FreeBSD is moving to Git
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.
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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.
Read More → Migrating to Mailman 3Adding a Cisco Catalyst 2960X switch to a Cisco Catalyst 2960S switch stack
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.
Read More → Adding a Cisco Catalyst 2960X switch to a Cisco Catalyst 2960S switch stackDon’t use loader_color="YES" in /boot/loader.conf on stable/11
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.
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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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