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The pkgsrc-2009Q2 Branch
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The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2009Q2
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branch, which has support for even 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-2009Q1 branch has been deprecated, and
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continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2009Q2 branch.
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Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2009Q2 branch are:
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+ license checking has been extended to open source licensed packages
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+ iMil's pkgin binary package manager has been added
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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
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versions of packages are included in the pkgsrc-2009Q2 branch:
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+ apache-2.2.11nb6
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+ firefox-2.0.0.20 and firefox-3.0.11
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+ gnome-2.26.2
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+ kde-3.5.10nb3
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+ mysql-5.0.67nb3
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+ openoffice-2.4.2nb7 and openoffice-3.1.0
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+ perl-5.10.0nb6
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+ postgresql-8.2.13 and postgresql-8.3.7
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+ python-2.5.4 and python-2.6.2nb1
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+ ruby-1.8.7.174
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+ samba-3.0.34
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+ seamonkey-1.1.17
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+ subversion-1.6.1
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+ wireshark-1.2.1
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+ zope-3.3.1
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+ other notable changes include
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+ we bid a fond thanks, and farewell, to some old favourites,
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such as firefox-gtk1, and sqlitemanager
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+ the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
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packages such as asterisk16, gammu, eina, matio, xsd, a
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whole new TeX distribution, ninvaders, circos, gimmage,
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python26, gtk-vnc, pkgin, netpgp, agedu, libnxml, xml2,
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etm, opengoo, squid31, typolight27, wmd, wordpress, libxcb
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and related packages, and qt4-mysql
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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.
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+ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches of pkgsrc continues
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to work well, and our release engineering team has done a marvellous
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job in pulling up changes to the stable branch. Our thanks go to
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Geert Hendrickx, Matthias Scheler, Tyler Retzlaff, and S.P.Zeidler for
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all the hard work they do in sanity checking pullup requests, and
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managing the stable branches 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 8852; the number of
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supported platforms is currently 14, with another one on the horizon.
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NetBSD, on all its supported architectures, is considered to be one
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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. Audit-packages is now
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part of the new pkg_install tools, and is now much quicker. We have
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removed the old audit-packages package in this pkgsrc release.
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The pkgsrc-security team do a marvellous 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-2009Q2/pkgsrc-2009Q2.tar.gz
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or
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ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2009Q2/pkgsrc-2009Q2.tar.bz2
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You can also use the "pkgsrc-2009Q2" 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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