Re: config(8) -x headscratcher

2013-05-06 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:21:06AM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Wojciech A. Koszek >> wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 04:40:58AM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> &g

Re: config(8) -x headscratcher

2013-04-28 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 04:40:58AM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Kimmo Paasiala >> > wrote: >> &g

Re: config(8) -x headscratcher

2013-04-27 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Wojciech A. Koszek >> wrote: >>> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 06:54:11PM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >>>> I

Re: config(8) -x headscratcher

2013-04-27 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Wojciech A. Koszek > wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 06:54:11PM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >>> I'm getting a core dump on 'config -x /boot/kernel/kernel' on 9.1-

Re: config(8) -x headscratcher

2013-04-27 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 06:54:11PM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> I'm getting a core dump on 'config -x /boot/kernel/kernel' on 9.1-RELEASE >> i386. >> >> Assertion failed: (r != &

config(8) -x headscratcher

2013-04-27 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
I'm getting a core dump on 'config -x /boot/kernel/kernel' on 9.1-RELEASE i386. Assertion failed: (r != '\0' && ("Char present in the configuration " "string mustn't be equal to 0")), function kernconfdump, file /usr/src/usr.sbin/config/main.c, line 710. I have double checked that my config file

Re: WORLDTMP on a ram disk

2013-04-20 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On Apr 20, 2013, at 11:55, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> Poking around the /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 I see that there's a variable >> called "WORLDTMP" that seems to set the location for temporary files >> du

WORLDTMP on a ram disk

2013-04-20 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
Poking around the /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 I see that there's a variable called "WORLDTMP" that seems to set the location for temporary files during the world build. My question is now: Is it safe to put WORLDTMP on a ram disk, for example tmpfs(5)? Looking at the build process it seems to me that

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Justin Edward Muniz wrote: >> >> It seems we already have something similar in the ports[1] collection. >> There is also a newer version[2] using Qt4 but it seems more limited. It >> might be worth a look at those first. >> >> [1] ports-mgmt/kports >> [2] ports-mgm

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 14 April 2013 12:15, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools >> do not offer at the moment? > > A GUI. > > That's kind of given :D But does FreeB

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Justin Edward Muniz wrote: >> >> I think GUI front ends to freebsd-update, portsnap, or pkgng would all be >> useful. >> >> One thing I would look into though, is what PC-BSD offers. They may >> already have similar things. >> >> Very interesting, I am checking out

Re: GSOC 2013 project " Kernel Size Reduction for Embedded System "

2013-04-09 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> And yes FreeBSD kernel is huge. doesn't really matter with 1GB or more >>> RAM but yes - it is huge even relative to linux. >> >> >> Ah, any insight as to why? > > my custom compiled kernel: > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8791402 6 kwi 22

Re: considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture

2013-04-02 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Achim Hut wrote: > Am 02.04.2013 12:13, schrieb Kimmo Paasiala: > >> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >>> >>>

Re: considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture

2013-04-02 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > >> Wojciech Puchar writes: >> > Lev Serebryakov writes: >> > > It is not exact so. Some Atoms on some motherboards with some >> > > firmwares are 64-bit CPU. >> > don't kn

Re: Ports: make fails, if DESTDIR path has spaces

2013-04-01 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > On 1 April 2013 17:13, wrote: >>> Try "DESTDIR='/usr/TZ\ ONE'; export DESTDIR". >>> >>> You need to escape the space. >> >> This is '#!/bin/sh' scripting. >> Doing so "fixes" *.mk, but breaks sh => dir simply doesn't exist anymore. >> >> Matthi

Re: considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture

2013-03-31 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 1 April 2013 at 0:48:08 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am writing this email to discuss the i386 architecture in FreeBSD. >> >> Computers are getting faster, but also more memory intensive. I >> can not find a lap

Re: considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture

2013-03-31 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
I think the only ones who are going to object are the users of embedded hardware. Some of them are still using CPUs that are only i586 equivalent. Personally I support the notion. -Kimmo On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing this email to discuss the i386 a

Re: how to force all packets to be ipv4 not v6

2013-03-31 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
If it's just for ssh(1) and scp(1) you can use ssh_config(5) to force the use of IPv4 based on the destination hostname. -Kimmo On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-li...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Mario Lobo writes: > > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:20:17 -0400 > > Aryeh Fried

Re: kern/122838: [devfs] devfs doesn't handle complex paths (like zvol/pool/vms) good

2013-03-25 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > Would like to ask for opinions on this topic... > Please read this PR for context: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/122838 > Especially Jaakko's insightful description of the problem. > > > Original Message ---