Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Ian Smith wrote: > Goodo. I'll try chopping a bit too .. > Cleaning out my cruft, leaving only yours :D > Assuming that's 'oseek=0', which is the default anyway. > yes, a typo in my e-mail only, I got the cmd right in the installer. > Fair enough. 'what B

Re: disyfiles

2010-12-30 Thread perryh
wayne mitchell wrote: > i would like to get a hold of all 'relevant' distilfes - > the current size of the complete distfiles tree is 140GB > i have cottoned onto the idea of having somebody copy the > entire tree onto HDD and posting it over > ... > happy to pay a few bucks - though i am not pro

Re: load windows

2010-12-30 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:39:45 +0800, xinyou yan wrote: > Help: I installed 8.2 today , > I think I have forgot installed boot loader manager . > When I was finished and reboot . The system just has bsd loader > > I can use F2 load windows previous > Any one who know how to load linux also he

load windows

2010-12-30 Thread xinyou yan
Help: I installed 8.2 today , I think I have forgot installed boot loader manager . When I was finished and reboot . The system just has bsd loader I can use F2 load windows previous Any one who know how to load linux also help . (I have a linux in system the loader was installed on its /b

Re: Where to post FreeBSD tutorials?

2010-12-30 Thread Charlie Kester
On Thu 30 Dec 2010 at 17:17:31 PST Xn Nooby wrote: If I write a document about how to do something with FreeBSD, is there a good place to post it, or a link to it? Something like "how to edit a video in FreeBSD", not official documentation. I usually have to google things to find them, and ofte

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:17:48 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > > I don't expect this to be anything like that. Please show a) how many > > slices you allocated and how big this FreeBSD slice is and b) how you > > partitioned the FreeBSD sli

HDD READ/Timeout messages after 8.2 Upgrade

2010-12-30 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Greetings, I replaced mobo/cpu/ram today and found the onboard nic not fully recognized. Since the kernel is just over a year old I decided to try a system upgrade to see if the new hardware would get recognized. I did a csup this afternoon, then a build world/kernel (kernel is default but witho

Re: Any recommendations for FreeBSD VPS hosting?

2010-12-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 05:32:28PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > "n" == n j writes: > > n> Thanks for the input, I'll look into the suggested options: > n> http://arpnetworks.com/vps > n> http://www.rootbsd.net/virtual-hosting/ > n> http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html > > There

Where to post FreeBSD tutorials?

2010-12-30 Thread Xn Nooby
If I write a document about how to do something with FreeBSD, is there a good place to post it, or a link to it? Something like "how to edit a video in FreeBSD", not official documentation. I usually have to google things to find them, and often find the answer on stackoverflow or howtoforge. So

Why are YT vids on FreeBSD all about hacking MSN? (solved)

2010-12-30 Thread Xn Nooby
I wanted to watch some videos about FreeBSD, so I went to Youtube and searched on "FreeBSD". Then I sorted by "Date Uploaded", and almost all the videos uploaded recently are about hacking MSN. I went to the people's profiles, and they had no videos available. I am guessing that people are creat

Re: freeBSDFoundation donate problem

2010-12-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:04:23PM +, Paul Macdonald wrote: > > I've just tried again to donate to the foundation for the end of year push, > but 3 UK based cards all failed on the groundspring interface ( 2 x visa, > 1 x mastercard, all had funds obv) > > Paypal also failed stating i could

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-30 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Warren Block wrote: > Those look backwards to me.  It's extremely rare for me to upgrade > everything that a given port depends on (-R), but common to upgrade a port > and everything that depends on it (-r). I've used -R before to correct situations where a freshl

freeBSDFoundation donate problem

2010-12-30 Thread Paul Macdonald
I've just tried again to donate to the foundation for the end of year push, but 3 UK based cards all failed on the groundspring interface ( 2 x visa, 1 x mastercard, all had funds obv) Paypal also failed stating i couldn't use this card for the transaction (which is usable for other purchases

Re: Firefox 3.6 and Java ?

2010-12-30 Thread Richard T C Farnes
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 17:56:03 John Levine wrote: > I gather that Firefox 3.6 still doesn't work with Java, since the > glue hasn't been updated. Is anyone likely to be working on this? > > I'm willing in principle, although my knowledge of both Firefox and > Java internals is, ah, somewha

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:52:48 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Interestingly, I've never seen > anyone write "hi's" when meaning "his". Come to Germany, where ' is used to * indicate that a "s" will follow, * indicate that a "t" will follow, or * indicate that the word

disyfiles

2010-12-30 Thread wayne mitchell
hey i have a freeBSD 8.1 RELEASE system working off-line and a windows b'band connection my b'band connection has downloads limits i would like to get a hold of all 'relevant' distilfes - the current size of the complete distfiles tree is 140GB i have cottoned onto the idea of having somebody copy

Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed

2010-12-30 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Matthew Seaman on Thursday, 30 December 2010: > On 30/12/2010 18:51, Chip Camden wrote: > > The regular freshports newsletter includes new ports and some version > > updates, but not all. I don't see a way to subscribe to all updates > > for chromium (e.g.). But perhaps I'm just missing the

Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed

2010-12-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 30/12/2010 18:51, Chip Camden wrote: > The regular freshports newsletter includes new ports and some version > updates, but not all. I don't see a way to subscribe to all updates > for chromium (e.g.). But perhaps I'm just missing the appropriate link. > If you make yourself an account at fr

Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed

2010-12-30 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Erik Trulsson on Thursday, 30 December 2010: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 08:19:00AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > Hello fellow BSDophiles, > > > > The chromium port is trying my patience. I'm not using it now, because of > > its unpatched vulnerabilities. Buit I'm keeping it installed, so I'

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-30 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Thomas Mueller wrote: Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for portupgrade? I might want to portupgrade a package and all its dependencies (-R), or less frequently, all packages that depe

Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed

2010-12-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 08:19:00AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Hello fellow BSDophiles, > > The chromium port is trying my patience. I'm not using it now, because of > its unpatched vulnerabilities. Buit I'm keeping it installed, so I'll be > notified by portversion when an update comes through.

Detecting updates to ports not installed

2010-12-30 Thread Chip Camden
Hello fellow BSDophiles, The chromium port is trying my patience. I'm not using it now, because of its unpatched vulnerabilities. Buit I'm keeping it installed, so I'll be notified by portversion when an update comes through. Is there a more excellent way to receive the same sort of notificatio

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > I don't expect this to be anything like that. Please show a) how many > slices you allocated and how big this FreeBSD slice is and b) how you > partitioned the FreeBSD slice into (and sizes of) / /var/ /usr [/tmp?] > and especially swap. > > I

Re: gnome to kde

2010-12-30 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:53 AM, xinyou yan wrote: >  I want to use kde instead of  gnome > > How can i delete gnome  completely > (I am afraid to  delete others or less delete ) Use pkg_rmleaves (ports) to remove the "leaf" ports of gnome and keep in going thru until you don't see anything to gn

gnome to kde

2010-12-30 Thread xinyou yan
I want to use kde instead of gnome How can i delete gnome completely (I am afraid to delete others or less delete ) thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

graphics/graphviz fails to install

2010-12-30 Thread Da Rock
I'm following pr 147290, and I'm trying to fix it. I'm not sure how OpenEXR got involved but it is, and I need some help figuring out posix threads. I know I've bitten off way more than I can probably chew, but I will anyway :) I swallowed whole a medium mandarin when I was ten, so I'm used to

Re: Gnome-Panel fails to upgrade

2010-12-30 Thread Da Rock
On 12/30/10 23:41, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: ?I am unable to upgrade /x11/gnome-panel. every time i run portupgrade -a, i fails with the following line while compiling --- g-ir-scanner: warning: Option --strip-prefix

Gnome-Panel fails to upgrade

2010-12-30 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
?I am unable to upgrade /x11/gnome-panel. every time i run portupgrade -a, i fails with the following line while compiling --- g-ir-scanner: warning: Option --strip-prefix has been deprecated; see --identifier-prefix

Call for bids - Candidatures WEEC 2015

2010-12-30 Thread WEEC - Permanent Secretariat
Call for bids   The organizations interested in having their country become a candidate to host the* 8th Edition of the WEEC Congress in 2015*, will have to send a detailed project to the Permanent Secretariat of the WEEC Network by *31st March 2011*. The candidatures will be assessed according

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Da Rock
On 12/30/10 21:44, Eitan Adler wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Chris Rees wrote: I'm pretty sure it's in the Porter's Handbook under the marking as BROKEN section Heh - now I feel silly for missing it :-{ Either way it should be documented in ports(7) and bsd.port.mk.

MySQL 5.5.7->5.5.8 Gotcha!

2010-12-30 Thread Odhiambo Washington
I am seeing a problem I am unable to solve after upgrading from 5.5.7 -> 5.5.8. I am installing Request Tracket and I get the following error (which is in no way related to RT, I think): Character set 'latin1' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the '/usr/local/share/mysql/cha

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-30 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:47:59 +0100 "Christopher J. Ruwe" wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:59:49 + > "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > > > Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, > > what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for > > portupgrade? > > > > I migh

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Rees
I agree. Go for it! Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 30 Dec 2010 11:44, "Eitan Adler" wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Chris Rees wrote: >> I'm pretty sure it's in the Porter's Handbook under the marking as BROKEN >>

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-30 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:59:49 + "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, > what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for portupgrade? > > I might want to portupgrade a package and all its dependencies (-R), > or less frequently,

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > I'm pretty sure it's in the Porter's Handbook under the marking as BROKEN > section Heh - now I feel silly for missing it :-{ Either way it should be documented in ports(7) and bsd.port.mk. -- Eitan Adler _

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Rees
I'm pretty sure it's in the Porter's Handbook under the marking as BROKEN section Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 30 Dec 2010 11:32, "Eitan Adler" wrote: >>> Thanks for the reply, but can someone tell me if this is documen

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Eitan Adler
>> Thanks for the reply, but can someone tell me if this is documented anywhere > particularly? I'm going to be pissed if I missed it ;) It does not seem to be documented anywhere. I found it by grepping for BROKEN in the Mk subdirectory. I will submit a pr now to add it to ports(7) and the top o

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 30/12/2010 10:37, Da Rock wrote: > On 12/30/10 20:12, Eitan Adler wrote: Edit the port's Makefile and comment-out the BROKEN line. >> Generally - don't do this. > I kinda got that impression already, but can someone enlighten me why > (apart from the obvious, of course- it could break th

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:31:37 -0800, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: >> "Giorgos" == Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > Giorgos> Edit it's 'Makefile'. Look for an assignment of the form: > > Minor nit... that's "its" not "it's". If you can't say "it is" or "it > has" in place, t

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
Threads about portmaster and portupgrade status raise the question, what flags for portmaster are comparable to -R and -r for portupgrade? I might want to portupgrade a package and all its dependencies (-R), or less frequently, all packages that depend on the package to be portupgraded (-r). H

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Eitan Adler
>> >> Edit the port's Makefile and comment-out the BROKEN line. Generally - don't do this. >> > > Oh, the irony! :) I considered doing that, but I thought there might have > been some magic incantation that got around this... > There is make -DTRYBROKEN -- Eitan Adler _

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Da Rock
On 12/30/10 20:12, Eitan Adler wrote: Edit the port's Makefile and comment-out the BROKEN line. Generally - don't do this. I kinda got that impression already, but can someone enlighten me why (apart from the obvious, of course- it could break the makefile if you forget)? And is t

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Da Rock
On 12/30/10 18:10, Chris Rees wrote: On 30 December 2010 07:21, Da Rock wrote: On 12/30/10 15:52, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Charlie Kesterwrote: Most of the time, possessives are formed with apostrophe+s. I'm not sure, but "its" might be the only exception to the

Re: Any recommendations for FreeBSD VPS hosting?

2010-12-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 30/12/2010 01:21, n j wrote: > Thanks for the input, I'll look into the suggested options: > > http://arpnetworks.com/vps > http://www.rootbsd.net/virtual-hosting/ > http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html > > If you know of any other FreeBSD VPS providers, please share. For people this side

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 30 December 2010 07:21, Da Rock wrote: > On 12/30/10 15:52, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> >> Charlie Kester  wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Most of the time, possessives are formed with apostrophe+s.  I'm >>> not sure, but "its" might be the only exception to the rule ... >>> >> >> "It's" seems to be t