Re: Systemic problem causing patch errors?

2017-04-23 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Mark Linimon wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 01:47:16PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: close to 50 ports fail to build because of patch errors I'm sure you have already checked this, but ... ... when I get this on my powerpc64 machine it is inevitably that I have run o

Systemic problem causing patch errors?

2017-04-23 Thread Lars Eighner
indicate some kind of systemic error. How can I identify what I am doing wrong? -- Lars Eighner portsu...@larseighner.com ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any

Kneeslapper

2012-09-18 Thread Lars Eighner
Subversion build: "Many useful scripts will be installed ..." Ha, ha, ha. They are all incomprehensible gooblety-gook on a level seldom seen outside of sendmail configuration files. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX

What's with mjpegtools

2012-09-18 Thread Lars Eighner
Portupgrade says multimedia/mjpegtools is marked IGNORE (needs SDL) But I have mucho SDL: sdl-1.2.15_2,2; sdl_gfx; sdl_net; sdl_sound; dgen_sdl; linux-f10-sdl; linux-f10-sdl_image; linux-f10-sdl_mixer; gstreamer-plugins-sdl... What SDL does mjpegtools need? -- Lars Eighner http

Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS

2012-09-07 Thread Lars Eighner
and with Clang and becomes more and more unmaintainable. What exactly is the motivation again for moving from things which work like cvsup and gcc to things that are broken or lame like subversion and clang? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX

Cannot upgrade php5-simplexml

2012-08-24 Thread Lars Eighner
se I can't find any mention in UPDATING now. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscri

Tweetless (summary)

2012-07-05 Thread Lars Eighner
). I do not know what bleeding edge features may be sacrificed in this rollback, but the result is twitter will work. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Unable to build "graphics/ImageMagick" port

2012-06-19 Thread Lars Eighner
entire build log if necessary. This is a known bug. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To

Xscreensaver conflicts

2012-06-13 Thread Lars Eighner
t, you can reinstall xscreensaver without complaints. I grepped UPDATING for xscreensaver without any hits and do not find this documented. I suspect the conflicts line in the Makefile xscreensave-gnome-hacks is not accurate. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191

A bad, bad, unhelpful response Re: avogadro

2012-06-03 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Franci Nabalanci wrote: make failed for science/avogadro If you need help, I've got his number. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebs

using i386 ports on amd64

2012-06-02 Thread Lars Eighner
ckage(s) x 2 core(s) cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: bad linux-f10-flashplugin version

2012-05-31 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Robert Huff writes: Lars Eighner writes: > It appears to me that linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.235 is > broken and the result is 200 errors on many sites. Works for me on: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Mar 11 08:20:02 EDT 2012

bad linux-f10-flashplugin version

2012-05-31 Thread Lars Eighner
It appears to me that linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.235 is broken and the result is 200 errors on many sites. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: portdowngrade and meta ports

2012-05-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Chris Rees wrote: On 24 May 2012 19:43, Lars Eighner wrote: I *must* revert xorg to a point at which changing ttys works. portdowngrade does not seem to work with metaports -- apparently it does not revert the dependencies - which is what a metaport is all about. So

portdowngrade and meta ports

2012-05-24 Thread Lars Eighner
, but actually has not changed anything. Any suggestion on how to get xorg back and how far back it was that switching ttys worked. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebs

KDE4 - Hellhole of conflicts

2011-09-16 Thread Lars Eighner
Just saying. No really, what to do about the kdelibs4 kdebase4-runtime conflict? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Remove dependency on xz - How?

2011-09-16 Thread Lars Eighner
rk as the slash notation might suggest it would because -s does not accept a 'empty argument' I am afraid to remove the xz package because it seems to me it would delete the base system xz -- and I don't want to make world if I can avoid it. Is there some sensible way to d

Re: suggestion for pkgdb from ports-mgmt/portupgrade: add more explanation

2011-09-03 Thread Lars Eighner
the production copy. Either it should be meaningful to the user or it should be eliminated. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: suggestion for pkgdb from ports-mgmt/portupgrade: add more explanation

2011-09-03 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Doug Barton wrote: On 09/02/2011 14:58, Lars Eighner wrote: The main thing here, of course, is that ports uses "dependency" in the exact opposite of its normal English sense (just as twitter uses "following" in the exact opposite of its normal Englis

Re: suggestion for pkgdb from ports-mgmt/portupgrade: add more explanation

2011-09-02 Thread Lars Eighner
ut maintaining it would be a big pain. If you want brain-dead, you can try Fedora 15 or its role-model hero Windows. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Zgv on AMD64 - Will computer blow up

2011-08-31 Thread Lars Eighner
So zgv 5.9 in the 8.2R ports is marked i386. I commented the ONLY_FOR_ARCHS line. It compiles and seems to run like a charm in amd64. Will my computer blow up? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: FreeBSD Port: mysql-server-5.5.9

2011-03-10 Thread Lars Eighner
rmlessly. Error messages you may get if you fail to mysql_upgrade, in my experience, vary from not pertinent to completely misleading. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.

Re: editors/joe + textproc/aspell: dependency problem?

2010-03-08 Thread Lars Eighner
ly recorded in the package database. Am I doing something wrong, or is there a bug somewhere? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-07 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Doug Barton wrote: Lars Eighner wrote: Believe me, if I can get back to my printer, camera, and mp3 player all working (which last occurred about 6.2 or so) I'll never upgrade again. Of course it is kind of lonely when your release is orphaned, which happens in the

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-07 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 19:29:24 Lars Eighner wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 17:38:40 Lars Eighner wrote: It's hard to resist the sales pitch (really, USB will work again on 8.0, we promise! [but we are goi

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 17:38:40 Lars Eighner wrote: It's hard to resist the sales pitch (really, USB will work again on 8.0, we promise! [but we are going to trash your modem driver]) --- sooner or later one has to wise up. If you actually kno

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
elf. It's hard to resist the sales pitch (really, USB will work again on 8.0, we promise! [but we are going to trash your modem driver]) --- sooner or later one has to wise up. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTI

Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On 06 August 2009 pm 19:10:07 Lars Eighner wrote: Would these things build if I deleted all 1619 installed packages and started from scratch, or are the circular gotchas built-in with python and qt? do not even ask this question if you have a

Ports completely and permanently hosed

2009-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
this stuff is put together by object-oriented people who aren't really used to the expectation that stuff will, you know, actually work. Would these things build if I deleted all 1619 installed packages and started from scratch, or are the circular gotchas built-in with python and qt? -- La

Re: What does py25 mean?

2009-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Florent Thoumie wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: What does py25 mean? I can't seem to upgrade about 40 ports (the old versions of which now seem to be broken) evidently because the build of py25-gtk-2.13.1 fails with the message    py25-

Re: devel/dbus-qt4 won't build

2009-08-06 Thread Lars Eighner
NG it turns out it won't install without devel/qt4-assistant being updated. Does anyone check these things before they are committed? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@f

Re: devel/dbus-qt4 won't build

2009-08-05 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Doug Barton wrote: Lars Eighner wrote: Okay after it didn't work a few times I did portupgrade -fr qt4\* and still the make of devel/dbus-qt4 fails thus: What happens if you do this: cd /usr/ports/devel/dbus-qt4 make clean make config make Don't know, bu

devel/dbus-qt4 won't build

2009-08-05 Thread Lars Eighner
nsource-src-4.5.2/tools/qdbus/q dbus. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/dbus-qt4/work/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.5.2/tools/qdbus. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/dbus-qt4. Wed Aug 05 19:38:12 -bash4.0:ttyva:root debranded/usr/ports/devel/dbus-qt4# -- Lars Eighner http://www.lar

What does py25 mean?

2009-08-04 Thread Lars Eighner
But howcome something called py25-cairo needs Python 2.6? What does that py25 on the front mean? Doesn't it mean python 2.5? If it doesn't mean that, what does it mean? If it does mean that, then howcome it needs python 2.6? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800

Re: ansi colors in ports

2009-03-31 Thread Lars Eighner
their time than forcing pretty-pretty on a compile that should run only once. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

HPLIP can't run setup after upgrade

2009-02-24 Thread Lars Eighner
ause changes in umass (making reading from the camera impossible) and whatever is wrong with hplip making reading from printer card reader impossible is the more serious thing. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTI

Re: Sox in 7.1 broken or corrupt?

2009-02-14 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Lars Eighner wrote: It appears to me the audio/sox port is broken. During configure the screen breaks up with a bunch of ANSI garbage. This happens again with the compile which seems to halt in sox.c with the message EOF in backtick operator

Sox in 7.1 broken or corrupt?

2009-02-13 Thread Lars Eighner
t, in spite of the odds being against this as it passes the hash checks. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: Summary of xorg -> 7.4 with nvidia driver without hal

2009-02-12 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Olivier SMEDTS wrote: 2009/2/12 Lars Eighner : Summary of experiences upgrading xorg -> 7.4 with nvidia-driver without hal I have had many misadventures in upgrading to xorg 7.4 with nvidia-driver. This is a summary of what worked. Most of these things are not origi

Summary of xorg -> 7.4 with nvidia driver without hal

2009-02-12 Thread Lars Eighner
ng and editing manually will also work. 8. reboot. Reports are that you cannot load the new nvidia kernel module manually with kldload (although this may have worked in the past). 9. If the keyboard in X still does not work, you may have to force reinstallation of xf86-input-keyboard. This wo

Re: xorg hal dbus

2009-02-10 Thread Lars Eighner
t being fixed was somewhat overly optimistic. Someone suggested the mouse problem could be fixed by deleting a file in hal, but did not specify which file. Evidently hal not only kills the mouse, but kills using the numeric key pad for a mouse (or perhaps kills most of the keyboard --- enough of the k

Re: Xorg disaster

2009-02-06 Thread Lars Eighner
files. I use the nv driver BTW -- perfectly -- in the old (downgraded to) X. yes xorg 7.3 seems to work perfectly. The display would work but the mouse wouldn't with 7.4. I suspect the fix for the hal-moused battle does not work nv. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.

Xorg disaster

2009-02-05 Thread Lars Eighner
went away, but there are tons of "Generic Event Extension" missing messages and no mouse --- what is more the accessibility keypad mouse thing doesn't work at all. I can't pay my bills and I can't get to another computer to use someone else's browser to do it. --

Conflict subversion sitecopy

2008-09-07 Thread Lars Eighner
It appears to me from 7-STABLE, that there is a conflict between sitecopy and subversion as that sitecopy insists on neon26 and subversion requires neon28. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: linux f8: futex op 128 not found

2008-06-16 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Lars Eighner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:26:28 -0500 (CDT)): Evidently I hosed linux compatibility in the attemp to upgrade from fc4 to f8. No, you didn't. :) From which date is your -stable, or bett

linux f8: futex op 128 not found

2008-06-16 Thread Lars Eighner
is more I can see linux_futex .c and .h in the system source. Nonetheless, I made /usr/src clean and rebuilt the kernel. And then I reinstalled linux f8 again. Same result. I'm not sure if this is a port problem or a system problem, but perhaps some has some suggestions. -- Lars Eighner

Libslang Libslang2

2008-03-13 Thread Lars Eighner
o far as I can tell. libslang and libslang2 both say in their makefiles that they conflict with one another. Is this really so? can slrn be made to work with libslang2? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX

Re: www/apache22 seems to have a patch problem.

2007-09-20 Thread Lars Eighner
directory and cvsup again to be certain that you do not have old patch debris in the port. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: gramps fails to run

2007-09-06 Thread Lars Eighner
ython->python2.5 in /usr/local/bin? If not, I'd install one. 2) I'd try adding PYTHON_DEFAULT_WERSION=python2.5 to /etc/make.conf and rebuilding gramps. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___

Re: HPLIP ugen

2007-08-31 Thread Lars Eighner
pecific ports grab a device if they can before the general port gets a shot --- except it doesn't work out so well in this case, so I have no idea whether a fix is on the horizen. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT

Has it ever been possible to build all of gnome or gnome2 at once?

2007-08-30 Thread Lars Eighner
Today it muine that won't build, but it always something. And make readmes are still broken. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Make readmes broken?

2007-08-27 Thread Lars Eighner
ns for the individual ports directories are 755 (exactly as set by installation) and the files within, which readmes only need to read, are 644 (exactly as set by installation). -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX

Gnome2 broken in evolution-exchange

2007-08-23 Thread Lars Eighner
evolution-exchange will still be broken). Just ignore the gnomelogalyzer nonsense and read the real output of the configure script. It doesn't explicitly name the missing port in devel, but you can figure it out and install it (it will drag in most of evolution). -- Lars Eighner http://www.

How to turn off Firefox upgrade tab

2007-02-20 Thread Lars Eighner
ior. Also, is there a way to disable both new tabs and new windows (i.e. force reuse the same window always)? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing

Cannot compile Firefox

2007-02-13 Thread Lars Eighner
! www/firefox (firefox-2.0_2,1) (linker error) ---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed with a freshly cvsup'd ports tree I forced a reinstall of gettext and gt20 (although portupgrade thought they were current) but the attempt to upgrade firefox ended i

Re: x11-toolkits/py-gnome-extras dependency

2006-07-15 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 20:58 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: I have a 6.1 system. I attempted to upgrade gnome, which according to UPDATING did not this time require the upgrade script. This was pretty hairy with portupgrade -a, but almost everything

x11-toolkits/py-gnome-extras dependency

2006-07-15 Thread Lars Eighner
the dependency is wrong in x11-toolkits/py-gnome-extras? -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http

loop in ezm3?

2006-07-08 Thread Lars Eighner
che --no-create --no-recursion loading cache ../config.cache checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___