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1999-04-01 Thread Randy Bush
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Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread William R. Somsky
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 02:22:57PM -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I think this entire thing is a massive botch and needs to be removed > > as a bad idea ASAP. > > I think that's jumping to conclusions a little too quickly. > > Jordan, we are eli

Re: WORM & CAM CD

1999-04-01 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Smelly Pooh wrote... > Has the worm driver been taken out of current? Yes. You have to use cdrecord now for SCSI CD burners. > If so does the CAM CD driver > handle ATAPI CD-Rs or what is the new way of doing it? No, you need to use the IDE/ATAPI CDROM driver. wormcontrol will talk to that dri

Re: Handbook DocBook cutover complete

1999-04-01 Thread Brian Feldman
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Joseph T. Lee wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:34:27AM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: > > Doc is a nice format, but it's not hypertext. Check out > > ports/palm/pilot_makedoc > > TealDoc's version supports graphics and links. Is it a published format, though? I know TealDoc i

Re: Handbook DocBook cutover complete

1999-04-01 Thread Joseph T. Lee
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:34:27AM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: > Doc is a nice format, but it's not hypertext. Check out > ports/palm/pilot_makedoc TealDoc's version supports graphics and links. -- Joseph nugundam =best=com==/==\=IIGS=/==\=Playstation=/==\=Civic HX CVT=/==\ #Anime Expo 1

WORM & CAM CD

1999-04-01 Thread Smelly Pooh
Has the worm driver been taken out of current? If so does the CAM CD driver handle ATAPI CD-Rs or what is the new way of doing it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Kevin Day
> :It's not just a matter of turning them off though. A few of the games in the > :distro are trademark infringements. While the product I'm developing that > :uses FreeBSD doesn't have the games installed, it brought up the comment > :from our lawyers "What else are they infringing on that we *are

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:It's not just a matter of turning them off though. A few of the games in the :distro are trademark infringements. While the product I'm developing that :uses FreeBSD doesn't have the games installed, it brought up the comment :from our lawyers "What else are they infringing on that we *are* using?

Re: Adaptec 3950U2B Ver 2.11.0

1999-04-01 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Andrew N. Edmond (Nero) wrote... > Our hardware vendor, in an effort to save us PCI slot space, fitted us > with a new 3950U2B instead of the old 3940 (no longer in production!) > cards we were used to. All documents on FreeBSD.org say that FreeBSD 3.1 > supports this card. However, /stand/sysins

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Kevin Day
> On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Rod Taylor wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, why are there games included in the FreeBSD > > source tree? > > > > For a group of people that was so worried about including dhcp because > > it's extra code, don't you think it's time to make those games into > > ports only? > >

Re: Dates off by 1 year (was: Fools Day Joke ?)

1999-04-01 Thread John Polstra
Dan Nelson wrote: > I've seen this too, on other FTP servers. I doubt it's an NFS problem, > since there is no reason for NFS to add/subtract exactly one year from > the date. ... > So I'd say it's a bug in NcFTP's date parser. Bingo! It looks like you're right. I noticed that the file's time w

Re: Dates off by 1 year (was: Fools Day Joke ?)

1999-04-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 01), John Polstra said: > In article , Nickolay Dudorov > wrote: > >There is some strangenes in date on file > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM/cvs-cur/cvs-cur.5198.gz > > > > -r--r--r- 1 603 207 49741 apr 1 1998 cvs-cur.5198.gz

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I think this entire thing is a massive botch and needs to be removed > as a bad idea ASAP. I think that's jumping to conclusions a little too quickly. Jordan, we are eliminating a LOT more future PRs and FAQs by using this method. A few permission

Dates off by 1 year (was: Fools Day Joke ?)

1999-04-01 Thread John Polstra
In article , Nickolay Dudorov wrote: >There is some strangenes in date on file > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM/cvs-cur/cvs-cur.5198.gz > > -r--r--r- 1 603 207 49741 apr 1 1998 cvs-cur.5198.gz I changed the subject because I think this may actually be a

Adaptec 3950U2B Ver 2.11.0

1999-04-01 Thread Andrew N. Edmond (Nero)
Our hardware vendor, in an effort to save us PCI slot space, fitted us with a new 3950U2B instead of the old 3940 (no longer in production!) cards we were used to. All documents on FreeBSD.org say that FreeBSD 3.1 supports this card. However, /stand/sysinstall refuses to see it when I try to moun

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Charlie ROOT
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > Your statement "Nobody said cross compilation is easy :-)" By this smiley, I mean to infer that it is far from easy. > you're the ONLY one to demand it. OK, maybe even "demand" is wrong > If you were tal

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread John Baldwin
On 01-Apr-99 Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 10:43:51 EST, "Jason J. Horton" wrote: > >> also, don't you have the option to not have the games? > > The problem with NOGAMES is that it strips things that some people > consider "useful". The diffs I posted earlier today (same subj

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > Richard, don't forget that having /usr/src isn't required to build > > ports. > > I don't think that I did forget. I explicitly reference that situation. > > The real solution (re the TARGET) has to depend on something that the USER > sets for

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 10:43:51 EST, "Jason J. Horton" wrote: > > > also, don't you have the option to not have the games? > > The problem with NOGAMES is that it strips things that some people > consider "useful". The diffs I posted earlier today (same subject line) > rip

Re: AIC

1999-04-01 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Steven Plite wrote: > > > But there are *no* alternatives for notebooks, except parallel port > > SCSI. > > This isn't true. The 3.0 version of Newtek's Bus Toaster uses a Symbios > 53C500 chip. I think Newtek still makes them... I meant that there are no alternatives available in 3.x. > Gran

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 10:43:51 EST, "Jason J. Horton" wrote: > also, don't you have the option to not have the games? The problem with NOGAMES is that it strips things that some people consider "useful". The diffs I posted earlier today (same subject line) rip out the "games" and leave behind the

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Jason J. Horton
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Rod Taylor wrote: > Just out of curiosity, why are there games included in the FreeBSD > source tree? > > For a group of people that was so worried about including dhcp because > it's extra code, don't you think it's time to make those games into > ports only? > > I say this u

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami wrote: > * From: Richard Wackerbarth > * very short sided. > sighted :> Yes, a slight transfer error between my brain and 'sendmail'. > * There are two distinct environments to be considered. > * The HOST environment and the

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Jon Hamilton
In message <19990401052839.d11...@futuresouth.com>, "Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: } [ Yes, I'm sticking my nose in where it probably doesn't belong and } should get chopped off for it. It's a hobby ;] } } On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 02:36:14AM -0800, a little birdie told me } that Satoshi - the Wraith

Re: latest bsd.port.mk and FETCH_CMD

1999-04-01 Thread Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami
* From: Mikhail Teterin * With the latest changes to the bsd.port.mk, my local setting (in * /etc/make.conf) of: * FETCH_CMD=/usr/local/bin/runsocks /usr/bin/fetch -p * is ignored. It uses the default /usr/bin/fetch, which does nto work * for me... That's weird. The only change aroun

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > The natural tag for the TARGET would be in > > /usr/src/include. However, I can see some problems with this for > > the ports tree. > > Richard, don't forget that having /usr/src isn't required to build

latest bsd.port.mk and FETCH_CMD

1999-04-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
With the latest changes to the bsd.port.mk, my local setting (in /etc/make.conf) of: FETCH_CMD=/usr/local/bin/runsocks /usr/bin/fetch -p is ignored. It uses the default /usr/bin/fetch, which does nto work for me... My setup worked fine back on Sunday, when I built the last port...

Re: AIC

1999-04-01 Thread Steven Plite
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:55:23AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Brian Beattie wrote: > > > > > writing it would be a pain) because the only pccard scsi cards that are > > > out there are aic-6[23]60 based. > > > > Not having a pcmcia slot or card, I am not sure about support for this. > > On

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami
* From: Richard Wackerbarth * I have to agree that the problem is real. * However, let me point out that a "one identifier" solution is * very short sided. sighted :> * There are two distinct environments to be considered. * The HOST environment and the TARGET environment. *

make world fail with ctm src-cur.3809

1999-04-01 Thread Chan Yiu Wah
Hello, I tried to update my system with ctm upto src-cur.3809 and found the following error. Can anyone help ? thanks. Clarence === Error === In file included from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/libgroff/../../../../contrib/groff/libgroff/new.cc:24: /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/libgroff/../..

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > I have to agree that the problem is real. > However, let me point out that a "one identifier" solution is > very short sided. > > There are two distinct environments to be considered. > The HOST environment and the TARGET environment. > For convien

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
I have to agree that the problem is real. However, let me point out that a "one identifier" solution is very short sided. There are two distinct environments to be considered. The HOST environment and the TARGET environment. For convience, we should also consider a TOOLSET environment which is a c

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami
* From: "Matthew D. Fuller" * [ Yes, I'm sticking my nose in where it probably doesn't belong and * should get chopped off for it. It's a hobby ;] Don't worry, I enjoy chopping off noses. :) * On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 02:36:14AM -0800, a little birdie told me * that Satoshi - the Wraith -

Re: booting systems with lots of memory

1999-04-01 Thread Tony Finch
Mike Smith wrote: >Tony Finch wrote: >[serial console problems] >> We suspect a BIOS that's being too damn clever for its own good. > >That sounds about right. If your BIOS on the Intel box is set for a >serial console, you could try poking it again to make sure that it's set >for 9600 bps and t

RE: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Ladavac Marino
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel C. Sobral [SMTP:d...@newsguy.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 1:14 PM > To: Alexander Leidinger > Cc: curr...@freebsd.org; tr49...@rcc.on.ca > Subject: Re: Games > > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > > On 1 Apr, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > >

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ Yes, I'm sticking my nose in where it probably doesn't belong and should get chopped off for it. It's a hobby ;] On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 02:36:14AM -0800, a little birdie told me that Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami remarked > > The same situation arises whether the version info is in /var/db/pkg

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > On 1 Apr, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > Well, first of all, .profile, .cshrc and signature scripts are > > broken in the absense of fortune. > > If I remember correctly .cshrc contains > [ -x /usr/games/fortune ] && ... > so this shouldn't be an issue. Well, som

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami
* From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" * * Committing /var/db/pkg to mtree was fine, it probably should have been * there to begin with. Sticking things into it outside of pkg_add, * however, is evil. pkg_add "owns" this directory and every time we've * tried to go behind its back, so to speak, we'v

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 1 Apr, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Well, first of all, .profile, .cshrc and signature scripts are > broken in the absense of fortune. If I remember correctly .cshrc contains [ -x /usr/games/fortune ] && ... so this shouldn't be an issue. BTW.: My /usr/games contains nothing (3.1-Stable instal

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:48:50 EST, Rod Taylor wrote: > Just out of curiosity, why are there games included in the FreeBSD > source tree? Politics and hysterical raisins. If you don't want the "gamey" games, apply the diffs below to your source. Caio, Sheldon. Index: Makefile.inc1 =

Fools Day Joke ?

1999-04-01 Thread Nickolay Dudorov
There is some strangenes in date on file ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM/cvs-cur/cvs-cur.5198.gz -r--r--r- 1 603 207 49741 apr 1 1998 cvs-cur.5198.gz N.Dudorov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i