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I'm trying to do a 10.3 to 11.0 upgrade. (It didn't work, so I did a restore, but that is the subject for another post after my second attempt.) In the process of doing the upgrade, the notes indicate that you should recompile programs that you installed from ports (i.e. source). Three...

Hello, I have installed a Gitlab instance on FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE through the ports tree. While basic features are functional, there are a few errors which I am unable to resolve. I have searched online regarding the various issues but I have not been able to find any solutions. I have...

When using make install clean this will clean up the workdir of the port and its dependencies, once everything is installed. Is there a way to do that after each individual port as well? So that once it is installed the workdir will be cleaned, before moving on to the next one? Maybe via some...

Like me, you might be struggling a lot with sound, ever since pulseaudio came up. However, there actually is an alternative that sparked out of the OpenBSD community. It's a light weight and just works. Sadly it isn't what applications use per default, so one is currently forced to use ports...

Hi everyone, After some of the system upgrades (I'm using synth) SMB gfvs functionality in x11-fm/pcmanfm stopped working. At the closer look I've noticed that devel/gvfs still depends on (and installs) net/samba-libsmbclient which the ports system now says is obsoleted: Port...

Hi all, Every time I run pkg upgrade or pkg install PKG, pkg asks me to install some apparently unnecessary packages. I'm running FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p8, using mainly packages, tracking the quarterly repo, and checking out the quarterly ports tree to match (using svn). I have compiled...

Hi, I'd like to create some rust ports. My major hurdle is that there is no ports/Mk/Uses/rust.mk yet and while I am eager to learn stuff my Rust, Porting, Makefile, etc. skills are below what's needed for that. I'd love to add ripgrep, as it is essentially working (compiling, etc.) out of the...

Hi all, I'd like to follow the quarterly package repository (because I value stability and reliability over new features), but I need to have a few packages compiled with custom options, and this results in a problem: Ports does not have a quarterly release, only a "rolling release" of sorts...

I try to build a FreeBSD Kernel and disable device sound. This is needed for my USB Sound: ASUS Essence One MKII MUSES Edition. To bring this hardware to work I want to install the port: audio/oss This port requires to disable the device sound in kernel. It works great with FreeBSD 10. Now I...

I'm getting the following error messages when I try to build and install the dar program from ports using portmaster and make: Updating database digests format: 100% Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages (of 0 packages in the...

Good day! I have a ffserver instance for rtsp broadcasting. And after ney year port upgrades, ffserver segfaults on client rtsp connection. I'm google about that issue, and it already known: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/5869 Is it possible to fix version in ports please? uname -a FreeBSD...

Good day Friends! Some day ago appears news about opera classic source code were on GitHub. https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/13434/opera-presto-code-in-github It is a non legal source code, so I have a question, if community will develope that code in non legal way is it possible to be in ports?

Hello everyone! I am trying to install omxplayer on my rasberry pi V2 from ports, since I could not find the package available. I believe I am prety close to the end after near 48 hours of instalation... :-| Unfortunately I got the following error: Can someone please give an hint on how to...

Hi there, Over time I changed something to apache/php and caused some weird issue. It was not apparent this was happening until web apps started to report suggested plugins were not available... 11.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p6 #0 r310492 Apache 2.4.25 via ports PHP 5.6.29 via ports...

Hello, I can't compile cmake-3.7.1: # /usr/ports/devel/cmake # make ########## Scanning dependencies of target cmake [ 73%] Building CXX object Source/CMakeFiles/cmake.dir/cmakemain.cxx.o [ 74%] Building CXX object Source/CMakeFiles/CPackLib.dir/CPack/IFW/cmCPackIFWGenerator.cxx.o [ 74%]...

Hello. I am a C/C++ Python and Java developer at the Elettra Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Trieste, Italy. For the control system we use and produce open source software, and we develop under linux. I have been a fan of FreeBSD since my laurea degree thesis back in 2004. To cope with work...

Hello everyone. After a long time spent with linux (we use it for development at work), I decided to go back and have a look at FreeBSD. I used to compile software using the ports collection. On the other side, I use gentoo linux and, as a developer and building everything from source in...

If this the wrong forums section to discuss Handbook matters, please, feel free to remove this thread or relocate it someplace more suitable :). Today, I decided to have a look at different means of managing the Ports Collection locally. I already found ports-mgmt/poudriere...

I have various packages installed on my server that were installed as binaries, with pkg install pkgname. Anyway for at least one or two it turns out I need to change the default options which means I need to use ports. Since everyone says you shouldn't mix ports with binaries, I guess I need to...

Hi friends! There is a outdated version of speech recognition system in ports tree, maybe someone update it to actual version?