Re: Status of portupgrade and portmaster?

2017-10-03 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On 29 Sep 2017, at 15:21, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, the wise Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> What is the current status of portupgrade and portmaster? >> >> I haven't used portupgrade in some time, but what about portmaster? > > Using portupgrade every day and still works great. Tr

Re: cdecl port

2017-05-01 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On 30 Apr 2017, at 19:27, Paul J. Lucas wrote: > ... the all-new cdecl 3.x: > > https://github.com/paul-j-lucas/cdecl > > Thanks. Note that I don’t use FreeBSD myself; I’m just the > author of the new cdecl. > > - Paul It's nice to see someone pick up this useful utility and do a lot of wo

Alternate strategy for ports / portupgrade

2016-12-20 Thread Garance A Drosehn
Hi. gad@FreeBSD here. My life at work and "on the personal front" continues to be a time-consuming morass, so I haven't contributed much to FreeBSD discussions for the last few years. I wanted to bring up a strategy I have used for ports in the threads on "the ports collection has some serious i

Re: What sort of a hog is Ruby?

2016-10-07 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On 7 Oct 2016, at 2:35, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Looks like I need to upgrade it for security issues; so I tried to compile > it from the ports area. > > First it blew out my disk space (the "work" sub-directory), so when I > rearranged a few things to make more room it blew out my swap space! > > O

Re: FreeBSD Port: converters/btoa

2015-08-24 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On 20 Aug 2015, at 20:43, Sakib Alam wrote: > sami.b...@gmail.com > ___ I have no idea what Sakib intended to say about the btoa (binary to ascii) program. But earlier this year I did notice that there's a bug in it if you encode on a 32-bit platform and decode on a 64-bit platfo

Re: shebangfix for /bin/sh

2014-03-14 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On 14 Mar 2014, at 13:08, Steven Kreuzer wrote: > > I am in the process of cleaning up sysutils/DTraceToolkit and I would > like to make use of USES=shebangfix > > However, it looks like on solaris, sh is /usr/bin/sh so I would like > to propose the following change: On my solaris machines, /usr/b

Re: [BRAINSTORM] shebang fixing framework

2013-05-02 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On 4/30/13 6:38 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: Hi all, For a while now: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/51152 we are looking for a framework/helpers to help patching scripts shebang so that they fit where the interpreters is on FreeBSD. We also want to get rid of /usr/bin/perl h

Re: [BRAINSTORM] shebang fixing framework

2013-05-02 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On 5/2/13 10:22 AM, Łukasz Wąsikowski wrote: W dniu 2013-05-01 21:18, Oliver Heesakkers pisze: Op di 30 apr 2013 12:38:21 schreef Baptiste Daroussin: In there you wrote a patch using /usr/bin/env. Why not stick with that? I'm quite fond of this technique as it's clean and portable. Portabi

Re: Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?

2011-07-24 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On 7/24/11 10:20 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: At this point noone is maintaining portupgrade any more and a large number of PRs have been filed against it (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?text=portupgrade). No one has stepped up to do the work to fix these bugs so it is time to offi

Re: saving a few ports from death

2011-04-26 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On 4/25/11 8:28 PM, martinko wrote: Ok, I skimmed through the list of deprecated ports Speaking of which, I haven't noticed the old lists of "FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked broken" and "FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion" show up recently. I

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:08 AM -0600 12/14/07, Paul Schmehl wrote: SInce I've already killfiled Aryeh, I guess we should all killfile you, too. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;

Re: Uggg!

2007-06-01 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 1:14 PM -0600 6/1/07, Warner Losh wrote: The ONLY data corruption that I saw when my laptop died was *ALL* of the +CONTENTS files going away. It seems to have died during the updating of the meta-data for the dvdauthor port. Why all the files of unreleated packages would disappear is a myst

Re: Uggg!

2007-06-01 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 2:06 PM +0300 6/1/07, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: Warner Losh wrote: my portupgrade -a died in the middle. Well, the laptop in my battery died at a bad time. all of my +CONTENTS files are gone. Is there any hope? Dodged that lately. Actually in my case most files were dumped into lost+found