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Porting software to FreeBSD
December 2007 - page 1
running port as non-root (2 Replies)
rihad — 119648798301 Dec 2007*
Hi, I'm trying to run the net/openradius port as non-root by first changing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/openradius: . /etc/rc.subr name="openradius...
FreeBSD Port: samba-3.0.26a_2,1 (1 Reply)
Todd Martin — 119649922601 Dec 2007*
my previous message read" "to test further on the smb/cifs protocol issue... this morning,I installed the latest source of samba 3.0.27a and...
GP — 119651398701 Dec 2007*
- Original Message - From: "GP" To: Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 12:37 AM Subject: HELP needed by experienced porter for simple review...
Michel Talon — 119652512901 Dec 2007
I could not disagree more with you. Many users will jump to the new release, and very few need to run the latest version of some port. The rare needin...
Michel Talon — 119652652601 Dec 2007
As you are saying, this is a question of compromise. You can stay months and months with everything frozen in the vain hope of chasing every bug. This...
make search= (2 Replies)
avi rot — 119652786401 Dec 2007*
Hifreebsd 6.2 i try to find amule port with the command "make search name=amule" instead i type "make search=emule" , the command ...
Re: duration of the ports freeze (3 Replies)
Michel Talon — 119653748501 Dec 2007*
I beg to offer a radically different opinion. I don't want to compile the ports, i want the packages, that i will install with pkg_add -r, and i w...
Problem re-compiling nvidia-driver (1 Reply)
Frank — 119655293701 Dec 2007*
I am trying to rebuild nvidia-driver using portupgrade to match a newer kernel and in the Makefile is the statement: # Building with -Werror requires ...
Rene Ladan — 119659246402 Dec 2007
Hi, is there any chance that version 1.0.0 will ship with 6.3/7.0 despite the ports freeze? Somewhere in the thread "duration of the ports freeze...
Re: duration of the ports freeze (57 Replies)
Remko Lodder — 119663580102 Dec 2007*
See the freebsd.org release pages. ...
Ken — 119667594903 Dec 2007
checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no creating libtool checking for pkg-config.....
Re: duration of the ports freeze (6 Replies)
Michel Talon — 119667723003 Dec 2007*
Dependency tracking is a manual operation of the port maintainer. There is no way to automatize it, because there is a lot more in dependencies than s...
FreeBSD bugmaster — 119667996603 Dec 2007
Current FreeBSD problem reports The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering al...
Boris Samorodov — 119669118903 Dec 2007
Hi! The port graphics/ffff is currently broken with gcc-42. To unbreak the port with gcc-42 the compiler options "-msse -msse2 -m3dnow" shou...
Announcing pkg_search (2 Replies)
Matthias Schmidt — 119669180803 Dec 2007*
[Resend to ports@, was first on current@] Hi guys, I wrote a small script called pkg_search to help me searching my local ports tree for a port/packag...
Lapo Luchini — 119669308603 Dec 2007
Yay! It's now Public Domain! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail#Copyright_... which leads to: http://cr.yp.to/talks/2007.11.02/slides.pdf (page 10...
Heino Tiedemann — 119671092503 Dec 2007*
Hi There, portupgrade -a fails because auf some perl Problems: ,` It stops on differnt ports (graphics/ImageMagick is just an exemple). What can I do?...
Gunnar Steira Mikkelsen — 119671533603 Dec 2007
Hi! I just migrated from 32bit FreeBSD to amd64 and realised that the tightvnc-port wasnt supported. A helpful guy called Tsurutani Naoki provided me ...
Brian — 119672689404 Dec 2007
Of the 2 master sites listed, the vt site appears invalid, and the other gives an humorously odd 404 error, and just going to dragondata.com seems to ...
PHP ClamAV Lib (3 Replies)
jekillen — 119672906904 Dec 2007*
Hello: I am looking for PHP ClamAV Lib in ports and I do not know of hand where to find it. I did not find it in /usr/ports/security. And if it exists...
chroot: conftest stuck in umtxn state (1 Reply)
Erik Cederstrand — 119677146004 Dec 2007*
Hi! I'm installing some ports into a chroot environment that will eventually go on a separate machine. When installing python25, the installation ...
Hansa — 119677231504 Dec 2007
Hi, Since you are listed as the mainainer for the snort package on FreeBSD, can you update the snort port to the latest version? The latest version in...
Maintaining of *-aspell ports (5 Replies)
Nikola Lečić — 119681795905 Dec 2007*
Hello, All ~80 *-aspell ports have 'MAINTAINER=ports@FreeBSD.org'. Does this mean that someone should take maintainership?...
David Wood — 119681882705 Dec 2007*
(Resend with the correct email address for the mailing list - stupid me) (ade@ cc'd as maintainer of devel/libtool) Dear all, The upcoming ports f...
Aryeh M. Friedman — 119682216505 Dec 2007
One of the people who gave me the hardest time was able to tell me in a way that was clear to me what his issue with how I presented stuff was (privat...
All those 'Ports System Re-engrg" posts (3 Replies)
Chuck Robey — 119683968505 Dec 2007*
He took his roadshow over to -questions. Funny thing is, he has set of folks that are all just like him, and they are all merrily re-engineering ports...
Clint Olsen — 119684106005 Dec 2007*
I've tried redirecting standard output/error, both /bin/sh and /bin/csh, and I can't run this in batch. I'm trying to build gnome which ta...
Slab Allocator And Wait Queues (2 Replies)
Bubble Reading — 119684294005 Dec 2007*
Hi, Does someone know if there is something like Linux Slab Allocator and Linux Wait Queues in FreeBSD? I am trying to port a linux code to FreeBSD wh...
Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (32 Replies)
David Southwell — 119684744405 Dec 2007*
Enough!! There are few demons in the heads of the freebsd community that require controlling. Apart from the owning ones own prejudices here are my ow...
Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (19 Replies)
Paul Schmehl — 119685126305 Dec 2007*
root@utd59514# make deinstall distclean ===> Deinstalling for x11/xdm ===> Deinstalling xdm-1.1.6_2 pkg_delete: package 'xdm-1.1.6_2...
has FreeBSD's libc been swigged? (6 Replies)
Chuck Robey — 119687728405 Dec 2007*
Need to do some python work, using a lot of FreeBSD's base libs, and I was wondering, if any ports have swigged the FreeBSD libs? I'll do it i...
Port System Re-Engineering (16 Replies)
Aryeh M. Friedman — 119688568705 Dec 2007*
As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as ...
Luis Angel — 119692376406 Dec 2007
Hi there, freebsd sparc doesn't have the package smbfs ? or the mount_smbfs ? thanks....
Yuri Y Kuznetsov — 119692885206 Dec 2007
Hello! Recently I found that ab (apache benchmark) utility prints small time intervals incorrectly. The problem is the wrong printf format for microse...
rebuilding Postfix to ad MySQL support (4 Replies)
jekillen — 119695896806 Dec 2007*
Hello; Can I get some advice: I have Postfix installed from package at system install. I am trying to set up Cyrus Imap and Cyradm. These have specifi...
Clint Olsen — 119696257706 Dec 2007
Hi: I searched around the net a bit, but I wasn't able to find anything definitive. How are we supposed to find this file? => Attempting to fet...
O. Hartmann — 119697638506 Dec 2007
Hello. I try to use DBI:Pg and DBI:MySQL within a ruby-skript for accessing either MySQL or PostgreSQL database. Box is FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 Mysql is mys...
java/jdk15 (5 Replies)
Joshua Tinnin — 119698016106 Dec 2007*
"Due to licensing restrictions, certain files must be fetched manually. "Please open http://download.java.net/tiger/ in a web browser. ...
FreeBSD Port: pidgin-2.2.2 (2 Replies)
Lockdown — 119698316706 Dec 2007*
Hello, I was just wondering if you were working on the port for pidgin-2.3.0. The only reason I ask is because I would like to upgrade to 2.3.0 for th...
HELP needed by experienced porter for simple review (13 Replies)
GP — 119698341506 Dec 2007*
Any body?Ok. thanks. Its simple so I will just put in in this mail. I hope to have the ability to make changes in the source, so I've included the...
Ian FREISLICH — 119700523607 Dec 2007
Hi The net/asterist-addons port is marked as broken for >7.0 because it doesn't compile. While this is true, the folling patch solves the probl...
FreeBSD Port: ossp-uuid-1.6.0 (3 Replies)
Bradford Castalia — 119700936207 Dec 2007*
The current distribution package does not include the C++ API support. This is important for those of us depending on this API for support of applicat...
Markus Hoenicka — 119703654007 Dec 2007
Hi, this is just to let you know that a new upstream release 0.9.9-1 is available: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?... I'll be happy ...
finding configuration options used (1 Reply)
jekillen — 119704227407 Dec 2007*
Hello: I am in the process of setting up Cyrus SASL for Postfix. Is there a way to determine what configuration options where used to build Cyrus SASL...
augmenting a port: request for advice (5 Replies)
Andriy Gapon — 119707160107 Dec 2007*
There is a port, sysutils/udfclient, that I maintain. I also have some code (written by myself) that acts as a FUSE-glue (sysutils/fusefs-*) for udfcl...
(Very) bogus package dependencies (16 Replies)
Alex Goncharov — 119707710308 Dec 2007*
There has been a point recently made on a `freebsd-' list about unnecessary dependencies of the `xorg-server' package, it being dependent on `...
Doug Barton — 119709773108 Dec 2007*
If you're interested in xscreensaver support for pam and/or kerberos, please take a look at http://dougbarton.us/Downloads/xs-504-pam-ker.... You ...
Andreas Schwarz — 119721126109 Dec 2007
Hi, milter-greylist-devel is completely outdated (2.0b1) and older than milter-greylist (3.0), I think it is better to remove it. best regards, Andrea...
port: milter-greylist-devel (1 Reply)
Andreas Schwarz — 119723388909 Dec 2007*
Hi, milter-greylist-devel is completely outdated (2.0b1) and older than milter-greylist (3.0), I think it is better to remove it. best regards, Andrea...
Søren Schrøder — 119723437709 Dec 2007
Greeting... I see that you are the maintainer of the libtorrent/rtorrent port. A new stable version: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/libto... ...