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Hello FreeBSD forum! I just installed FreeBSD for the first time and wanted to upgrade the whole system. (I'm planning on only using the pre-compiled packages, if that matters. And I have ran the # /usr/sbin/pkg command) But did I understand correctly that if I run # freebsd-update fetch #...

Firefox on my computer expresses a weird UI issue where many controls are rendered without their borders. For example, radios or checkboxes can be selected but are invisible, since they have no border. Also selecting text doesn't highlight the selected part of the text. I can select and copy the...

Setting: FreeBSD 11.0 RELEASE I have binary packages installed using pkg. Works great and fine in itself. I have installed from source some ports as the options used in the binary version was not what I needed. Works great and fine in itself. Mixing both as such works as advertised, but I'm...

Hi everyone I'm new in freeBSD world I'm on freeBSD 9.3 RELEASE I created a package of one standard freeBSD port by cd to port directory and using following command make package-recursive then I installed /usr/ports-mgmt/pkg now when i try to add package with "pkg add' , I get the...

I thought I'd do some digging on https://pkg.freebsd.org to see why I never got offered any package updates. For reference, here is my /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf. (I do not have a local copy in /usr/local/etc.) # $FreeBSD: stable/11/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf 263937 2014-03-30 15:24:17Z bdrewery $ # # To...

Hello, I am trying to install mariadb10.2 on FreeBSD 10.3, I find the port of mariadb102 is available, but the pkg seems not... I have done pkg update, and pkg search mariadb, but couldn't find the 10.2 version, should we need to wait for few more days if we want to use pkg? Thanks

Hi, I am experiencing a strange problem. For a while now I have been using poudriere to build my packages. I am running FreeBSD 11 Stable on amd64 and the poudriere jail is on the same revision as the host system. Poudriere, packaging upgrading, etc. works for the most part. But a problem...

Hello, I've a simple question. I'm not system administrator so maybe my knowledge is a bit outdated. So, I've 4 simple, cheap VPS servers (web, builder, devel (port maintaining) and backup) and it's a little complicated thing to login to every server and run pkg upgrade or freebsd-update fetch...

Hi! I have RPi with freebsd installed on it version 11. I made an image with crochet. I didn't install powerd. When I ran "pkg upgrade" and system become upgrading over 50 packages, RPi hangs and didn't respond on any commands untill I made hard reboot. It happens, when large package being...

I am looking to switch from using portmaster management to pkg/poudriere for management. I already have poudriere setup on an outside system and I am using it for some machines which I built using the poudriere setup from the beginning. I would like to begin using the poudriere/pkg setup for...

I am looking forward to install Node.js v6.10.0 on my FreeBSD 8.4 machine. $ sysctl -n kern.osrelease kern.ostype 8.4-RELEASE FreeBSD To Install Node.js using ports, it needs pkg v1.6.0 $ cd /usr/ports/www/node/ && make install clean ===> node-7.7.2 pkg(8) must be version 1.6.0 or...

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...

I was trying to configure the mirror site for binary packages but couldn't get it as I wanted. The overseas internet connection here in Korea is very bad (about 50KB/s at best and down to 500B/s in actual download speed per connection) while the local connection is very fast (around 8MB/s per...

Working on a new server build, I've noted that php 5.6 is out of its active maintenance window. I'd like to get something of a jump on things and install www/wordpress with php 7.0 dependencies (as I don't see php71 in the 11.0-RELEASE AMD64 quarterly repo). I've tried a few contortions of how...

FreeBSD 11.0 AMD64, NUT 2.7.4 from packages I installed the package without any errors. Config files are as follows: nut.conf MODE=standalone ups.conf [cpups] driver = "usbhid-ups" port = auto desc = "cp-ups" upsd.conf LISTEN 127.0.0.1 3493 upsd.users [monmaster]...

I am using sysutils/qjail for my jails (qjail-5.0). My host system is: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE. Normally I would fetch the hosts' ports tree: portsnap fetch update Then I would update the ports tree of the jails: qjail update -p I would normally then be able to list packages which could be...

Just a help for those having same problem with the same problem. This problem occurred after I upgrade my VPS to FreeBSD 11.0, only one machine has this problem. I tried everything I can do to fix it but none works. Today I found the source of the problem and got it fixed. Here is the solution...

I'm trying upgrade pkg-1.9.3 to pkg-1.9.4_1 via portmaster pkg on FreeBSD 8 server with fresh ports. But I got error message. Part of log: pkg_add.c: In function 'pkg_add_fromdir': pkg_add.c:1283: error: 'struct stat' has no member named 'st_atim' pkg_add.c:1284: error: 'struct stat' has no...

I guess I am not the only one to have noticed this message in the daily security mail: p5-Net-SMTP-SSL-1.04: Tag: expiration_date Value: 2017-03-31 p5-Net-SMTP-SSL-1.04: Tag: deprecated Value: Deprecated by upstream, use Net::SMTP instead In Internet I have found that it can be replaced by the...