From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 17 12:56:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 095DAEF1 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:56:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CBE8FE4 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:56:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp14-2-9-156.lns21.adl2.internode.on.net [14.2.9.156]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r2HCuBkB019573 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:26:17 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Re=3A_What_is_the_Right_Way=28=99=29_to_run_X?= =?windows-1252?Q?=3F?= Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:26:11 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <5DDB125E-A850-431C-B036-69EE9A0AAAED@dons.net.au> References: <82EEB5DC-DD57-4EC3-936A-2F28C4BAF0B4@dons.net.au> To: Andreas Nilsson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org stable" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:56:33 -0000 On 17/03/2013, at 23:00, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Looks promising. Just to make sure, have you verified that hald is = still running? Things can crash...=20 Yep, it's still running. >> > Have you tried to do the build from a clean environment? >=20 >> Not really, I can't just nuke the existing packages and do an install = (I suppose I could do it in a chroot). >=20 > That is a problem yes. Have you considered using poudriere to build = packages? It is rather nice, it can build old-school and new-school = packages, and is very configurable. It does require zfs though ;) I am using ZFS, I'll take a look :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C