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The pkgsrc-2007Q4 Branch
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The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q4
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branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches.
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As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of
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pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler
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support.
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At the same time, the pkgsrc-2007Q3 branch has been deprecated, and
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continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2007Q4 branch.
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This branch celebrates the tenth anniversary of pkgsrc, and we would
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like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people who have made
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pkgsrc the most portable packaging system in the world - to all of the
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users, developers and supporters a very large "Thank you" from all of
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us.
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Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2007Q4 branch are:
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+ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take
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advantage of fixes and improved functionality. The following versions
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of packages are included in the pkgsrc-2007Q4 branch:
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+ apache-2.2.6
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+ firefox-2.0.0.11
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+ gnome-2.20.2
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+ kde-3.5.8
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+ mysql-5.0.51
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+ openoffice-2.3.1
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+ opera-9.25
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+ postgresql-8.2.5
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+ ruby-1.8.6.111
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+ samba-3.0.26a
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+ seamonkey-1.1.7
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+ thunderbird-2.0.0.9
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+ wireshark-0.99.7
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+ zope 2.9.8, 2.10.5 and 3.3.1
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+ other changes include
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+ a number of packages have been updated to include "DESTDIR"
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installation, whereby staging areas are used to install the
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package, and a binary package suitable for onward installation
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can be made. The DESTDIR installation method is completely
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optional. Standard installation is still fully supported,
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and is still the default. Work continues in this area.
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For more information on DESTDIR installation, please refer
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to the pkgsrc guide
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+ the addition of a framework for managing binary-only
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packages that require and support binary emulation, by
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Johnny Lam
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+ we have continued to develop our "filesystems" category
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+ the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such
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as ldapvi, mcast-tools, ssmping, aria2, open-vm-tools,
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jdom, xf86-video-radeonhd, ap2-wsgi, gsnmp, snow, openwbem,
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alephone, oak, thaixfonts, netbiff, awesome, herrie, pixman,
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cstore, sqlgrey, cone, netbsd-iscsi-initiator, whois3,
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psftools, qt4-tiff, rtunes, djview4, fuse-chironfs, climm,
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ilmbase, camlp5, qt4-qdbus, nginx, isc-dhcp, fuse-svnfs,
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and plone3.
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The list of platforms supported by pkgsrc is AIX, BSD/OS, Darwin (Mac
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OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, HP/UX, IRIX, Interix, Linux, NetBSD,
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OSF1, OpenBSD, QNX and SunOS (Solaris). We are aware that support for
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some platforms is at a more mature stage than others, and would like
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to encourage feedback from users and developers on our more esoteric
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platforms. To illustrate this point, a number of developers have
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worked hard to improve support for Mac OS X Leopard - Matthias Scheler
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and a number of others have improved support to the point where a
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number of key packages like perl and apache are now supported.
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+ continuing engineering on the "stable" branch of pkgsrc continues,
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and our thanks to the pkgsrc releng team for all the hard work they do
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in sanity checking pullup requests, and managing the stable branch
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in pkgsrc.
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+ constant bulk building on a number of platforms has improved our
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ability to identify potential areas of concern, and to correct them
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sooner. It has also improved our ability to make binary packages
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available, and we are working on ways to improve this further. For
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more information, please refer to the pkgsrc-bulk mailing list,
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archives available at
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http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/
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+ the number of packages has been increased to 7472; the number of
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supported platforms is currently 14. NetBSD, on all its supported
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architectures, is considered to be one pkgsrc platform.
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As always, we'd like to encourage users of the packages collection to
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audit-packages at least every day - this will provide notification of
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any packages which are vulnerable to exploit. As mentioned earlier,
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this is part of the new pkg_install tools, and is now much quicker.
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We shall be removing the old package in the next pkgsrc release. The
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pkgsrc-security team do an outstanding job in tracking notifications
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of vulnerabilities in packages, and disseminating this information,
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and our sincere thanks go to them for this essential work.
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We'd also really appreciate it if people would install the
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pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgsurvey package, and then run the pkgsurvey script
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for us. This will forward us a list of the packages installed on that
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machine, and the operating system and release level of the operating
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system. The results will be kept confidential, but the output will
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help us analyse the packages that are most used.
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The source tar files for the new branch can be found at:
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ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2007Q4/pkgsrc-2007Q4.tar.gz
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or
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ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2007Q4/pkgsrc-2007Q4.tar.bz2
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You can also use the "pkgsrc-2007Q4" tag to check it out yourself from
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anoncvs.NetBSD.org or any of the mirrors.
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Alistair Crooks
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On behalf of the Packages Team
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The NetBSD Foundation
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