Category: FreeBSD ports collection
AMANDA 3.3.2 and #undef bool
I upgraded a stable/8 i386 system and switched from lang/perl5.16 to lang/perl5.20 only to experience problems with swig generated code for AMANDA. I have confirmed this behaviour on stable/9 amd64 too. I found 17 files containing these three lines: This results in error messages such as:
Read More → AMANDA 3.3.2 and #undef boolpkg2ng – some notes from my experience
The announced EOL of the old pkg_* tools is coming fast. Here are some notes from my experience on converting from the old /var/db/pkg structure to the new SQLite 3 based approach, pkg(ng).
Read More → pkg2ng – some notes from my experienceLocal slave port for emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions without OpenGL and X11
I have a bunch of FreeBSD VMs running in VirtualBox. They all share a number of virtual harddrives, and among them are a virtual harddrive with the common contents of /var/db/ports. My ports configuration of emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions have the OPENGL and X11 options set. This is useless on some of my simpler VMs, as those VMs […]
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Using GraphViz to visualize the runtime dependencies of the installed ports
If you’re curious to find out how all your installed ports depend upon each other, you might want to run this neat, little script saving its output to a file, and install graphics/graphviz.
Read More → Using GraphViz to visualize the runtime dependencies of the installed portsParallel build of mail/thunderbird in FreeBSD?
Update 2014-08-07: r363978, dated Mon Aug 4 09:11:25 2014 UTC, solves the parallel build bug once and for all, and there’s no need for the Makefile.local as shown below. I’ve been scratching my head over why mail/thunderbird doesn’t build in parallel when www/firefox does. Research reveals MAKE_JOBS_SAFE was removed last August, in r324744. I can’t […]
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Coping with portupgrade’s inability to handle new dependencies
I grew tired of handholding portupgrade because of the latter’s inability to handle new dependencies. The script below is the result of my frustration. The script is available for downloading at http://ximalas.info/~trond/create-zfs/canmount/upgrade-outdated-ports.sh.
Read More → Coping with portupgrade’s inability to handle new dependenciesWITHOUT_NEW_XORG=yes → true
I’m probably not paying enough attention to new developments in FreeBSD after all. After updating the installed ports in my VMs running base/head and base/stable/10, X11 stopped working. It turns out the new version of X.org requires KMS and what not in the kernel. This doesn’t fare well with VMs running inside VirtualBox. The solution? […]
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Is it just me or does portupgrade 2.4.12,2 have issues detecting changes in a port’s dependencies, particularly added dependencies?
Read More → portupgrade and issues with added dependenciesFreeBSD and IPv6 only – February 2014
I tried FreeBSD base/head with only an IPv6 address configured on the NIC. While installing some ports, I soon ran into the problem of living in more or less total isolation.
Read More → FreeBSD and IPv6 only – February 2014Your own port in the FreeBSD ports tree
Creating your own port in the FreeBSD ports tree makes 3rd party software maintenance at lot easier.
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