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The pkgsrc-2008Q2 Branch
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The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q2
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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-2008Q1 branch has been deprecated, and
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continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2008Q2 branch.
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With more than ten years of pkgsrc development behind us, 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-2008Q2 branch are:
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+ a new ruby gems framework, from Stoned Elipot and Johnny Lam
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+ many more packages have been moved to install into a staging directory -
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the DESTDIR work that Joerg Sonnenberger has done almost singlehandedly
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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-2008Q2 branch:
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+ apache-2.2.9
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+ firefox-2.0.0.16 and firefox-3.0.1
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+ gnome-2.20.2
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+ kde-3.5.9
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+ mysql-5.0.51
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+ openoffice-2.4.1
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+ opera-9.27
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+ postgresql-8.3.3
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+ python-2.5.2
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+ ruby-1.8.7.22
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+ samba-3.0.30
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+ seamonkey-1.1.11
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+ wireshark-1.0.2
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+ zope-3.3.1
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+ other changes include
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+ Jared Mcneill has re-worked the compiz window manager
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packages
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+ the new ruby gems framework is easy to use, scalable, and
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very effective
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+ Eric Gillespie has updated the subversion package to 1.5.0,
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and reworked part of the additional language support
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+ thanks to Jared Mcneill, David Holland and Reinoud Zandijk,
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wine-1.0 works well on NetBSD
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+ the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
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packages such as acroread8, bind95, blame, boxbackup (client
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and server), compiz-fusion, drupal6, firefox3, fltk2,
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freeradius2, ftmenu, gambc, gvfs, java-subversion,
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mediatomb, mono-tools, mowgli, msel, mtftpd, odt2text,
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pkg_leaves, qrencode, ruby-snmp, smbldap-tools, stegtunnel,
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torrentzip, unbound, and xsel.
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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 has been
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revitalised, 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 them
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for 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 7721; 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. 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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Recently Tonnerre Lombard has joined the pkgsrc-security team, and has
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made a lot of additions to the list of vulnerable packages - a very
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useful and thorough job - we are grateful to him. The pkgsrc-security
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team do a marvellous job in tracking notifications of vulnerabilities
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in packages, and disseminating this information, and our sincere
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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-2008Q2/pkgsrc-2008Q2.tar.gz
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or
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ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2008Q2/pkgsrc-2008Q2.tar.bz2
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You can also use the "pkgsrc-2008Q2" 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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