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The pkgsrc-2008Q1 Branch
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The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q1
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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-2007Q4 branch has been deprecated, and
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continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2008Q1 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-2008Q1 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-2008Q1 branch:
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+ apache-2.2.8
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+ firefox-2.0.0.13
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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-2.3.1nb5
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+ opera-9.26
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+ postgresql-8.3.0
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+ ruby-1.8.6.114
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+ samba-3.0.28a
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+ seamonkey-1.1.9
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+ wireshark-1.0.0
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+ zope-3.3.1
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+ other changes include
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+ we have revamped our mono package, and added a number of
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other useful mono-based packages
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+ the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
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packages such as 3proxy, bash-completion, bsdav, ccid,
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chrpath, clawsker, clive, cmconvert, CoolKey, cut, cvsclone,
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dansguardian, dmsdos, dvtm, dynamips, ejabberd, ewipe,
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gnome-platform, gnome-sharp, gtksourceview2, highlight, im,
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isc-dhcp4, libarena, libdatrie, libdmenu, libfetch, libixp,
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libmp3splt, libotf, libspf2, libssh2, libthai, metauml,
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migemo, mono-addins, monodevelop, monodoc, mopac, msynctool,
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ossp-js, pcc-current, pdcurses, portmap, postgresql-8.3,
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puppet, rtf2latex2e, ruby-activeresource, SDL_Pango,
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sigscheme, slock, smirk, unfs3, wbxml2, xbacklight, xinput,
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xmltoman, and yabause
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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" branches of pkgsrc has been
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revitalised, and we have recruited 3 times the number of engineers to
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work on this than we previously had. Our thanks go to the pkgsrc
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releng team for all the hard work they do in sanity checking pullup
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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 been increased to 7578; 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.
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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-2008Q1/pkgsrc-2008Q1.tar.gz
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or
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ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2008Q1/pkgsrc-2008Q1.tar.bz2
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You can also use the "pkgsrc-2008Q1" 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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