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devel/git and make config-conditional
r554306 fixed the problem, as users of Poudriere was equally affected.
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Split install.wim into install.swm and install2.swm
sources\install.wim in recent releases of Windows 10 has exceeded FAT32’s maximum filesize of 4 GiB. If you only boot UEFI systems and you want to use memory sticks for better performance while installing, you must split sources\install.wim into smaller files. Luckily, the dism command can do this for you.
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shells/starship and custom modules for SVN
I recently discovered Starship cross-shell prompt, available in the FreeBSD ports collections as shells/starship. Since there’s no dedicated module for handling Subversion working copies, I added three custom modules to my configuration file. This way I can see the global and the local revision numbers, and a summary of the status flags of the files […]
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New server hardware
This server got a major upgrade at the end of June. The last time such a thing happened was back in early 2012.
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Just to remind myself that spaces are allowed before the equals sign. FreeBSD Install=’/boot/kernel/kernel vfs.root.mountfrom=cd9660:/dev/iso9660/13_0_CURRENT_POWERPC64_CD’
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Disable notifications in Google Chrome
Are you tired of desktop notifications in Google Chrome? Navigate to chrome://settings/content/notifications, and disable “Sites can ask to send notifications” near the top of the tab. Review the “Allow” section at the bottom. Click on the stacked dots button next to the entries that keep nagging you, and select “Block” or “Remove”.
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Update 2020-05-06 Python 2.7.18 was officially added to the ports collection in r534040. I didn’t even bother searching for a PR on the matter, and sure enough, PR 245776 exists and did a more thorough job than my own efforts. While Python 2.x.y is EoL, Python 2.7.18 was released a week ago, on 2020-04-20.
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Building devel/bitkeeper on stable/12 using ports-mgmt/synth isn’t straight forward as of r532246.
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net/ntopng and net/geoipupdate
I’ve been experimenting with net/ntopng and net/geoipupdate. The former comes with a shell script, ntopng-geoip2update.sh, which is stuck in the past. Instead, run these commands, creating the necessary symlinks:
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exec=on for /usr/src after base/head r359260
Update 2020-03-30: r359426 fixed this issue. We may again set exec=off or have noexec set in our /etc/fstab. If you mount /usr/src as noexec or have set the ZFS exec property to off, now is the time to allow executables to be run. r359260 added contrib/kyua/doc/manbuild.sh, which is run as part of make buildworld in […]
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