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It's all done in your local working copies. You're not actually 'pushing' those changes to the FreeBSD git repositories because that would indeed require authorization. Yes, and you can make that patch quite simply; git diff main, or even...

I really don't understand what is this whole 'alternative browser' nonsense. Do you want to do finance and be safe? Get a cheapest brand name tablet or smartphone. Don't do anything on that device bar install the app(s), and work with them. Do...

the hour was about it and feels embarrassing. Can't remember it was like this the previous times. But I'm happy 15.1 is running, roughly six hours after starting the upgrade, thanks all for you assistence and patience! P.S.: No...

Sorry, but what do you mean by "just didn't write the C"? To upstream your proposed changes, you wouldn't be asking people to discuss your ideas, your architecture, or anything like that. You'd be asking them to review the code you provide. When...

Simple workflow example: poudriere ports -c -D -p devports cd /usr/local/poudriere/ports/devports git checkout -b mydev_branch # make your changes to the port and commit those. poudriere bulk -j 151-release -p devports -f mypackagelist.txt # or...

I wouldnt bother, i have run mac osx with qemu on nixos Its a absolute pain to set up and basically unusable https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM When you run the installer the mouse doesnt work properly it moves really slowly and stutters which...

Branch the ports tree poudriere uses. Commit your updates to this development branch. Update the main branch, then rebase your development branch with main. Let poudriere build packages using your development branch. Note that by default...

If it was working, it should support Windows clients, as well as Linux and FreeBSD clients.

smartclt -a /dev/da0 for example. iostat -x 1 Keep an eye on the %b numbers. That's the "busy" percentage. If it's consistently above 90 then your drive simply isn't fast enough for the amount of I/O it has to process. %b % of...

I would say it really depends on what you need customized, and how often you update packages. If it is just a few programs you want to customize, then you could just build those from ports, lock them, and remember to rebuild if you want to...

Looks like lvshmem presents a PCIe device to the guest. That sounds usable from FreeBSD, not to mention pretty sophisticated and potentially fast. Not sure about the host side.

P.S. I don't have experience with warrant searches, but with warrantless, where the actual person reveals something to the police - case where police asks you 'what do you have on yourself/in your car' or the person lets them into their premises...

There are too many assumptions here. Yes the police has probable cause at their disposal. They can see something and react upon it, no need for a warrant. I mean if they saw someone beating somebody through a window, they don't need to record it...

It's not. Alain's spelling skills have suffered a bit lately. We don't do this in Europe. That's a USA thing.

Although it's an off topic subforum, I don't see the point of it being posted here.

smartctl from sysutils/smartmontools is good to get some internal data from the disks themselves. At the freebsd-update install phases nothing is downloaded from the internet, that only happens during the 'fetch' or 'upgrade' stages. Fetch or...

Wow, we sure do seem to have a lot of advice. Alain De Vos hasn't posted in this thread since Monday. We've also made a lot of guesses with not too much information. Hard to give advice, or suggestions, without really knowing what happened...

Are your disks still good? The upgrade/update process uses quite a bit of I/O. If you have a bad disk writing performance it's going to take ages. Also, do you have the sources installed in /usr/src/? If freebsd-update has to update those it's...

That's the "best" way and will make sure all package dependencies line up correctly with your custom options. Really only for the first build. After that you simply point pkg to the local custom repository, for example: dicelan: { enabled...

Greetings all, despite reading topics on (not)mixing ports and packages, I still have some misconception(s). As best as I understand it, if one changes an option, the custom-built package may depend on a package B instead of the default package...

OS-level virtualization is not as perfect as hardware-level virtualization. Containers run the same kernel as the host, and in most cases, if an application needs a file, a directory, or a device, these resources must be shared; therefore, this...

Looks like you're trying to install FreeBSD. Would you like some help?

You did bring the fireproof underwear, did you? How big do you think the install media would have to be, to the next 10GB mark?

I retested this while physically in the machine and the machine is responsive. So, i it seems there are no hangs, except remotely over ssh. I will close this issue and will keep using and report back if i notice (and can reproduce) the hangs i...

Ahahahahaha then you are luky. My father use the smartphone only for set timers when take pills (I set timers, not him). This is all the technology he use. I installed Alexa, it lasted less than a minute "Take that thing and throw it away" he said.

He knows where I live :eek: All jokes aside, my mom would definitely call me basically begging me to call my dad because he's driving her nuts. Thankfully remote desktop exists, because trying to guide my dad over the phone was, ehm, painful...

Yes, of course, I didn't specify. I stick to the ports system: the one offered by the makefiles. They should be reliable.

To go down on the dependency chain is easy (get the list of port that a port depend on: Port A depends on Port B and Ports C, Port B depends on Port D ... and so on down on the chain for all branches). The other way is a bit more complicated...

Of course. My mistake. Try "buildworld buildkernel" again. On my system, sometimes creating a cdrom terminates with an error, building again helps. If that doesn't help, you could ask on the freebsd-pkgbase@ mailing list about "NOPKGBASE"...

Built Samba 4.23 from ports, selecting MIT Kerberos. Used samba-tool to configure it samba-tool domain provision --use-rfc2307 --realm=SAMBA.EXAMPLE.COM --domain=SAMBA --server-role=dc --dns-backend=SAMBA_INTERNAL --option="interfaces =...

You should block his number for 10 days.

Maybe people have been reading the handbook, using pciconf -lv commands, manually installing the correct port for their hardware?

I don't want to get too close into people's personal life ... but sadly, I agree that eternal_noob's conclusion is likely. Dear Alain: If you need help getting your life organized and your problems straightened out, it is difficult for people on...

I have been wanting to build a robot. I started with aspirations of an autonomous Radio Controlled boat back many moons ago. Well ArduPilot has a module called ROVER. Made for autopiloting Boats and Rolling Vehicles. It should fit the bill. I...

I got Widevine component to show up but MSE is not there when Udemy does a scan on Chromium so there could be more than just needing widevine for this.

scottro that port has been around for a while and has been suggested in lots of threads here. What it does is offers simple "one stop" install of all/most packages needed for a given desktop environment, but I don't believe it includes GPU...

Don't use ping to test name resolving. Wrong tool for the job, use drill or host. drill is useful because you can point it to a specific DNS server. Use ping to test if you're actually connected to the internet, without plain TCP/IP working DNS...

Not in the Netherlands, and as far as I know not in Belgium (laws regarding animal welfare are fairly similar). This might have some useful information for you Alain De Vos https://advocatenbureau-gevaco.be/huisdieren-in-beslag-genomen-handel-snel/

Oh... I brought my computer home to upgrade it and it assigned the Comcast dns... 🤦‍♂️

Alain De Vos If you don't want to lawyer up, or can't, maybe go see a priest about this? Most of them will help you with this, and will not be judgemental. And you said your brother walked your dog also, so he could ask for the dog to be returned...

Complain at Comcast Xfinity, apparently their DNS servers are regularly rather dodgy.

How do you actually use this? Some /proc entry?

That's the error message sh gives when trying to execute something that doesn't exist. You can start /bin/sh from the console, say "foo", and you'll get the same "foo: not found" message. So your script attempted to execute "root" as a command...

Subtle, easily overlooked. #/bin/sh Take a really good look at that first line.

I've kind-of wondered about something like a FPV camera on a drone (Fedora Discussion) Technically it's unmanned by putting a camera on it, produced when I use OS tools to download VLC, and talking about/sharing specifics might be questionable...

The fibre optic cable keeps breaking.

And we don't really need more unnecessary sources for orbital debris that poses serious issues for other spacecrafts.

There is what seems to be an official document on the desktop installer, sysutils/desktop-installer, at https://freebsdfoundation.org/resource/installing-a-desktop-environment-on-freebsd/. I haven't tried it, but it seems to have a reasonable...

but the article says that desktop appears in 15 release...btw..using fbsd with fvwm since 10 release

Of course. My mistake. Try "buildworld buildkernel" again. On my system, sometimes creating a cdrom terminates with an error, building again helps. If that doesn't help, you could ask on the freebsd-pkgbase@ mailing list about "NOPKGBASE"...