Re: Poudriere bulk "Deleting foo-1.2.3.pkg: no longer needed"

2021-10-11 Thread tech-lists
Hi, On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 04:15:32PM -0400, J David wrote: We use a staged approach to building packages with poudriere, with several "bulk" commands, because some ports we rarely need take an incredibly long time to build. (Mainly languages, like rust, clang, and gcc.) [snip] Basically,

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

2022-01-22 Thread tech-lists
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 03:25:19PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: Hello everyone, We plan to remove the support for fetching packages over ftp for the next releases of pkg (probably 1.18) if you have a strong reason to use ftp which cannot be fixed by switching to any other supported protocols

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

2022-01-23 Thread tech-lists
On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 05:32:26PM +0800, Li-Wen Hsu wrote: If this is due to security considerations, I don't think a place disallowing ssh and https would allow plain ftp. Some places either might not have or might not allow egress. Some networks are closed at install time. An ftp server on

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

2022-01-23 Thread tech-lists
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 03:25:19PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: Hello everyone, We plan to remove the support for fetching packages over ftp for the next releases of pkg (probably 1.18) if you have a strong reason to use ftp which cannot be fixed by switching to any other supported protocols

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

2022-01-23 Thread tech-lists
On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 08:55:09AM -0800, Jose Quinteiro wrote: You can run HTTP on a non-standard port. For example, 8080 is commonly used. As an added bonus, this means that the HTTP server need not run as root. Unless I'm mistaken, there is no web server in base. There is though, an ftp se

using pkgs vs using a cms

2022-03-23 Thread tech-lists
Hi, What's the advantage in updating a port over using its own ecosystem? examples: www/nextcloud and www/drupal9 These are popular programs which, because they are popular, present a vulnerability vector from a security standpoint if they're not kept up-to-date, and also if their dependencie

azure serial console display garbled when accessing through firefox

2022-03-28 Thread tech-lists
Hi, Using firefox (latest) on either freebsd-stable/13 or on linux mint, when accessing the virtual console on azure, rather than displaying readable letters and numbers as is usual, the display just shows multi-coloured icons where each character should be. Turning off hardware accelleratio

Re: azure serial console display garbled when accessing through firefox

2022-03-28 Thread tech-lists
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 05:10:12PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! Using firefox (latest) on either freebsd-stable/13 or on linux mint, when accessing the virtual console on azure, rather than displaying readable letters and numbers as is usual, the display just shows multi-coloured icons where e

Re: azure serial console display garbled when accessing through firefox

2022-03-30 Thread tech-lists
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 10:33:10AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! > > Is this a known issue? I'm asking here rather than at firefox because, as > > I understand it, firefox under linux and firefox under freebsd are very > > similar. > > Do I need to raise the issue directly with mozilla? > > Yes

Re: azure serial console display garbled when accessing through firefox

2022-03-31 Thread tech-lists
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 10:33:10AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! > > Is this a known issue? I'm asking here rather than at firefox because, as > > I understand it, firefox under linux and firefox under freebsd are very > > similar. > > Do I need to raise the issue directly with mozilla? > > Yes