Ports

apr ports devrandom option
The devel/apr* ports have an option to use /dev/random, which is on by default. I was wondering under what circumstances anyone would turn that off. As far as I can see switching it off doesn't replace /dev/random with anything else. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org... 17 Jun 2010 00:18

stuff I'd like to have committed in time to make it into 8.1
OpenArena (maintainer timeout) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/146818 wacom (approved patch by Alex Deiter) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/146495 Should there be any reasons why this hasn't been committed yet, I'd like to be told. portlint makes a huge fuss about the slave... 16 Jun 2010 02:22

RFC: Mk/bsd.jpeg.mk to automagically handle jpeg dependency
Hi, Ever since the addition of graphics/libjpeg-turbo, I had been wondering how one could possibly build the whole ports tree with it instead of graphics/jpeg. I wanted the choice. Therefore, I wrote the attached bsd.jpeg.mk as a suggestion. With it, we just add USE_JPEG= yes to any port that requir... 17 Jun 2010 19:00

Conflict to solve between bazaar and gd
Hi, There is a conflict between graphics/gd and devel/bazaar, cf. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=147418 Would it be acceptable to rename the bzr's annotate command into a bzr-annotate command, as gd is older than bzr? -- Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson _________________________________________... 16 Jun 2010 12:09

databases/php5-odbc vs. libiodbc
Currently the databases/php5-odbc PHP extension is hardcoded to be compiled with unixODBC backend, so the users that have libiodbc installed (as a dependency of kde4 ports, for ex.) can't installed the first 'cause those two ODBC ports conflict with each other. The php-odbc configure script however says (./c... 13 Jul 2010 07:36

Error message when starting hp-systray
Evidently the Port: hplip-3.10.5_1 does not have a full time maintainer. In any case, I have noticed this notation in the system log when starting KDE: Jun 15 10:24:37 scorpio python: hp-systray[3768]: error: option -s not recognized There does not appear to be any apparent problem though. Is there some way to... 15 Jun 2010 13:10

Now OK (Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/stumpwm Makefile)
x11-wm/stumpwm, which was previously failing is OK after this commit. Thanks for fixing it! A description of the testing process can be found here: http://T32.TecNik93.com/FreeBSD/QA-Tindy/ Thanks for your work on making FreeBSD better, -- QAT - your friendly neighborhood Daemon, preparing a heck of a... 14 Jun 2010 09:32

gnupg-2.0.14_3 + libassuan problem
Hi Is anyone else seeing problems with Upgrading 'gnupg-2.0.14_2' to 'gnupg-2.0.14_3' .... configure: *** *** You need libassuan with Pth support to build this program. *** This library is for example available at *** ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libassuan/ *** (at least version 1.0.4 (API 1) is requ... 14 Jun 2010 17:22

Current unassigned ports problem reports
(Note: an HTML version of this report is available at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=ports .) The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. ... 14 Jun 2010 07:20

LICENSE questions
I'm working on adding LICENSE information to my ports, and have a few questions. A lot of my ports are ISC products, and they have the following: http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/COPYRIGHT.txt I also have dns/fpdns which has this: http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/LICENSE.txt which looks like it could be BSD,... 14 Jun 2010 20:43