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The pkgsrc-2007Q2 Branch
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The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q2
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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-2007Q1 branch has been deprecated, and
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continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2007Q2 branch.
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Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2007Q2 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-2007Q2 branch:
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+ apache-2.2.4
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+ firefox-2.0.0.4
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+ gnome-2.18.1
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+ kde-3.5.7
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+ mysql-5.0.41
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+ openoffice-2.2.1
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+ opera-9.21
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+ postgresql-8.2.4
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+ ruby-1.8.6
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+ samba-3.0.24
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+ seamonkey-1.1.2
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+ thunderbird-2.0.0.4
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+ wireshark-0.99.5
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+ zope-3.3.1
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In addition, the default versions of firefox and thunderbird have been
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set to the 2.0.0.x versions, replacing the previous 1.5.0.x versions
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(which have been kept in www/firefox15, mail/thunderbird15, but are no
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longer the default).
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+ other changes include
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+ more modular X11 packages have been added, including the modular
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X server modules, and many X clients. With the pkgsrc-2007Q2
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branch, the "xorg" X11_TYPE will become obsolete.
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+ we have continued to develop our "filesystems" category
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+ the adoption of a new bulk building system, pbulk, by Joerg
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Sonnenberger
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+ the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such
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as opengrok, roundcube, more modular x11 clients, coda, tea,
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t-prot, u9fs, teamspeak-server, fuse-gphotofs, alpine, goffice,
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mecab, qtplay, fuse-obexfs, fuse-wdfs, tesseract, sparse, htop,
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ragel, xhtmldiff, mimetex, antiright, psvn, planner, ipbt,
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dvdisaster, deskmenu and freepops
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To the list of platforms supported by pkgsrc - AIX, BSD/OS, Darwin
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(Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, Interix, Linux, NetBSD,
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OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris) - we are proud to welcome HP/UX,
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thanks to Tobias Nygren, and we will extend the list of supported
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platforms still further in the next few months.
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+ the pkgsrc-2007Q2 branch introduces support for case-insensitive
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filesystems, which makes bootstrapping pkgsrc much simpler on the
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average Mac. We encourage our Darwin and OS X users to try it out and
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report any problems.
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Our plans are for this to become the recommended Darwin configuration
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for the pkgsrc-2007Q3 branch, and to get rid of darwindiskimage and
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the related information in the documents.
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+ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches 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 branches
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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 7181; the number of
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supported platforms has risen to 13. 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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install and run pkgsrc/security/audit-packages at least every day -
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this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable to
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exploit. The pkgsrc-security team do a marvellous job in tracking
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notifications of vulnerabilities in packages, and disseminating this
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information, 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-2007Q2/pkgsrc-2007Q2.tar.gz
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or
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ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2007Q2/pkgsrc-2007Q2.tar.bz2
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You can also use the "pkgsrc-2007Q2" 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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