Re: Users and groups kept after a port deinstallation

2010-05-23 Thread RW
On Sat, 22 May 2010 23:21:35 -0400 jhell wrote: > You being the originator of the thread called "Users and groups kept > after a port deinstallation" which implies to me that you had a > problem with users left behind on a system am I correct ? No, and the OP and I have different names and emai

Re: Users and groups kept after a port deinstallation

2010-05-23 Thread RW
On Sun, 23 May 2010 07:57:36 +0400 Anonymous wrote: > > You don't have to remember, just look at the UID/GID values, > > ordinary users start at 1001, ports create UIDs < 1000. > > You're presuming non-ordinary users are created only by ports > framework. That's not always the case. I may want

Re: ncftp broken for more than 6 months

2010-05-23 Thread Helmut Schneider
Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:30:20PM +, Helmut Schneider wrote: > > Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:09:01PM +, Helmut Schneider wrote: > > > > Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:49:06AM +, Helmut Schn

Update java for Firefox-3.6.3

2010-05-23 Thread Jerry
It has been several months now since Firefox-3.6.3 was released into the ports system. Has a viable version of Java been created to work with this version of Firefox? I am unable to locate any information in regards to this on the FreeBSD web page. -- Jerry freebsd-ports.u...@seibercom.net Discl

Re: Porting SANE backend 1.0.21 to FreeBSD 7.2

2010-05-23 Thread Mark Terribile
Warren, > > If this is the wrong place, please be gentle!  I need > to get a Canon 8800F scanner running on FreeBSD 7.2 .  > SANE's latest version is said to support this scanner. > > sane-backends 1.0.21 showed up in ports this morning... I'm sorry to be further trouble, but I've tried portupg

Re: Porting SANE backend 1.0.21 to FreeBSD 7.2

2010-05-23 Thread Mark Terribile
Warren, > > sane-backends 1.0.21 showed up in ports this > morning... > > I'm sorry to be further trouble, but I've tried portupgrade > and pkgdb -FU followed by portupgrade and even though the > INDEX-7 file indicates that the sane-backend version is > 1.0.21 I keep getting 1.0.20 downloaded.

Re: Porting SANE backend 1.0.21 to FreeBSD 7.2

2010-05-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Terribile writes: > Warren, > >> > sane-backends 1.0.21 showed up in ports this >> morning... >> >> I'm sorry to be further trouble, but I've tried portupgrade >> and pkgdb -FU followed by portupgrade and even though the >> INDEX-7 file indicates that the sane-backend version is >> 1.0.21 I

Re: Porting SANE backend 1.0.21 to FreeBSD 7.2

2010-05-23 Thread Mark Terribile
Lowell, --- On Sun, 5/23/10, Lowell Gilbert > > Warren, > > > >> > sane-backends 1.0.21 showed up in ports this > >> morning... > >> > >> I'm sorry to be further trouble, but I've tried > portupgrade > >> and pkgdb -FU followed by portupgrade and even > though the > >> INDEX-7 file indicates t

Re: Porting SANE backend 1.0.21 to FreeBSD 7.2

2010-05-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Mark Terribile wrote: sane-backends 1.0.21 showed up in ports this morning... I'm sorry to be further trouble, but I've tried portupgrade and pkgdb -FU followed by portupgrade and even though the INDEX-7 file indicates that the sane-backend version is 1.0.21 I keep getti

Re: Users and groups kept after a port deinstallation

2010-05-23 Thread jhell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 23 May 2010 02:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: In Message-Id: <4bf8c4f8.9090...@infracaninophile.co.uk> On 23/05/2010 04:47:49, jhell wrote: But if a port can install a user there is no reason that it can not uninstall a user via pw(8) that is

Re: Users and groups kept after a port deinstallation

2010-05-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On May 22, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > OpenBSD has a convention that all system user accounts start with a '_' > character. There are a few accounts in UIDs that have adopted that, but > no great stampede to adopt the idea despite most people agreeing with it. That convention

Re: Users and groups kept after a port deinstallation

2010-05-23 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/23/10 09:24, jhell wrote: That shouldn't actually be to hard. If a utility like the three main upgrade tools that are being used the most right now would export a variable for say "UPGRADING=yes" then the uninstall script could check against that to decide whether or not the port is being

Now OK (Re: cvs commit: ports/arabic/libitl Makefile ports/audio/xmms-infopipe Makefile ports/devel/sfslite Makefile ports/misc/compat3x Makefile ports/textproc/lemmatizer Makefile)

2010-05-23 Thread QAT
audio/xmms-infopipe, which was previously failing is OK after this commit. Thanks for fixing it! A description of the testing process can be found here: http://T32.TecNik93.com/FreeBSD/QA-Tindy/ Thanks for your work on making FreeBSD better, -- QAT - your friendly neighborhood Daemon, preparin

Re: Porting SANE backend 1.0.21 to FreeBSD 7.2

2010-05-23 Thread Mark Terribile
Thanks to help from Warren Block and Lowell Gilbert, I now have the offical ported version of sane-backends-1.0.21 running. Unfortunately, it's behaving the same way as before, apparently not properly recognizing the USB device. It Does anyone have experience using this? Or better yet, some

port installation

2010-05-23 Thread madal 30
Hello here, I am a new freebsd user and would like to know how to install port from link below: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net-mgmt/nav/ There are not much info on howto for this particular package. Any help or guide would be appreciated. M

Re: port installation

2010-05-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:25 PM, madal 30 wrote: > > Hello here, > > I am a new freebsd user and would like to know how to install port from link > below: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net-mgmt/nav/ > > There are not much info on howto for this particular package. > > Any help o

How to determine the history of a port

2010-05-23 Thread Paul Hoffman
Greetings again. A few years ago, I proposed editors/emacs-nox11 and submitted a patch to create it, and thus became listed in the comments at the beginning of the Makefile (but I am not the package maintainer, I believe). Today I got a report that the package does not build; I verified this. I

Re: How to determine the history of a port

2010-05-23 Thread Julien Laffaye
Hello, On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. A few years ago, I proposed editors/emacs-nox11 and > submitted a patch to create it, and thus became listed in the comments at the > beginning of the Makefile (but I am not the package maintainer, I believe). > Tod

Re: How to determine the history of a port

2010-05-23 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:46:46PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. A few years ago, I proposed editors/emacs-nox11 and > submitted a patch to create it, and thus became listed in the comments at the > beginning of the Makefile (but I am not the package maintainer, I believe). > Tod

gtk, gimp

2010-05-23 Thread ajtiM
Hi! After all of updtaes I have a little problem with GIMP: on the image window doesn't show anymore pointer coordinates, units and zoom. It show just Background... I have FreeBSD 8.0 p2, KDE 4.4.3. If I start GIMP from Konsole I got: gimp ** Message: Module '/usr/local/lib/gegl-0.1/ff-load.so' l

Re: How to determine the history of a port

2010-05-23 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 23 May 2010 at 17:05:04 PDT Julien Laffaye wrote: Hello, On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. A few years ago, I proposed editors/emacs-nox11 and submitted a patch to create it, and thus became listed in the comments at the beginning of the Makefile (b

Re: portmaster cannot find package

2010-05-23 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 21 May 2010, Eitan Adler wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, I'll definitely consider that for the next version. I already have problems with the documentation being long and detailed, whether it is too much of either is sort of in the eye of the beholder. :) Detailed documentation is al

Re: did sudo change the default sense of env_reset option?

2010-05-23 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 08:02:19AM -0400, jhell wrote: > Attached is the copy of the sudoers.default take a look through it to > see how to set a environment variable for use with portupgrade or > portmaster etc... Hmm. I see that that is now the installed default, but of course (by design) the f

kdebase4-runtime doesn't pull in libssh if compat7x is installed

2010-05-23 Thread Yuri Pankov
Hi, x11/kdebase4-runtime doesn't in pull security/libssh as dependency if we have misc/compat7x installed (installs libssh.so.4 as well, in different location). Detection of security/libssh could be changed to ${LOCALBASE}/include/libssh/libssh.h. Patch attached. Thanks, Yuri Index: Makefile ===

Re: port installation

2010-05-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On May 23, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Indi wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:25 PM, madal 30 wrote: >>> >>> Hello here, >>> >>> I am a new freebsd user and would like to know how to install port from >>> link below: >>> >>> http://www

Re: How to determine the history of a port

2010-05-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/05/2010 02:07:24, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Sun 23 May 2010 at 17:05:04 PDT Julien Laffaye wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hoffman >> wrote: >>> Greetings again. A few years ago, I proposed editors/emacs-nox11 and >

Re: did sudo change the default sense of env_reset option?

2010-05-23 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hi Andrew and All, On Sat, 22 May 2010 19:52:37 +1000 Andrew Reilly wrote: > I haven't changed my configuration recently, but I've noticed > that sudo processes have stopped inheriting my environment > variables like MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX and PORTSDIR. I read the man > page, and tried sudo -E, and th