Re: Ports Collection

2009-03-12 Thread FreeBSD List
Quick question Why are you using 6.4 instead of the latest (7.1)? Keep in mind that gnome2 has a lot of dependencies. That's just the nature of gnome2. When you say it didn't finish, did it stop and give you an error? When compiling gnome2 on FreeBSD, depending on your hardware, it can tak

Re: Disabling write cache on eSATA enclosures

2009-03-11 Thread FreeBSD List
I've got an external eSATA enclosure as well which is using a Silicon Image Chipset and its connected to a Silicon Image SATA controller just like yours. So far, I haven't figured out how to turn off the write cache. I even tried playing with it on Windows (both XP & Vista) and so far, there is

Re: p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation is corrupt!

2009-03-11 Thread FreeBSD List
Try doing a "pkg_deinstall -pf p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01" And if that fails, I guess you could try as a last resort "rm -Rf /var/db/pkg/p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01" and then reinstall the package and do a regular "pkg_delete -f p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01" -- Jacques Manukyan Noah wrote: yes and I still get the