portable, and written in C. > >

Re: rename patch (was Re: renaming the current working directory (cwd))

2008-01-13 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-12, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is my proposed patch. Please try it out. It needs some testing so > I'll commit it in a week or so. The HAMMER bit may wind up getting > committed sooner but I think it will be compatible with the original > namecach

Re: renaming the current working directory (cwd)

2008-01-12 Thread Vincent Stemen
On 2008-01-12, Bill Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vincent wrote: >> Hi. >> >> If my cwd gets renamed by another process, it disappears out from under >> me. >> >> To reproduce: >> >> $ mkdir zzz1 >> $ cd zzz1 >> >> In another shell: >> >> $ mv zzz1 zzz2 >> >> Back in the first shell: >>