Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 24 May 2012 23:56:02 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > Is there a way to find out what options a package is built with? I don't think so. A package is just an archive containing "truncated subtrees" such as bin/, lib/ or man/ of the compiled programs, ready for install into the /usr/local direct

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 24 May 2012 23:55:17 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> 5. It looks like the options which show up using sysinstall are from the > >> OPTIONS variable in the Makefile. > > > > Excuse me, where exactly do you see compile-time options in the > > sysinstall program? I know it can select and instal

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/24/12 23:34, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:28:58 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: 3. Do the package builds use the defaults set in the ports tree? If not, how are the options for packages chosen, and how does one determine wha

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Gary Aitken
> I didn't see anything in the ports documentation, but maybe I'm blind. Check "man 7 ports". Doh. I'm blind. I've read that at least three times looking at other stuff. Makes sense now. Thanks especially because it's illegal to listen to MP3 in the U. S. :-) g... 5. It looks l

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:28:58 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > > 3. Do the package builds use the defaults set in the ports tree? If > > not, how are the options for packages chosen, and how does one determine > > what the package options are? > > T

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: 1. When building a port, the system uses sysinstall to set options for the build. ncurses, not systinstall, but yes. How does one configure those options so make can be run unattended? I didn't see anything in the ports documentation, but maybe I'm bli

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:28:58 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > 1. When building a port, the system uses sysinstall to set options for > the build. No. The default options are set by the port maintainer, usually in the port's Makefile. > How does one configure those options so make can be run > una

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver. Thanks for the reply Warren, but nope: Driver "radeon" VendorName "ATI Technologi

automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

2012-05-24 Thread Gary Aitken
1. When building a port, the system uses sysinstall to set options for the build. How does one configure those options so make can be run unattended? I didn't see anything in the ports documentation, but maybe I'm blind. In particular, how does one configure a dependent port for the options

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: And in worst case, use "portdowngrade" to get

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, You guys now absolutely, positively have enough information for a PR. It's still not clear whether it's a device/interrupt layer issue in FreeBSD, or whether vmware is doing something wrong with how it implements shared interrupts, or a bit of both.. Adrian On 24 May 2012 13:54, dane foster

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread doug
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: That was such a great idea, I also just tried it. For me at least it is not that alt-ctrl-Fn does not switch, it does. What is does not do is connect to the monitor except for alt-ctrl-F9. So in the abse

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Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: And in worst case, use "portdowngrade" to get an older version of the port (may require r

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 24. May 2012, at 13:47 , Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above >> information in it so we don't lose it? >> > > I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it per

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread dane foster
Hey all, On 25/05/2012, at 1:47 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above >> information in it so we don't lose it? >> > > I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to ge

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread doug
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting Option

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting Option

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: > > > > I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in > > the water when stuck in x.org. > > Maybe putting > > Option"DontVTSwitch"

Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: > > I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in > the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting Option "DontVTSwitch" "false" in Section "ServerFlags" or /etc/X11/xorg.conf helps? -- Polytr

Re: multiple versions of pcre needed with pkgs and ports

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Felder
Never mix packages and ports. You would have to be using the EXACT snapshot of ports that the package team used to build the packages for this to be safe. So conclusion: use one or the other, but never both. Things you need to be doing now: 1. Install sysutils/bsdadminscripts and run pkg_lib

multiple versions of pcre needed with pkgs and ports

2012-05-24 Thread Gary Aitken
I had an old version of ports and installed xorg and gnome2-lite using pkg_add. Then tried to build (make) openoffice-3. The make croaked with some missing java licensing files which were old. So... I updated the ports tree via portsnap fetch portsnap extract portsnap update Following

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hi, can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above information in it so we don't lose it? I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. I certainly don't want this data to get lost and

Re: Connect to Clear hub modem

2012-05-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: Looking at the code above again, there's an error. The first line is not going to do anything (I think, rc.conf has surprised me before). It should have the interface name. So either of these two lines should work: ifconfig_re0="DHCP" or ifconfig_re

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 al

Re: Connect to Clear hub modem

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote: Whoops! By imaginary, I meant not really on the internet, but in 198.168.x.x block reserved for private netting. This combination of things seems to work in rc.conf:

Re: Connect to Clear hub modem

2012-05-24 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote: Whoops! By imaginary, I meant not really on the internet, but in 198.168.x.x block reserved for private netting. This combination of things seems to work in rc.conf: network_interfaces="lo0 re0" That is norm

How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

2012-05-24 Thread Lars Eighner
I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. How do I do that? I suppose the whole ports tree has to go back since x.org drags in a bunch of stuff without doing anything itself. I'm on 8.3 amd64. PS: the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU switch does

Re: LRO support for IPv6

2012-05-24 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 23. May 2012, at 08:22 , Venkat Duvvuru wrote: > Folks, > Can somebody please explain me why "tcp checsum" calculation is mandated in > the freebsd network stack (tcp_input--->in6_cksum) albeit the card supports > it? > > Probably Steve is the right person who can answer this. Just for publi

virtual scrum board

2012-05-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hi, I was looking in our ports collection for some kind of virtual scrum board with the following requirements: - allows a team over the network to see the current page of all 'sticker' for the tasks, and make changes (if in web browser even better) - allows to put tasks (a few words) as 'stic