Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-02 Thread Mel Flynn
On 1-6-2012 20:57, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > We used to have FreeBSD exclusively on desktops... > > Now, we have migrated to other desktops (mac) with FreeBSD running > the build and file server... > > Why? > > Because - the mac updates itself! No pain, no installation, > no keeping-up with

Re: Implications of pkgng, was Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On 3-6-2012 9:58, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 03/06/2012 02:21, Erich wrote: >> I do not believe that much more would be needed. Of course, we have >> then a huge number of versions. Would it matter? Give the ports tree >> the major version number of the latest release. So, at the moment it >> woul

Re: su problem

2012-06-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On 9-6-2012 18:42, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 09.06.2012 19:47, Sami Halabi пишет: >> %su - >> Password: >> load: 0.00 cmd: su 30588 [ttydcd] 0.91r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2092k > > Perpaps, your system had no keyboard attached at boot time; > or for some other reason it booted with /dev/console being seria

Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...

2009-07-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 23 July 2009 22:55:07 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, John Baldwin wrote: > > > How many of those 800 ports are actually necessary and used? > > > It would be better to get generate a complete list of your > > > installed ports, use pkg_deinstall or pkg_delete to remove >

Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...

2009-07-29 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 23:10:50 Doug Barton wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > I wrapped portmaster, since -af has the same problem when something > > screws the build (mostly plist problems and $me wanting backup packages, > > but also classics like using sudo as PM_SU_CMD an

Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-07-29 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 29 July 2009 10:48:33 Doug Barton wrote: > Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > * Doug Barton [2009-07-29 18:13]: > >> Mel Flynn wrote: > >>> Gotcha. Is there a reason the flags are removed if the options are not > >>> "-r or -f"? > &

Re: x11/nvidia-driver cannot obtain EDID under 8.0-BETA3/i386

2009-09-02 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 28 August 2009 15:50:30 Eugene Grosbein wrote: > Hi! > > Fresh install of 8.0-BETA2 upgraded to 8.0-BETA3 using source, > x.org installed from fresh ports tree. It cannot read EDID from > Samsung 959NF CRT monitor. The same time, it can read EDID under 7.2-STABLE > just fine. I've tried o