Re: Updating Make World https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html

2016-09-16 Thread Ben Woods
On Friday, 16 September 2016, Matthew Midgett via freebsd-doc < freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> wrote: > As a newer Freebsd user I was updating from src and I asked Allan Jude > a question on irc about a step and he recommeded that we do "pkg-static > upgrade -f" between steps 10 and 11 on https://www.fr

Re: Wiki: I would like to modify WantedPorts page

2017-01-07 Thread Ben Woods
On 7 January 2017 at 23:59, ?? wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to change the porting status for netdata. > > I've created a wiki account VladimirKobal and confirmed my e-mail. > > Could you grant me permissions to change > https://wiki.freebsd.org/WantedPorts > https://wiki.freebsd.org/

Re: Wiki: WantedPorts addition permission

2017-03-27 Thread Ben Woods
On 22 March 2017 at 08:17, Olzhas Rakhimov wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to add a port request in WantedPorts wiki page, > but I currently don't have edit permissions. > > The application is https://github.com/rakhimov/scram > > My wiki account id: rakhimov > > Thanks, > Olzhas Rakhimov > Hi Olzh

[handbook] Replace mergemaster(8) with etcupdate(8)

2016-03-19 Thread Ben Woods
Hi everyone, I was hoping I could interest a few people into reviewing a patch I have submitted for the handbook, to update the handbook "Chapter 23. Updating and Upgrading FreeBSD" to replace the instructions for using mergemaster(8) with etcupdate(8). I would be grateful if people could have a

Re: Man pages portal

2016-05-14 Thread Ben Woods
On 14 May 2016 at 09:09, Russell Haley wrote: > Is there any reason we can't have our man pages hosted from > man.freebsd.org? It pis... perturbs me ever time I have to go to the > main website to find the link to click. > I'm not sure what you mean. I regularly use man.freebsd.org to read manpa

Re: request

2016-06-27 Thread Ben Woods
On Monday, 27 June 2016, Allan Jude wrote: > On 2016-06-27 12:41, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Mohammad Eslami wrote: >> >> hi. >>> good evening. >>> i did your instructions for install gnome3 on freebsd on my virtual box. >>> but when reboot my machine it doesn't boot gnome. >>>

Re: Wiki: I would like to modify Suspend/Resume page

2016-08-11 Thread Ben Woods
On Thursday, 11 August 2016, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: > Hello. > > I noticed that Suspend/Resume page [1] could be improved in two ways: > > * Link to laptop.bsdgroup.de seems to be dead, it should probably be > removed. > * I would like to add my laptop to Field Data table. FreeBSD works >