the right next step?

Hi everybody! If we've i) raised a question about a port on this list ii) sent an email to the port maintainer iii) filed a pr iv) waited ~ a month, then followed-up the pr and there's still no communication / action, what's the right next step? Is there a different list to communicate

Re: the right next step?

Hi John! > Does your PR include a fix? Well, I've sent my suggestion to the maintainer -- I don't know if it's the *right* fix for the general port. But, it works for me as a workaround. For what it's worth, in this particular case, I've simply asked that the www/apache22 port be made compatibl

Re: the right next step?

Hi Bill! > Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. > During the freeze, you'll have difficulty getting any ports changes > through. That's what I figured -- and why I've been trying to communicate about this for ~ a month already. It's not really that *I* have an

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

Hi everybody! > I'm not a very heavy perl user, but I've never *needed* to install CPAN on > FreeBSD. A little creative searching has revealed that most perl packages > are part of the FreeBSD Ports collection. > > If you use more obscure CPAN packages, I can see there might be a need to > install

Re: the right next step?

Hi Jerry! > I am not sure I understand all of what is being said or implied here. Hm. Now *I'm* confused by your confusion ;-) Let me summarize -- The www/apache22 port ignores (or more correctly, is not yet aware of ...) a port-installed bdb46. unlike most other ports that are up-to-date, it

Re: [freebsd-questions] easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

Hi Howie, > What does CPANPLUS do that CPAN doesn't that makes this a better > solution? Does it somehow integrate with the ports better? (rather than > getting conflicts between p5-* and bsdpan-*) > > I use quite a lot of CPAN modules, so a way to be able to get 'obscure' > modules, and still use

Re: the right next step?

Hi, Yes, I'm aware of pending freezes and such ... and the need for a PR. > As for ignoring make and build settings, that should probably > be put in a PR (bug report). If it is a serious bug, then it > might get addressed before the release. Otherwise it won't get > touched until after. I g

Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

Hi everybody, I'm building my 1st FreeBSD-based box. Yay, I guess ;-p I've already installed Berkeley DB v46 from the Ports system. Now, I'ts on to MySQL server. I can easily build manually from source, configuring whatever I need. But, I'm trying to get the Ports system's "knobs" figured out

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

Hi Dan! > > (1) Turn OFF use of BDB completely. The build seems to default to the > > bundled BDB > > Mysql 5.0's configure script doesn't seem to have a --without-bdb flag, > so it always gets built. > > (2) Use the Port install of BDB v46 I mentioned above. > > It does have a --with-berkeley-d

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

Hi Dan! > I just tried it and it looks like that does disable bdb. I never > noticed that line in the Makefile before :) Well, you'd think it should. But even with, grep berkeley-db ./Makefile CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-assembler --without-berkeley-db the build seems to /ignore/ the flag, g

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

Hi Dan, One last thing (It's way past my bedtime here ;-p) > See that "--with-berkeley-db" in there? :-( A little digging in the mysql ditribution's source files dredged up the "CONF_COMMAND" variable. Do-ing, CONF_COMMAND="--without-berkeley-db"; export $CONF_COMMAND perl -pi -e 's/^(CONFI

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

> I'll check the build's output with ldd when the build finishes. Looks like the simple workaround works :-) ldd /usr/local/libexec/mysqld libz.so.3 => /lib/libz.so.3 (0x284a8000) libwrap.so.4 => /usr/lib/libwrap.so.4 (0x284b9000) libssl.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libssl.

Apache22 Port can't find Berkeley DB.

Hi! When I ran an upgrade to the Ports tree using the "portsnap" tool portsnap fetch update I saw an available update available to /usr/ports/www/apache22, but it was immediately followed with an error, IGNORED Unknown Berkeley DB version in the console output. Other ports eventually ge

Re: Apache22 Port can't find Berkeley DB.

Hi Gerard! > I have been having the same problem with the latest version of > Berkeley. I was going to contact the maintainer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; > however, I have not gotten around to it yet. Perhaps you might want to > inquire of him how to get this problem rectified. Sure! Best, I guess, to j

Re: Apache22 Port can't find Berkeley DB.

Hi! Just FYI, I didn't get any response to the message I sent to the port-maintainer. I do know they've been working on / releasing stuff on this port in the meantime. Since I don't see any other way to communicate to "a maintainer" other than by list/email, I guess the right, next step is filin

Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

Hi! I'm setting up a jailed server. I'm hoping to eventually use sysutils/ezjail to deaden the pain a bit! First step, have to get the disks partitioned! They're unpacked, at least ;-) I've read lots of comments like, "You should never setup your FreeBSD systems the way Linux or other *nix's

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

> > drive 2: > > / 2GB > A bit big, but fine I though so, but with drives this big & cheap ... :-) > > /boot 2GB > Nope, FreeBSD doesn't need / want a /boot I didn't realize :-/ Just to be sure, you DO mean it doesn't want a separate slice/partiti

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

Hi guys! Some great ideas & advice. Thanks a lot :-) > > /boot *needs* to be on /. A loader looks for [bootdisk][bootslice] > > [a]/boot/loader. Ok, gotcha. > > Since you have 2 physical drives, you may want to do 8G on each drive. In > > the > > rare case it's needed, your system is in troubl