Re: Intentionally bad port behaviour

2022-11-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022, Chris wrote: > Exceptionally bad behavior for anything in the ports tree. > I think this port should be patched out of the ports tree. And then block that creature from ever having anything to do with ports again... That is a gross abuse of trust. -- Dave

Re: Unmaintained FreeBSD ports which are out of date

2023-03-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 6 Mar 2023, portsc...@freebsd.org wrote: [...] > +-+ > cad/ifcopenshell| 0.6.0 | > blenderbim-230306 > +-+

Re: dns/bind916 builds rust unexpectedly

2023-09-25 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 25 Sep 2023, Guido Falsi wrote: > Anyway building from ports on live machines has always been bad practice > for a lot of reasons. That's fine if you can afford a spare system just for building... -- Dave

Re: dns/bind916 builds rust unexpectedly

2023-09-26 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 25 Sep 2023, Roger Marquis wrote: > Or $5/mo for a Digitalocean VM. They host spammers, so I cannot use them (the Boulder Pledge etc); there are probably other VMs around, should I feel the need. On Tue, 26 Sep 2023, Guido Falsi wrote: > > That's fine if you can afford a spare system

Re: Stopping and restarting poudriere

2021-06-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 8 Jun 2021, bob prohaska wrote: More generally, can a poudriere session be gracefully stopped, say for maintenance work or to run a more urgent job, and then restarted without loss of intermediate work? Well, there's ^Z depending upon what you want to do in the meantime... -- Dave

Re: [REQUEST] Portfolio Performance

2021-08-28 Thread Dave Horsfall
Is it just me, or does this look suspiciously like an advert? -- Dave

Re: About GIT and committing submissions

2021-10-18 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'm relatively neutral about this, but if it's adopted, please document it. git still seems like a minefield to me. Lots of references to "git hell" etc... It's basically a terrible design. I use BitKeeper for my internal stuff; it helps that

Re: Adding functionality to a port

2021-11-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021, George Mitchell wrote: Perhaps I'm naïve, but to me the Principle of Least Amazement really does completely cover the issues being raised here. Is it necessary to complicate the situation any more than that? -- George First time I've heard POLA called that; I knew it as

Re: Adding functionality to a port

2021-11-16 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 16 Nov 2021, Gregory Byshenk wrote: I am just a user, but my understanding is that FreeBSD developers take the OS very seriously, but do not take themselves too seriously. Best comment I've seen in this increasingly-sillier thread. -- Dave

Re: [HEADSUP] Deprecation of the ftp support in pkg

2022-01-24 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 24 Jan 2022, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > [...] Tho I must admit I find @bapt's recent tcp proposal an > > interesting and appealing idea. :-) > > The proposal is now in anyway ;) That was fast; excellent service, sir! I now have even more reason to upgrade my ancient server (FTP is