Advogato blog for krylan

27 Jul 2000

Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:45:13 GMT

Oh my gosh! I'm finally back, and am ready to start actually making usefull stuff. I recently got a new job, and my time was being occupied a lot. As for projects, the newest thing I wish to tackle is to create a console image viewer, which will probably be based off of picobsd's "view", and might just be added to that instead of making a different package. "View" currently allows you to view png's, I plan to add support for jpeg and gif.

21 Apr 2000

Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:55:07 GMT

After about 2 hours and some laughs from some committers, I found that bsd.port.mk already has a line that tests for root UID with:

@if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then (blah)

Thanks for the help xanne, CyNick and Green :)

Now I'm *VERY* close to actually putting all this stuff in bsd.port.mk...which means only the testing and bug ridding proccess remain (which is one of the crappiest).

22 Apr 2000

Sat, 22 Apr 2000 06:11:33 GMT

I spent about 4 or 5 hours looking over /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk as well as bothering some developers on efnet. Fortunately I have made some progress as to the infrastructure of the ports system. Heres what I found I need to do to bsd.port.mk:

Add test if uid is 0 then all paths change to those supplied:

PREFIX=${HOME}

MANPREFIX=${PREFIX}

WRKDIRPREFIX=${HOME}/ports

WRKDIR=${WRKDIRPREFIX}/${PORTNAME}/work

PKG_DBDIR=${HOME}/var/db/pkg/${PORTNAME}

I also plan to maybe completely use environment variables to make things well, not so static..but the above will remain as default (unless someone else things otherwise)

17 Apr 2000

Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:56:20 GMT

Some news on user-based ports. I now found out that I have quite a bit of work for this one. But i've managed to lay out basically what needs to happen.

- Change install path from /usr/local (or otherwise chosen) to ~/

- Change man install path to ~/

- Figure out how the hell to get ports to register and acknowledge registrations in ~/

- Change building directory (/usr/ports/[cat]/[port]/work to something else. Possibly ~/somewhere or in /tmp

- Do all this without breaking anything

Theoraretically my sketch is a little backwards, but it still works for me

16 Apr 2000

Sun, 16 Apr 2000 04:18:12 GMT

Good news (finally). After some help from BigKnife (thanks) I'm starting to patch bsd.port.mk. Wish me luck!

16 Apr 2000

Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:17:19 GMT

Found some 'trouble' with user-based ports system. I have to find a way to overide the path included within packages. Hopefully there may be an environment variable or else I can create one. I'll have to check later when I'm on my workstation and hopefully I can get some help from the FreeBSD developers.

16 Apr 2000

Sun, 16 Apr 2000 04:03:38 GMT

Good news, I thought of an idea of a user based ports system addition eg. 'normal' users can register and install ports in their own home directories. I'll be working on it, trying to implement it on my home machine, then will later submit it, hopefully I can get some help :)

15 Apr 2000

Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:10:01 GMT

Did a lot of reading on SCSI programming. My experiance with it is still somewhat limited, but I'm learning. Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll have some beginner's skill in device driver writing

15 Apr 2000

Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:07:27 GMT

Was going to submit updated cvsupit package, but relized someone beat me to it (darn) Hopefully I can find something else to contribute which is in my limitations.