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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?

Recently I have been having issues with updating ports tree with portsnap on FreeBSD 10.3. The common issue I run into is when executing#portsnap fetch update we receive a metadata is corruptSimply running #portsnap fetch update again seems to resolve this issue. Today, however, I ran into the...

With TrueOS Desktop tracking FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT, in August I installed the OS and (below) on 1st September I installed kde4. From ports, I guess. The most recent updates to TrueOS Desktop involved loss of KDE. I made a handful of brief unsuccessful attempts to re-install from ports, then...

Hello, according to https://nicolas.vion.science/systems-unix-freebsd-letsencrypt-ssl-ca-nginx/installation-of-letsencrypt-with-nginx-on-freebsd.html there is a port /usr/ports/security/py-letsencrypt. After executing portsnap fetch extract I see several ports with the mask py-*...

Hello, All! Usually, I try to use google. But this time google didn't help me. About year ago i upgrade system (10.1) x86->amd64. While rebuilding all ports I found out that some ports didn't compile. Due lack of time I used pkg upgrade problem_port. It was not a good idea (I never set X11...

In the process of updating MySQL last week, I did a pkg upgrade and after my server rebooted, sendmail won't start: /etc/mail # make start Starting: sendmailShared object "libdb-6.1.so" not found, required by "sendmail" sendmail-clientmqueueShared object "libdb-6.1.so" not found, required by...