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Google search is awful these days So using AI like Gemini can sometimes help finding the information you are looking for However it can also send you on a wild goose chase When it works it can helpful, until it goes haywire in which case you...

Doing a build is a good litmus test for your hardware. It'll burn through a lot of memory, fire up all cores and produce a ton of I/O.

Oh, right, it was already removed from the 14 base. All the more reason to stop using it.

It's 13.x. ports-mgmt/portsnap $ grep portsnap /usr/ports/MOVED ports-mgmt/portsnap||2026-05-04|Has expired: portsnap infrastructure will be removed after the EOL of 13.x

For ports: ports-mgmt/poudriere, ports-mgmt/Synth. Build what exactly in parallel? It already does, where possible. If you're looking for ways to speed up the build, have a look at WITH_META_MODE; https://wiki.freebsd.org/MetaMode It's not...

Please stop using portsnap. When 14 is EoL the entire portsnap infrastructure will be removed.

We don't support that here when ports and packages already exist. Use the ports or the packages.

Why would you want to use the upstream sources when we have two ports and two corresponding packages? Besides, the sourceforge sources won't build on on FreeBSD without patches.

Maybe it's a dependency or build issue (not sure details), but FreshPorts only shows 15/16 latest pkgs at the moment (and older vers for 13): https://www.freshports.org/net-im/signal-desktop Did signal work before with node-npm24? Iirc on...

That will work for the same version (MAJOR.MINOR). Come back in the next major or in two minors and the steps may not work. List of stuff that may change between the next 15.x minors: DRM setup for your hardware (old versions may drop out of...

I think I can set it up, because I saved all the relevant steps into a text file and uploaded it to Google drive :cool:

Yep. If I'm going to use it I look at its response but then check to see what it recommends so I understand exactly what it's doing. So if it says to do something like "set sys.kern.widget to zero" I'm going to make sure I know what that does and...

I was joking about the if statement obviously im sure most users on the forum and the mods wouldnt want to deal with lots of new users who cant be bothered to read the handbook or man pages And who have just used AI to try and install Freebsd...

Windows :cool: That's kind of an interesting point for me as of recent: FreeBSD still offers a lot for me to mess with and learn while it can stand as a usable desktop. I can do more with gaming from Windows and general stuff like connecting to...

Maybe not make a typo in the name? It's postgresql18-server, not postgresqll8-server.

For me, all that came as a later problem to figure out and solve :D AI isn't reliable so I can't take it's output. I look around online for others that ran into similar situations, look at various ways to solve it, figure out a clean way to...

Can anyone shed any light on what is going on here? Installing supplied packages...

pkg install something anotherthing morestuff | tee messages-log.txt You could use a simple redirect of course, but then you won't see any output on the screen. Hence the use of tee.

pkg install something anotherthing morestuff | tee messages-log.txt You could use a simple redirect of course, but then you won't see any output on the screen. Hence the use of tee.

Sort of, but I would like to create log of of these msgs at the time they are installed

I hope there is an option to not install a X11 login manager. I use Xorg, nvidia and KDE and wouldn't mind at all if the installer could just set it all up. But I don't use login managers. I don't think there is much leeway in installing the...

The developer of the desktop support functionality uses fwget to figure out whether or not it's possible to load drm-kmod and which firmware is needed (though there is still work needed on this). For nvidia he's created a map with the pci-ids...

Great. Do we have that as a port, or is it inside their install procedure? Where can I find more details on it, quick google isn't revealing much?

Are you sure? GhostBSD seems to do it, what used to be TrueOS (ixSystems) did the same too

Easily done after the fact, pkg info -Da > messages.txt -a, --all Display all installed packages. -D, --pkg-message Show the pkg-message for matching packages. pkg-info Edit: Didn't you ask this before?

Does anyone have any tips on how to automatically record msgs from pkg install when installing pkgs so they can be referred to subsequently? An alias with additional commands would be useful.

FlipperZero does infrared I believe. https://docs.flipper.net/zero/infrared More Antennas https://swling.com/blog/2022/08/small-unidirectional-loop-antenna-sula-part-2-construction-notes/

Install x11/cde and follow the post install message instructions.

Unix is my IDE

This means changing Python users in lang/python*

For that reason defining a strict rule in the AFFECTS make usable pkg updating without modifying the already existing code of pkg updating

Note that pkg is still under active development. And I think this is why in-base pkg is just a bootstrap tool and actual one is provided via ports/pkgs.

T-Aoki Ok, you are right, there are a lot of things that plays this game and complicate the job, but returning to the initial problem: running pkg updating get me the list of installed ports that I must pay attention before upgrading them. It...

Unfortunately, it's not always correct. There are hidden dependencies that even the maintainer don't notice. This often happenes when the port is using some kind of toolkits and the port itself seemingly using the toolkit only, but some calls...

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Finished... took almost 3 days long to build this! I have vscode again, yeah!

Im waiting for posts like this sudo systemd install freebsd The problem with AI is you are sub contracting your brain to a machine You dont learn anything Mentally you cant think things through or have any critical thinking to get things...

Were you able to get DRM content to play under your system? I'm taking classes online and video in the course won't load due to this issue.

I'm using the 340 driver version it still works for video playback while it has a black screen issues that recently somehow resolved itself when looking through the xorg opengl extension.

A lack of RTFA has been an issue for as long as I can remember. Then again, documentation in general has been in decline across many projects. I personally learned more from The Complete FreeBSD and FreeBSD Diary than just about anything. Even MS...

It's weird because according to what I read in the postfix mailing list, my postfix should be failing with lmdb 1.0 and it doesn't. After deleting my postscreen cache (which then postfix recreates), I can simply query it with postmap -s...

I do not think there is need to go deep in dependencies ('required' and 'depend on'), only the direct port reference of the entry is necessary to check if it is installed and display the entry to the user. For 99% of the ports port/pkg updating...

One way would be to allow multiple (and unlimited) number of AFFECTS lines per entry, terminated by following (first, once multiple lines are allowed) AUTHOR line, forbid wildcards and force one port per line. And maybe something like...

I've been testing my new preamp out... :)

Incidentally, I noticed (via a comment in the thread that freethread linked to earlier) that the Porter's Handbook actually does say what the format of the file (quote) "is" (that being with a machine-parseable AFFECTS line), and moreover gives...

The issue is not installing a "desktop" installing a desktop is easy # pkg install xorg wayland seatd gnome mate kde kde-gear kdevelop kdesdk kdeccessibility calligra libreoffice that gives you all the software...

Very cool, again. It is too bad that make doesn't have output to arbitrary file descriptors such as shell has: ls 1>&3 and then redirect from the outside ./myscript 3> myfile I missed this for some ports work long ago.

Im waiting for posts like this sudo systemd install freebsd The problem with AI is you are sub contracting your brain to a machine You dont learn anything Mentally you cant think things through or have any critical thinking to get things...

Thanks! I chose the PPM format, since it is simple and text based. I did have issues coming up with a clean way of outputting an image. Since I set my goal to use absolutely no external binaries (Not even recalling make itself), I had to come up...

Well, on the bright side the LLM in use did have enough specialized knowledge about FreeBSD (without mixing it up with Linux knowledge) to be an overall win. I also have good experience, the major problem being misunderstandings such as which...