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The pkgsrc-2006Q2 Branch
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The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2006Q2
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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, and also for enhanced security.
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At the same time, the pkgsrc-2006Q1 branch has been deprecated, and
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continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2006Q2 branch.
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Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2006Q2 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. This includes
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+ gnome-2.14
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+ kde-3.5.3
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+ opera-9.0
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+ perl-5.8.8
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+ postgresql-8.1.4
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+ thunderbird-1.5.0.4
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+ split the openldap package into constituent parts
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+ reorganised the webmin packages and plugins
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+ revamped most of the pkgsrc infrastructure to make it much
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more efficient and maintainable
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+ the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such
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as seamonkey, pgadmin3, ggrab, jack, mpeg4ip, jamvm, uucp,
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cherokee, sgb, javacc, spl, slony1, dtach
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+ a considerable number of fixes for much better DragonFly BSD
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operation, which will also benefit a lot of pkgsrc platforms,
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with thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger
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The full list of platforms supported by pkgsrc is: AIX, BSD/OS,
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Darwin (Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, Interix, Linux,
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NetBSD, OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris). NetBSD-1.6 has been
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declared end-of-life, and pkgsrc will now be de-emphasising support
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for it, too. We would also like to add support for more platforms -
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please get in touch if you, too, are interested.
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+ following DragonFly BSD's adoption of pkgsrc as their packaging
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system, Joerg Sonnenberger has continued to make a lot of changes,
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which include a number of modifications for packages which use POSIX
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threading libraries, and also enhanced support for gcc 3.4 and above
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+ as mentioned before, the infrastructure for pkgsrc has been
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rewritten, to make it much more modular and efficient. In addition, a
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number of new features have been introduced which will benefit pkgsrc
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users on platforms other than NetBSD, and stricter checking of the
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packing list files.
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+ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches of pkgsrc has been
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much improved, and our thanks to the pkgsrc releng team for all the
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hard work they do in sanity checking pullup requests, and managing
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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 6110; the number of
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supported platforms continues to be 12. 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/2006Q2/pkgsrc-2006Q2.tar.gz
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or
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ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/2006Q2/pkgsrc-2006Q2.tar.bz2
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You can also use the "pkgsrc-2006Q2" 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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