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The pkgsrc-2009Q4 Branch
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The pkgsrc developers are happy to announce the new pkgsrc-2009Q4
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branch, which has support for even more packages than previous
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branches. Some major packages have also been updated in this release.
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At the same time, the pkgsrc-2009Q3 branch has been deprecated, and
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continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2009Q4 branch.
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Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2009Q4 branch are:
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+ a new version of libtool (2.2.6b) is being used
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+ many more packages have been modified to handle DESTDIR installation
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+ gnome has been updated to version 2.28.1, kde to 4.3.4
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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-2009Q4 branch:
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+ apache-2.2.14
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+ bzr-2.0.1
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+ firefox-3.5.6
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+ git-1.6.6 (the package is known as scmgit in pkgsrc)
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+ gnome-2.28.1
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+ kde-3.5.10nb4 and 4.3.4
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+ mercurial-1.4.1
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+ mysql-5.0.88
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+ openoffice-3.1.1
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+ perl-5.10.1
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+ postgresql-8.3.9 and postgresql-8.4.2
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+ python-2.5.4nb5 and python-2.6.4nb4
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+ ruby-1.8.7.174nb2
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+ samba-3.0.37
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+ seamonkey-2.0.1
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+ subversion-1.6.5
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+ wireshark-1.2.6
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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 firefox3-bin, lyx-qt and lyx-xforms (replaced by lyx),
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zip1 (replaced by zip), ghostscript6, xfce3 (replaced by xfce4)
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and dovecot-sieve (replaced by the sieve option to dovecot)
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+ the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
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packages such as fossil, bzr-explorer, openjdk7, echinus,
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pfe, kegs, rcfunge, clang, libmicro, ktorrent3, datadraw,
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topless, typolight28, neb-wipe, openmpi, and tint2
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+ notable updates to packages such as autoconf, boehm-gc,
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boost, bzr, clamav, compiz, curl, ecl, exim, fontforge,
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freeradius2, getmail, glib2, gnuplot, gnutls, gpsd, ikiwiki,
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kde, libtorrent and rtorrent, memtestplus, nagios, netpgp,
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nsd, ntp4, nullmailer, octave, openldap, openresolv,
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openvpn, parrot, pcre, pear, perl5, pngcrush, puppet,
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py-anita, qbzr, qemu, qt4, roundcube, rox, rump, sigil,
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squid, thunderbird, tmux, tor, vte, wget, wireshark,
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xentools33, xlockmore, and xulrunner
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+ the "Package of the Quarter" award is hereby awarded jointly to
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clang, the compiler and lowlevel virtual machine infrastructure
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nominated by Matthias Drochner, and to compiz, the compositing window
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manager, nominated by iMil. An honorable mention, too, to openmpi,
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nominated by Aleksej Saushev, and with thanks to Kevin Buckley for his
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work on it.
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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 marvelous
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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, Lubomir Sedlacik, Tyler Retzlaff,
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and S.P.Zeidler for all the hard work they do in sanity checking
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pullup requests, and 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 grown from 8969 to 9100; 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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+ Julio M. Merino Vidal has added some new auto-update functionality
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for NetBSD-current's periodic checks.
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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 part
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of the pkg_install tools.
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The pkgsrc-security team do a marvelous 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-2009Q4/pkgsrc.tar.gz
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or
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ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2009Q4/pkgsrc.tar.bz2
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You can also use the "pkgsrc-2009Q4" 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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