Recently some of users who use my ports contacted me with some issues they’re facing. If you know me from my FreeBSD ports, then please pardon me for not updating my ports yet. I was planning to do them last weekend, but due to a dragon^Wcatastrophe which caused my box chateau.d.if to feel hot again. [...]
If you started using under-documented ports-mgmt/portconf software to manage options of your ports, and looking forward to convert existing /var/db/ports/${PORTNAME}/options files to its format, then check out following script, I hacked: % cd /var/db/ports; % for i in *; do \ > name=$(echo /usr/ports/*/$i |sed -e ‘s/distfiles\/[^[:space:]]*//g’ -e s/\/usr\/ports\///g);\ > cat $i/options |gawk ‘!/#/ && [...]
Submitted a PR for solang on FreeBSD. UPDATE: Checkout graphics/solang.
Since I’ve heard about invention of IA-64 architecture in 2002, I was interested in everything its box comes with, be it Itanium CPU, EFI firmware, or GPT disk partioning. It was always my dream to play with those things. Itanium was too expensive and most of the humans I’ve worked with never have any need [...]
This time instead of installing FreeBSD from magnetic or optical media, I’ve installed it over network with the help of the instructions. For this installation, I’ve used my Arch GNU/Linux box to become server (TFTP server, DHCP server, NFS server). I downloaded the DVD of 8.0-BETA2 version, loop mounted it on my box, and exported [...]
