Ports

[freebsd-ports] autoconf install not playing well? (more info)
> Hi, I'm going through upgrading 1/2 a zillion ports on a machine, and while I was doing it all of a sudden I got notification the server was not responding. It seems /usr/local/bin/perl no longer existed. I went and checked my /usr/local/bin and only found : asgard# ls autoconf-2.53 au... 26 Dec 2007 17:32

havp and clamav support
Hi! Havp port is not built with clamav support mail# cat /var/db/ports/havp/options # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'. # No user-servicable parts inside! # Options for havp-0.85 _OPTIONS_READ=havp-0.85 WITHOUT_SSL=true WITH_CLAMAV=true WITHOUT_TROPHIE=true cd /usr/ports/www/havp/ mail# make ... 21 Dec 2007 06:16

FreeBSD Port: arm-elf-gcc-2.95.3
Hi, I looked in the ports database and saw your arm-elf-gcc port. The version is very old and therefore I decided to build it myself. Perhaps it is an idea to update the port to use gcc version 4.2 ? Best regards, Ewout Boks _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing ... 21 Dec 2007 04:35

Automated generation of /etc/resolv.conf from the rc.d
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:42:07AM +0000, Roy Marples wrote: Hi Eygene. You might get some ideas from this implementation then: http://packages.debian.org/sid/resolvconf At least it contains those ugly sed expression to edit forwarders in a named.conf. You may also want to look at openresolv... 20 Dec 2007 13:05

FreeBSD amd64 and tightvnc port
Hi! I just migrated from 32bit FreeBSD to amd64 and realised that the tightvnc-port wasnt supported. A helpful guy called Tsurutani Naoki <turutani(a)scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp> provided me some patches http://barutan.s296.xrea.com/nocache/tightvnc139-amd64-20071010.diff.gz and thightvnc did compile. Unfortuna... 10 Dec 2007 01:34

how to distinguish direct/indirect requirements?
It happened many times to me to ask myself: why I do have port XYZ installed? surely "something needs it", but what? "pkg_info -r/-R" are of little help, because every dependency of every dependency (and other ranks of indirect dependencies too) are simply registered as direct dependencies, so that pretty much ever... 10 Dec 2007 01:34

FreeBSD Port: pecl-APC-3.0.14
Hi Hopefully a useful reminder... http://pecl.php.net/package/APC/3.0.15 has been out for a couple of months and contains significant bug fixes over 3.0.14. I have hacked the current port with the following: root(a)mission# diff -u distinfo distinfo.orig --- distinfo Mon Nov 19 12:15:00 2007 +++ dis... 10 Dec 2007 01:33

Error: Building texproc/p5-XML-Parser
So trying to track down this diablo problem and having something similar (at least in appearance) with xchat. Trying to rebuild everything (IRC suggestion) with portupgrade -rRf xchat to no avail as I can't seem to build p5-XML-Parser ... it seems to be the only port on my system that won't build. ssfbsd# uname... 10 Nov 2007 09:09

Proposition: make x11/nvidia-driver independent of misc/compat5x
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:33:46AM -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: Hello, Using the patch below it is possible to make x11/nvidia-driver independent of misc/compat5x, by means of some library mapping. I did this successfuly on 6.x but still did not test on 7.x. I would like to hear some comment... 10 Nov 2007 09:09

Apache on Current Error
uname -a: FreeBSD px1.cwahi.com 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Fri Jul 20 08:42:22 EDT 2007 tony(a)db.cwahi.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CWahi amd64 px1 is a jail created with ezjail with nullfs mounted links I have built apache from an nfs mounted ports tree, and when I run it I get: px1# /usr/local/etc/r... 8 Aug 2007 13:42