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Updating ports after FreeBSD6 upgrade

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:55:24 +0200

I've recently moved to FreeBSD6 (from 5.4). The recommended upgrade procedure is to rebuild all ports, but as I am a lazy person (or maybe impatient?), I did not want to wait 3 days until all was rebuilt - especially ports like evolution, firefox/mozilla and openoffice really takes ages to compile.

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FreeTDS prepares release of 0.64

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:42:34 +0100

The FreeTDS development team is planning the next major release: 0.64. In preparation, they'll release a release candidate on one of the next weekends.

To be prepared (and out of curiosity on the new features), I've updated the freetds port (for FreeBSD) to install todays snapshot.

If you want to give it a try, download the port dir here.

To install, perform these tasks:
cd /usr/ports/databases && tar xzf ~/freetds-064-current.tar.gz portupgrade -o databases/freetds-devel freetds portupgrade -rf freetds-devel -x freetds-devel

This should replace your current freetds port with the -devel port and rebuild all dependencies (such as sqsh or php4-sybase_ct).

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Upgrade to FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:33:25 +0100

Just upgraded my system to 6.0-RELEASE. In general, it went smoothely. The only caveat I had was that the wireless network now requires a new parameter that was optional before.

I haven't found that being mentioned anywhere, but this blog entry helped me. I added webtxkey:1 to the ifconfig line in /etc/rc.conf and it worked again.

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php-gtk port updated to 1.0.2

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 12:41:38 +0200

I've just updated the FreeBSD port of php-gtk to the latest version.

The update is necessary, because a) the php-gtk developers hardcoded the check on PHP 4.3.x into configure, so configure stopped working with the release of PHP 4.4. And b) phpize requires PHPAUTOCONF and PHPAUTOHEADER variables be set, which is done now, too.

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Evolution bugs suck

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:33:45 +0100

All bugs suck actually. I've just been browsing through the Ximian Bugzilla to search for Evolution bugs and found two which I know.

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No Such Application for ZFS

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:32:03 +0200

There was a lengthy discussion about Sun's ZFS (beware: marketing article) of hackers@FreeBSD.org. The discussion focused on the 128 bit of storage size for sector addressing when it got funny:

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Port committed: databases/sybase_ase

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:23:12 +0200

While I've been on vacation, Thierry Thomas committed the port I created over one year ago (see pr 50068).

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Crawling through the abysses of keyboard configuration in X

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 13:49:42 +0200

It's a mess. Once again, I'm trying to get my keyboard set up in a way that it just works. It almost seems impossible to do in X due to the history of (virtual) consoles/terminals.

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Recursive FTP put onto XBOX

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:07:10 +0200

I had trouble using well-known ftp clients for recursive put operation onto my xbox.

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New port: Ximian Connector

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:57:50 +0200

I've just filed a pr for Ximian Connector an Evolution plugin.

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Compiling FreeTDS from CVS

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:50:32 +0200

Some little tweaks are neccessary to compile the CVS checkout of FreeTDS on FreeBSD.

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FreeTDS 0.62.3 released

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:59:04 +0200

The next stable version of FreeTDS has just been released, see the announcing post.

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Having fun with the kernel

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:02:07 +0200

I though about upgrading my FreeBSD-box in the office and went into major trouble.

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