Trond's place

Commit 0b7f1af804f06a285717b490bef80e24648adcbe for src/main and commit 6e1fe6d26ea2939656c8286ccbd105a89d3349a3 for src/stable/13 bumped the version number for gnu/lib/libdialog from 8 to 9. Software such as ports-mgmt/dialog4ports complain when run, but make config doesn’t care when dialog4ports is being run around in the ports tree.

The FreeBSD Project is slowly moving away from Subversion to Git. This poses questions like how do I do a checkout, and how do I get the equivalent of Subversion’s revision numbers for use in scripts and filenames? This is not the official documentation, merely some notes for myself as I tag along.

Mailman 2.1 has served its purpose at work for several years. Python 2 is at its end of life in FreeBSD. It’s time to move on to Mailman 3 and Python 3, or to Sympa if I’m unsuccessful in getting Mailman 3 up & running. I’ll try and document each step along the way.

A few things must be done before adding a Cisco Catalyst 2960X switch to a Cisco Catalyst 2960S switch stack. I assume you know your way around Cisco IOS, and already have the necessary hardware components.

The bootloader in recent stable/11 always gave me trouble booting the kernel due to having loader_color=”YES” in my /boot/loader.conf. Strangely enough, the same setting is harmless in recent stable/12.

r554306 fixed the problem, as users of Poudriere was equally affected.

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.

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 […]

This server got a major upgrade at the end of June. The last time such a thing happened was back in early 2012.

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’

libdialog.so.8 → libdialog.so.9

FreeBSD is moving to Git

Migrating to Mailman 3

Adding a Cisco Catalyst 2960X switch to a Cisco Catalyst 2960S switch stack

Don’t use `loader_color="YES"` in `/boot/loader.conf` on `stable/11`

`devel/git` and `make config-conditional`

Split `install.wim` into `install.swm` and `install2.swm`

`shells/starship` and `custom` modules for SVN

New server hardware

`/etc/kboot.conf`