Articles about freebsd

1. Formatting a USB stick on FreeBSD

   This documents how to format a USB-stick on a recent FreeBSD system

2. Automating package updates on FreeBSD

   When updating my ports, I prefer to use packages when I have not changed the options of a port. This describes how I do that.

3. Building ports with local modifications

   Sometimes I have to build ports with local modifications. This can be for testing purposes, before submitting a PR or for improvements that only I consider important.

4. Install ntpsec on FreeBSD

   A short article on how to install ntpsec on FreeBSD. Tested with 0.9.7 and 1.0.0.

   Note

   There is/was a bug in the ntpdate implementation that set the clock to a completely bogus value. So I’ve since written a simple script that runs from cron to fetch the time from a near NTP server.

5. Fixing dependencies after mesa ports consolidation

   After the 2017-05-12 mesa port consolidation, there were packages left with missing dependencies. This is how to fix them

6. Building gphoto2-ffi on FreeBSD

   Download

   Clone the repository from https://github.com/jbaiter/gphoto2-cffi.

   > cd ~/github
   > git clone https://github.com/jbaiter/gphoto2-cffi
   

   Build …

7. Updating python3 to 3.6

   This article document how I updated python3 from version 3.5 to 3.6 on FreeBSD.

8. Replacing openssl with libressl for ports

   Since its inception in 2014, I’ve been following the LibreSSL project.

   The OpenSSL codebase turns out to have severe problems. See the presentation, and especially sheet 7.

   The version in the FreeBSD base system is old, but the version used by the ports I can control. It took a while, but now was the time for me to switch.

9. Updating Python to 3.5

   This article documents the process I followed to update Python 3.4 to 3.5 on my FreeBSD machines.

10. Python bindings for libmagic

    This documents how I installed Python bindings for libmagic.

    There are actually different bindings for libmagic. One set is part of the original distribution. It can be found in /usr/src/contrib/file/python/. But in my opinion it is somewhat cumbersome to use and not very Pythonic.

    The implementation from ahupp/python-magic in Github feels more natural.