Re: xmms crash

2009-07-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> For over a year when trying to double the size of xmms the graphic > would become garbled. It was easy to kill the process, so I would just > leave it normal size. FYI I've seen that garbling too on amd64 7.1-REL & i386 7.2-REL Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consulta

Re: xmms crash

2009-07-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Wayne Sierke wrote: > As a work-around I launch xmms with this command: > > /usr/bin/env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 /usr/local/bin/xmms Great, works here, Thanks Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail in plain ASCII text; HTM

Re: TomTom GPS

2009-10-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: David Wolfskill > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:03:54 -0700 David Wolfskill wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:47:02PM -0400, carmel_ny wrote: > > I have three TomTom GPS's. Presently, I am forced to use Windows to > > manage/update them. I just noticed that

Re: TomTom GPS

2009-10-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Miguel > Hi Julian and David, > > > I could a co-operate with Miguel F on debug probes etc if he wants > > ( though I dont want to wipe & destroy my GPS, theyre too useful :-) > > > > Cheers, > > Julian > > I can assure you that I don't know of any GPS destroyed by GPSMan > since its first v

sysutils/libcdio provides no cdio_paranoia.0 for ports/devel/gvfs

2009-11-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi m...@freebsd.org cc: po...@freebsd.org A hint would be welcome please with sysutils/libcdio, Paranoia stuff seems broken, but I'm not clear what's intended, hence mail rather than a send-pr. uname -a FreeBSD laps.js.berklix.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #2: \ Wed Sep 9 1

Re: sysutils/libcdio provides no cdio_paranoia.0 for ports/devel/gvfs

2009-11-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Eugene, Reference: > From: Eygene Ryabinkin > Reply-to: rea-f...@codelabs.ru > Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:29:46 +0300 > Message-id: <7cnpo33btpf0wvk2b4xgmufs...@7anlw7wpnqueviofvqmcirbmcl4> Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:51

Re: sysutils/libcdio provides no cdio_paranoia.0 for ports/devel/gvfs

2009-11-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
rote: > > Hello Julian! > > > > (CC: devel/gvfs maintainer added) > > > > Thanks for reporting this issue. > > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 22:51 , Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > int would be welcome please with sysutils/libcdio, Paranoia stuff seems

Suggestion: A new variable for a few Makefiles: IS_BINARY

2010-01-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi ports@ people, Suggestion: A new variable for a few ports Makefiles, eg /usr/ports/www/opera/Makefile BINARY="To install binaries lacking sources, use RISK_BINARIES=YES" to over-ride it one would use eg cd /usr/ports ; make RISK_BINARIES=YES install It could work similarly to

Re: Suggestion: A new variable for a few Makefiles: IS_BINARY

2010-01-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
rton wrote: > > > On 1/20/2010 6:47 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Some may not don't mind > > > installing binaries from elsewhere, but FreeSBD could protect more, > > > > What is it that you're trying to protect people from? In other words,

Re: Checksum mismatch for ports/finance/homebank-4.2

2010-03-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Doug Barton wrote: > That's fine, but our process mandates that any committer who makes the > update needs to verify the diff between the two tarballs. > On 02/24/10 09:31, Wesley Shields wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:25:39PM +0300, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote: > >> On 24.02.2010 02:45, We

Re: k3b 2.0

2010-07-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Just out of curiosity, is anyone working on porting k3b 2.0? > I'd like to get rid of the KDE3 legacy. Especially, because > kdelibs3 is such a pain to build (fails if openssl-1.0 is present). I've seen kdelibs fail on 2 x amd64 8.1-RC2, breaking build of graphics/

Re: k3b 2.0

2010-07-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 28/07/2010 11:23, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity, is anyone working on porting k3b 2.0? > >> I'd like to get rid of the KDE3 legacy. Especially, because > >> kdelibs3 is such a pain

Re: Strange contents on some ftp mirrors

2010-07-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Mirroring must be atomic (mirror to temporary directory then rename). That could double disc requirement, & reduce mirror sites willing to provide space ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text. Not HTML, Not quo

Re: Strange contents on some ftp mirrors

2010-07-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Marcin Wisnicki wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:43:43 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > >> Mirroring must be atomic (mirror to temporary directory then rename). > > > > That could double disc requirement, & reduce mirror sites willing to > > provide space ?

FETCH_ARGS -a in Makefile of www/moonshine & chinese/ibus-chewing

2010-08-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi m...@freebsd.org, lih...@ieee.org cc: po...@freebsd.org I didn't use send-pr with a diff for this [yet], as review requested [first]. In -current/ports/www/moonshine/Makefile FETCH_ARGS= -apRr -current/ports/chinese/ibus-chewing/MakefileFETCH_ARGS= -apRr pleas

Re: FETCH_ARGS -a in Makefile of www/moonshine & chinese/ibus-chewing

2010-08-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> From: Romain =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tarti=E8re?= > Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:48:21 +0200 > tarball on my website and use it instead of github. Then I removed all > wicked lines of the Makefile related to fetching workarounds. > > Should be okay now. > > Thanks! Thanks Gary & Romai

current ports Mk make fetch calls wget fails to support schemes

2010-08-31 Thread Julian H. Stacey
>Submitter-Id: current-users >Originator:Julian H. Stacey >Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen. >Confidential: no >Synopsis: current ports Mk make fetch calls wget fails to support schemes >Severity: serious &g

Re: current ports Mk make fetch calls wget fails to support schemes

2010-08-31 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > ... > Hmm... Can't reproduce it here, but this is now the 2nd report of this > problem to hit -ports. > ... Thanks for looking, I'll send you more of my env. by private mail off list Eric Masson wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick writes: > > Hi, > > > Hmm... Can't reproduce it

Re: Request to include VMware X11 drivers on the installation media

2010-09-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, I just added "FreeBSD Release Engineers" as vmware might not be aware of that address. - Reference: > From: Andriy Gapon > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:20:58 +0300 > Message-id: <4ca223fa.3010...@freebsd.org> Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 28/09/2010 19:45 Dmitry Torokho

Re: porting: Linux to Freebsd

2010-10-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> On 02/10/2010 07:42:30, Chetan Shukla wrote: > > > Could someone please outline the steps needed in porting a general appl= > ication from > > Linux to FreeBSD. > > Step 1) Spend time (probably several years) achieving a reasonable level > of expertise in the languages and concepts involved. .

Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/procmail Makefile

2011-08-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 30.08.2011 10:23, schrieb Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh: > > sunpoet 2011-08-30 08:23:18 UTC > > > > FreeBSD ports repository > > > > Modified files: > > mail/procmailMakefile > > Log: > > - Take maintainership > > > > Revision ChangesPath >

Re: Time to remove the GNUTLS option in the print/cups-client port

2011-08-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> ... the US > patent system has become horribly broken in practice. The world's > biggest patent-holders that actually produce anything pretty much all > agree that the system is horribly broken, and mostly collect patents for > defensive use. Not just USA but Europe too, etc. A European Pat

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

2011-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Suggestion: pkgdb is too cryptic even with -v, it needs more explanation what it is up to & particularly what decisions it asks from user (I started with 8.2-Release pkgdb then moved to current pkgdb, some fragments of run examples below): % pkgdb -F -v Checking for

Re: Ports system quality

2011-09-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Michal, Nice analogy ! > Nobody is really steering this ship anymore and it just happily > rams icebergs along the way, with volunteers occasionally throwing > buckets of water (and sometimes pieces of furniture) overboard to > somehow keep it afloat for a while longer. Furniture like sysutils/di

Re: Ports system quality

2011-09-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: "Julian H. Stacey" > Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:07:40 +0200 > Message-id: <201109020107.p8217efj089...@fire.js.berklix.net> I wrote: > Microsoft must grin at all us BSD, Linux, maybe Solaris & presumably > even no

Re: Ports system quality

2011-09-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> > No /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/ports-mgmt/pkgin . > > I'm not familiar with pkgin, but nice to see OS co-operation. > > So, what do you actually mean by this? Re-read: ] Microsoft must grin at all us BSD, Linux, ] ... reinventing similar old ports shims for same old 3rd party

Re: Ports system quality

2011-09-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:49:48AM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi, > > Reference: > > > From: "Julian H. Stacey" =20 > > > Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:07:40 +0200=20 > > > Message-id:

x11-toolkits/tk84 install can't stat: /usr/local/man/man3/3DBorder.3

2011-09-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi I see this error (on current too) cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84 printenv PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin TERM=xterm PWD=/usr/ports uname -a FreeBSD blak.js.berklix.net 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu May 19 13:49:29

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

2011-09-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > ... but I am a > non-native user of the English language). ... > Correct English is good, but but plain, simple and common English is better. Yes :-) (I'm native English, but in Germany). I also believe shorter sentences work better (in either language). Easy to forge

Re: x11-toolkits/tk84 install can't stat: /usr/local/man/man3/3DBorder.3

2011-09-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi m...@freebsd.org cc Ruslan & ports@ Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote: > Julian H. Stacey wrote on 03.09.2011 15:38: > > Hi > > I see this error (on current too) > > cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84 > > printenv > > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ga

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Chris Rees > Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 20:21:10 +0100 > Message-id: > Chris Rees wrote: > On 4 September 2011 17:56, Chris Rees wrote: > > Guys, > > > > I've had to deprecate sysutils/cfs -- there's a confirmed issue with > > failing locks [1] which has

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Chris Rees wrote: > On 4 September 2011 21:32, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > >> > >> Whoops, also missed a CVE -- buffer overflows can cause a DoS. > >> Expiration date altered to 1 month accordingly. > > > > It is not responsible to threaten to remove port

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Mark Linimon wrote: > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:32:30PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > It is not responsible to threaten to remove ports without warning > > between releases for non urgent reasons. > > portmgr has no such policy. > > Ports get deleted all the tim

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Doug Barton wrote: > On 09/05/2011 02:33, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Chris Rees wrote: > >> On 4 September 2011 21:32, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Whoops, also missed a CVE -- buffer overflows can cause a DoS. > >>>> Ex

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthias Andree wrote: > So either Kostik, or you, or someone else steps up to maintain the port > at least to the extent that the known security bugs and reported bugs > get fixed, or to hell the port goes. Recent un-professional threats to throw out ports at un-necessarily short notice, with h

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Doug Barton > Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:45:51 -0700 > Message-id: <4e67f41f.70...@freebsd.org> Doug Barton wrote: > On 9/7/2011 10:02 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Doug Barton wrote: > >> On 09/07/2011 00:07, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > >>> D

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Chris Rees > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 07:20:27 +0100 > Message-id: > Chris Rees wrote: > --00151774047892f1af04ac680e7e > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 8 Sep 2011 02:29, "Julian H. Stacey"

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 07.09.2011 17:53, schrieb Mikhail T.: > > > The policy -- up until fairly recently -- was to remove ports, that > > *fail to build* for a while. This made sense -- if the port remains > > unbuildable long enough, then, certainly, it is no longer in use. > > > > The /ne

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 08.09.2011 13:52, schrieb Matt Burke: > > I want machines, tools, to do as *I* say not the other way round, whether > > it's good for me or not. If I wanted nannying and interference, I'd install > > Ubuntu. > > No, you'd use a managed installation. Nobody stands the

Re: ports-system priorities rant (Re: sysutils/cfs)

2011-09-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 08.09.2011 16:15, schrieb Mikhail T.: > > > Having a poor port of an obscure > > piece of software is better, than no port at all. > > A poor port is undesirable (and shouldn't be in the tree in the first > place). Wrong. A `poor' port is is still a port else it woul

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, > If not, see to backups and/or migration in due time. We can't possibly > support software that is unsupported by the vendor, but that's what We already do. Been working just fine for many years. No I wont tell you where, because I don't trust you & a few other irresponsible ports crusaders

Re: ports-system priorities rant (Re: sysutils/cfs)

2011-09-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthias Andree wrote: > >> An obscure piece of software is undesirable (and shouldn't be ported in > >> the first place). > > > > Bullshit! > > I think that suffices. If the discussion is getting emotional, we > should stop it. No. You should stop advocating killing ports, or leave, or be revo

Re: Removed ports - looking from the bench

2011-09-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Doug Barton > Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:40:27 -0700 > Message-id: <4e6b227b.5050...@freebsd.org> Doug Barton wrote: > The way that the FreeBSD project handles deleted ports is to leave them > in the CVS repository, where they are easily available to eve

Re: deprecated because: Development has ceased??? Maybe development is *complete*

2011-09-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> If the author of another package stated that maintenance ceased, that is > no longer the case. Any why let port users fall into this pit? They You advocate digging the pit. The hole where the ports was. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berkl

Re: ports deprecations (was: sysutils/cfs)

2011-09-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> No, I won't tell you which window manager, because if I want to use it > again I don't want to discover that calling it to the minds of some of > the ports people caused it to be deleted. That summarises it. I too avoided mentioning a port for fear of the immature kids who destroy ports. At lea

Re: ports-system priorities rant (Re: sysutils/cfs)

2011-09-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Chris Rees > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:44:37 +0100 > Message-id: > Chris Rees wrote: > On 12 September 2011 22:18, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Matthias Andree wrote: > >> >> An obscure piece of software is und

Re: ports-system priorities rant (Re: sysutils/cfs)

2011-09-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Chris Rees wrote: > On 12 September 2011 22:18, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Matthias Andree wrote: > >> >> An obscure piece of software is undesirable (and shouldn't be ported in > >> >> the first place). > >> > > >> > Bull

Re: ports-system priorities rant (Re: sysutils/cfs)

2011-09-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Chris Rees > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:25:01 +0100 > Message-id: > Chris Rees wrote: > On 13 September 2011 18:54, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi, > > Reference: > >> From:         Chris Rees > >>

Re: sysutils/cfs

2011-09-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthias Andree wrote: > claim, please fix, until end 2011, in mail/procmail, in collaboration > with sunpoet@: Procmail works for me, for a friend, & others on list. It was & remains irresponsible to try to force satisfied users to fix other people's reported problems on threat of ports being ot

libtool is ignoring make.conf CFLAGS += -static

2011-10-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi ports@ libtool is not honouring the -static in my /etc/make.conf grep CFLAGS /etc/make.conf CFLAGS += -DJHSJHSX=JHSJHSX # Debug CFLAGS += -static # for /usr/ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs CFLAGS += -pipe # Not on hosts with little RAM CFLAGS += -stat

Re: Strange issues while upgrading ports

2011-11-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running FreeBSD version 8.0 x64 edition on my server with multiple > jails. < Detail deleted > > Can anyone help with my issues?? 8.0 is too old, November 2009 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ 8.0 Is not supported. http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#

Re: Strange issues while upgrading ports

2011-11-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
lain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On 11/25/2011 02:51 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Kaya Saman wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm running FreeBSD version 8.0 x64 edition on my server with multiple > >> jails.

Re: mail/imaptools: port removal at Monday April 9th

2012-04-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> From: Chris Rees > > Well, whatever he says, he can't revoke the license of what's already > been distributed. > > > # Copyright (c) 2008 Rick Sanders # > #

Re: mail/imaptools: port removal at Monday April 9th

2012-04-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Mikhail Tsatsenko wrote: > On 08.04.2012 05:25, Mark Linimon wrote: > > portmgr's policy is to honor removal requests, no matter the circumstances. > > If someone wants to fork the last free release and host it somewhere, I > > would be less concerned in that case. > > > > mcl > I'd like to create

Re: mail/imaptools: port removal at Monday April 9th

2012-04-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
\ -> \ http://ftp7.freebsd.org/sites/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/imap_tools_V1.135.tar.gz\ Julian H. Stacey:\ http://berklix.com/~jhs/contact/:\ Tue Apr 10 14:30:17 CEST 2012 Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C

Re: mail/imaptools: port removal at Monday April 9th

2012-04-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Boris Samorodov wrote: > On 10.04.2012 16:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Maintainer of mail/imaptools (Boris) is welcome to add me to a list of > > witnesses: > > Thanks for your help but there is no need at the particular case. > The port was fixed yesterday and

Re: mail/imaptools: port removal at Monday April 9th

2012-04-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Mark Linimon wrote: > On 9 April 2012 17:49, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > >> portmgr's policy is to honor removal requests, no matter the circumstances. > > > > > > > >

Re: mail/imaptools: port removal at Monday April 9th

2012-04-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Doug Barton wrote: > On 04/09/2012 15:21, Da Rock wrote: > > To stick my nose where it probably doesn't belong: indeed. This is one > > area where linux annoys the most for that very reason. > > > > Let the user decide and bear the responsibility. > > If you want to put up a server with all the e

Re: FreeBSD supported branches update

2010-11-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Users of FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 are advised to upgrade promptly to a newer > release, ISDN Users of 6 be aware: 7 & 8 dropped inbuilt ISDN. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-September/058549.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-isdn/2009-June/000897.html list e

Re: Proposal moving *spell dicts to ports/textproc/*spell/dicts

2010-12-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> > Hello, > > > >> As I said some weeks ago I personally don't like much the use of > >> ports/{french,chinese,whatever}/ directories. I saw that openbsd > >> created sub directories in the aspell port. I think this is a really > >> good idea, it's really easier to find. > >> > >> I don't think ge

Re: Requast for hosting distfile of mail/c-sig

2011-01-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Yasuhiro KIMURA Yasuhiro KIMURA wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm a maintainer of mail/c-sig and resently found that master site of > the port had disappeared. > > I still want to continue using and maintaining this port and have > distfiles in my local disk. But I do

Re: Requast for hosting distfile of mail/c-sig

2011-01-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> > So is it possible to host these distfiles in MASTER_SITE_LOCAL defined > > in bsd.site.mk? > > That would only solve it for you, not the rest Please ignore that line, it's wrong, I had not meant to send it, my edit error, Sorry ! PS I've just sent a dmesg re lang/pbasic to fix bit rot there

www/chromium MAINTAINER, was Re: chromium producing constant hdd access

2011-01-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
chromium ] To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= ] cc: "Gary Jennejohn (Home)" ] Subject: Re: /pri/FreeBSD/branches/amd64/-current/ports/www/chromium ] From: "Julian H. Stacey" ] cc: "Julian H. Stacey" ] Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:51:26 +0100 ] Sender

Re: www/chromium MAINTAINER, was Re: chromium producing constant hdd access

2011-01-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Mark Linimon > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:48:50 + > Message-id: <20110118004850.gb17...@lonesome.com> Mark Linimon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:12:40PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > rene@ has ignored reques

Re: www/chromium MAINTAINER, was Re: chromium producing constant hdd access

2011-01-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 01:13:19PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi, > > Reference: > > > From: Mark Linimon =20 > > > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:48:50 +=20 >

Re: www/chromium MAINTAINER, was Re: chromium producing constant hdd access

2011-01-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Baptiste Daroussin > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:13:40 +0100 > Message-id: Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > > A MAINTAINER who does not maintain is not a maintainer. > > Makefile broke in the last month > > MAINTAINER rene@ should add a BUILD_DEPENDS or w

Re: www/chromium MAINTAINER, was Re: chromium producing constant hdd access

2011-01-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Rene, Your mailer is emitting many \xa0 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= wrote: > 2011/1/18 Julian H. Stacey : > > Hi, > > Reference: > >> From:         Mark Linimon > >> Date:         Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:48:50 + > >> Message-id:   <2011

Re: Instructions on Installing HP LaserJet P1102 on FreeBSD 8 (solved)

2011-01-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Bahman Kahinpour wrote: > After going through a hard time on installing HP LaserJet P1102 on > FreeBSD 8.1, I decided to write this. > > *** Installing HP LaserJet P1102 on FreeBSD 8.1 *** Nice, Well done for documenting :-) I dont have such a printer myself, but seems valuable, probably applies

Re: Clean up old PRs

2011-05-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 16/05/2011 13:02, Jerry wrote: > > x - expired > > This report is over 2 years old. If no one has bothered to fix it > > by now, then in all probability no one will. > > I've had PRs committed after spending many years in the queue. Just > because it's old doesn

Re: Clean up old PRs

2011-05-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Klaus, looks like you lost, so I restored: cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Reference: > From: "Klaus T. Aehlig" > Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 01:49:10 +0100 > Message-id: <20110517004910.gd94...@curry.linta.de> "Klaus T. Aehlig" wrote: > > Hallo, > > > Might it be more

Re: ports/comms/gammu breaks on ld: cannot find -lglib-2.0

2011-05-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Can someone else please breakage on ports/comms/gammu ? or suggest Should be: Can someone else please confirm breakage on ports/comms/gammu ? or suggest Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML,

ports/comms/gammu breaks on ld: cannot find -lglib-2.0

2011-05-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi b...@freebsd.org & po...@freebsd.org Can someone else please breakage on ports/comms/gammu ? or suggest a solution ?; Is this just my hosts & environment, or general ? cd /usr/ports/comms/gammu ; make clean ; make [ 70%] Building C object gammu-detect/CMakeFiles/gammu-detect.dir/main.o

Re: x11-wm/olvwm

2011-05-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"C. P. Ghost" wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM, wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have updated ports and when reinstalling I found x11-wm/olvwm which I was > > using was gone from the ports tree.  Why? > > I noticed that too, and was bit by that change as well. > Since I love the olvwm look an

Recomendations of PDF tools for editing PDF version 1.6 & 1.7 ?

2011-06-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi ports@, Any reccomendations what tools are best to edit new PDFs please ? As discussed on another thread on this list, openoffice doesnt build here, so reccomendations of smaller tools would be nice please. Ideally native. I dont really want the hastle of linux emulation, (though rather that t

Any software tools known for XBRL & PDF V1.6 & 1.7 ?

2011-07-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Anyone know of public domain source that does XBRL format (&/or iXBRL) ? & PDF V1.6 & 1.7 ? What XBRL is: A newish format the British government now demand for all corporate annual financial returns (eg British CT600) Already supported by numerous commercial software vendors, see:

Re: Any software tools known for XBRL & PDF V1.6 & 1.7 ?

2011-07-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> From: "b. f." Hi .b.f, Thanks for reply :-) "b. f." wrote: > > Anyone know of public domain source that does XBRL format (&/or iXBRL) ? > > & PDF V1.6 & 1.7 ? > > XBRL: > > http://arelle.org (python-based) > http://www.xbrlapi.org/ (java-based) > http://code.google.com/p/xbrlware/

Re: sysutils/diskcheckd needs fixing and a maintainer

2011-08-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Chris Rees > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:18:05 +0100 > Message-id: > Chris Rees wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to clear some PRs from freebsd-ports-bugs, and I've found > that sysutils/diskcheckd is in need of some attention. > > It doesn't appear to

Re: sysutils/diskcheckd needs fixing and a maintainer

2011-08-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> software is broken, if you want FreeBSD to continue to support/provide > it someone needs to fix it.' Thanks for the reply Chris. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a

Re: sysutils/diskcheckd needs fixing and a maintainer

2011-08-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Mark, > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Better to leave the port marked as having some run errors in some > > circumstances, that we dont have manpower for, but leave port in > > tree. > > Then we have the situation of a user sp

Ports & Packages infrastructure & feature import.

2011-08-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi ports team, cc: Vadim Goncharov Senior/ central ports team people who are competent, happy & authorised to hack in /usr/ports/Mk/* & on pkg tools etc, please notice ports & package infrastructure ideas in thread: From Vadim Goncharov Wed Aug 17 23:25:37 UTC 2011 http://

Re: sysutils/diskcheckd needs fixing and a maintainer

2011-08-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 02:57:17AM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > I'd question _why_ valuable people like you & Chris would allow > > your time to be distracted merely to try to get repair run time > > capability of a port. > > I haven

Re: CFS Cryptographic file system.

2008-06-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
--- Blind-Carbon-Copy To: Howard Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lorenzo Perone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CFS Cryptographic file system. From: "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-a

Add CONFLICTS_INSTALL=fusefs-ntfs to sysutils/ntfsprogs/Makefile

2012-06-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
>Submitter-Id: current-users >Originator:Julian H. Stacey >Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen. >Confidential: no >Synopsis: Add CONFLICTS_INSTALL=fusefs-ntfs to sysutils/ntfsprogs/Makefile >Severity: non-critical &

Mk macros & print/texinfo/distinfo variant SHA256 SIZE

2012-06-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi joh...@freebsd.org & cc ports@ A 9.0-RELEASE ports fails on cd print/texinfo ; make fetch unless one imports newer values from current, (as I did in my http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/gen/print/texinfo/distinfo.REL=ALL.diff ) But periodicaly patching distinfo with

Re: Mk macros & print/texinfo/distinfo variant SHA256 SIZE

2012-06-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> current Mk/bsd.port.mk has > # DISABLE_SIZE - Do not check the size of a distfile even if the SIZE field > # has been specified in distinfo. This is useful > # when using an alternate FETCH_CMD. PS: It's a port wide variable, not for individual files. Used here:

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently marked broken

2012-06-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
lini...@freebsd.org wrote: > As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in > the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically notify users of ports Hi all, Reports should be ordered to draw the interest of readers, these aren't yet. Probably: Many readers on ports@ often delete thes

European court allows software licence resale, & blocks PD capture ?

2012-07-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi s...@guug.de & po...@freebsd.org I set Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" To avoid cross posts between: Responders in German wanting s...@guug.de http://lists.guug.de/pipermail/sage/ Responders in English wanting

Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] [HEADS UP] Ports tree has been migrated to Subversion

2012-07-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Thomas, > Before committing please read the Ports Subversion Primer, > http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsSubversionPrimer. Please feel to add > missing parts of fix it if something is wrong. There is no match for "svn" & "subversion" in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/han

Re: Can we please just remove the old Makefile headers?

2012-08-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Brooks Davis wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 02:02:47PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > The old Makefile headers, ala: > >=20 > > # New ports collection makefile for:BIND 9.9.x > > # Date created: 27 January 2012 > > # Whom: dougb > > # > >

Re: Can we please just remove the old Makefile headers?

2012-08-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Bryan Drewery > Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:02:15 -0500 > Message-id: <503b6fd7.4060...@shatow.net> Bryan Drewery wrote: > On 8/27/2012 7:40 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Brooks Davis wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012

Re: Can we please just remove the old Makefile headers?

2012-08-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Eitan Adler wrote: > On 27 August 2012 08:40, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > On various other older ports, when I couldnt get response in time > > from MAINTAINER (I don't mean re hylafax), perhaps maintainer on > > holiday, & I couldn't wait for send-pr tie

Re: MAINTAINER lines and Real Names

2012-09-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> they have the much more pleasant and personal style; > I have > prepared a patch ... > As a nice extra, it would also on the surface support multiple > maintainers and make maintainer would still only return the first > match. Sounds good. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix L

Re: MAINTAINER lines and Real Names

2012-09-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> I see the proposal less about *FreeBSD Ports Teams* and more about > *Non-FreeBSD* groups. We can only blame ourselves for having > non-responsive teams, or having *mailing lists* be maintainers. > > I see the benefit here more about allowing us to commit PR from any of > the listed addresses, a

on current, pkg install openssl kills pkg

2018-10-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi po...@freebsd.org cc br...@freebsd.org maintaine= of ports/security/openssl On current, 12.0-ALPHA9, this kills pkg: pkg install openssl uname -r# 12.0-ALPHA9 cd /usr/src cat .ctm_status # src-cur 13733 cat .svn_revision

Re: on current, pkg install openssl kills pkg

2018-10-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
David Wolfskill mailed: > That's probably a good point at which to use pkg-static (instead of > pkg).. Ah Yes, I forgot that existed, thanks David. I tried it & it rescued pkg: pkg install openssl Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... ... Edit /usr/local/openssl

Re: on current, pkg install openssl kills pkg

2018-10-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Bernard Spil > Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 02:08:08 +0100 Bernard Spil wrote: > On 2018-10-17 0:26, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi po...@freebsd.org > > cc br...@freebsd.org maintaine= of ports/security/openssl > > > > On cur

ports/www/apache24 cgi-bin fails, OK on apache22 (fwd)

2018-11-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi ports@, As apache@ seems 95% noise from freebsd robots (just 2 humans last month), I'm now asking on ports@ ... To: apa...@freebsd.org Subject: ports/www/apache24 cgi-bin fails, OK on apache22 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 01:25:48 +0100 Hi apa...@freebsd.org ( Repost after subscribing list as not [

1 line patch for ports/graphics/tiff/files/patch-tiff2ps.c

2018-12-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Here is is a 1 line patch, commenting out a bad return after a perhaps aprropriate error check, http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/gen/graphics/tiff/files/patch-tiff2ps It fixes FreeBSD current ports/graphics/tiff PORTVERSION=4.0.10 at 2018-12-26 Someone on CC please also f

chrome error: libglib-2.0.so.0: Undefined symbol "environ"

2019-01-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi ports@ anyone else seen this or have ideas please: chrome ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0: Undefined symbol "environ" uname 13.0-CURRENT /usr/src/.svn_revision 342578 ls -l /usr/local/lib/libglib* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Nov 13 02:21 /usr/local/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0@ -

Re: chrome error: libglib-2.0.so.0: Undefined symbol "environ"

2019-01-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Kubilay Kocak > Reply-to: ko...@freebsd.org > Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 15:50:53 +1100 Kubilay Kocak wrote: > On 2/01/2019 2:21 pm, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi ports@ > > anyone else seen this or have ideas please: > > chro

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