Re: Package location

2008-03-03 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 2, 2008, at 23:50, Scot Hetzel wrote: On 3/2/08, Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adding ports to FreeBSD 7 I normally build from source and create a package. With previous versions the created packages went into /usr/ ports/packages/All. However the packages directory was not c

interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Dominic Fandrey
I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with them without trouble by setting BATCH, using portmaster or portconfig-recursive from bsdadminscripts. But I find ports like ghostscript-gpl that open an ncurses dialogue between configure and build stage very annoying. They ar

Current unassigned ports problem reports

2008-03-03 Thread FreeBSD bugmaster
Current FreeBSD problem reports The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. Bugs can be in one of several states: o - open A problem report has bee

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with > them without trouble by setting BATCH, using portmaster or > portconfig-recursive from bsdadminscripts. > > But I find ports like ghostscript-gpl t

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Naram Qashat
RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with them without trouble by setting BATCH, using portmaster or portconfig-recursive from bsdadminscripts. But I find ports like ghostscript-gp

polypaudio

2008-03-03 Thread David Southwell
Hi Hi I have been out of commission for some time due to some health problems. When to ujpgrade and received the forllowing error message can anyone please advise? Thanks david # portupgrade -a Stale dependency: amavisd-new-2.5.3,1 --> p5-DBD-mysql-4.006 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:27:31 -0500 Naram Qashat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RW wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 > > Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with > >> them without trouble by setting BATCH, usi

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Wesley Shields
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:04:57PM +, RW wrote: > On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:27:31 -0500 > Naram Qashat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > RW wrote: > > > On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 > > > Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> I don't mind ports that use the config framewor

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread pjd
Naram Qashat wrote: > > I believe a good example of what he might be talking about is the jdk > ports. > Because of the licensing of those ports, they will bring up an EULA that > you > need to read and then type "yes" afterwards. Even with BATCH set, it > still > stops at that EULA. > Wit

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:27:50 -0500 Wesley Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:04:57PM +, RW wrote: > > IIRC these ports refuse to fetch the distfiles, and ask you to > > fetch them manually from the websites, where you have to agree to > > the terms, they aren't act

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Dominic Fandrey
RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with them without trouble by setting BATCH, using portmaster or portconfig-recursive from bsdadminscripts. But I find ports like ghostscript-gp

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Wesley Shields
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:36:57PM +, RW wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:27:50 -0500 > Wesley Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:04:57PM +, RW wrote: > > > > IIRC these ports refuse to fetch the distfiles, and ask you to > > > fetch them manually from the w

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:12:37AM -0800, pjd wrote: > With me the JDK ports stop and demand I manually download the files, which > is even more irritating Given Sun's licensing requirements, what is your suggestion? mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org ma

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wesley Shields wrote: I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. I'll take that as a bug report :-) Though I'm not sure which way it should default, on BATCH. And does BATCH apply to package install as well?

Re: Package location

2008-03-03 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:39:54 -0800 Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2008, at 23:50, Scot Hetzel wrote: > > > On 3/2/08, Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Adding ports to FreeBSD 7 I normally build from source and create a > >> package. With previous versions the cre

Re: Package location

2008-03-03 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 3, 2008, at 11:43, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:39:54 -0800 Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 2, 2008, at 23:50, Scot Hetzel wrote: On 3/2/08, Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adding ports to FreeBSD 7 I normally build from source and create a pack

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Wesley Shields
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:01:00PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wesley Shields wrote: > >> I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in >> /etc/mail/mailer.conf. > > I'll take that as a bug report :-) I didn't intend for that to be a bug report. :) >

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Philipp Ost
Wesley Shields wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:04:57PM +, RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:27:31 -0500 Naram Qashat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't mind ports that use the config framework.

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Vivek Khera wrote: On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wesley Shields wrote: I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. I'll take that as a bug report :-) Though I'm not sure which way it should default, on BATCH. And does BATCH apply to package install as wel

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 03 March 2008, Mark Linimon said: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:12:37AM -0800, pjd wrote: > > With me the JDK ports stop and demand I manually download the > > files, which is even more irritating > > Given Sun's licensing requirements, what is your suggestion? -- --

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 03 March 2008, Beech Rintoul said: > On Monday 03 March 2008, Mark Linimon said: > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:12:37AM -0800, pjd wrote: > > > With me the JDK ports stop and demand I manually download the > > > files, which is even more irritating > > > > Given Sun's licensing requiremen

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:33:00 -0500 Wesley Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:01:00PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > > On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wesley Shields wrote: > > > >> I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in > >> /etc/mail/mailer.conf. > >

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:01:00 -0500 Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wesley Shields wrote: > > > I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in > > /etc/mail/mailer.conf. > > I'll take that as a bug report :-) > > Though I'm not sure which way it

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:55:52 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RW wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 > > Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I cannot find any policy on interactive ports in the Porters' > >> Handbook. Maybe there aught to be one. > >

Re: interactive ports - the plague

2008-03-03 Thread Dominic Fandrey
RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:55:52 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I cannot find any policy on interactive ports in the Porters' Handbook. Maybe there aught to be one. Setting BATC

Re: polypaudio

2008-03-03 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 3/3/08, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Hi I have been out of commission for some time due to some health problems. > When to ujpgrade and received the forllowing error message > > can anyone please advise? > > Thanks > > david > > # portupgrade -a > Stale dependency: