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The pkgsrc-2009Q3 Branch
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The pkgsrc developers are happy to announce the new pkgsrc-2009Q3
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branch, which has support for even more packages than previous
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branches. As well as updated versions of many packages, the
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infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform
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and compiler support.
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At the same time, the pkgsrc-2009Q2 branch has been deprecated, and
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continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2009Q3 branch.
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Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2009Q3 branch are:
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+ the pkg_install infrastructure has been updated again
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+ kde4 is available in pkgsrc for the very first time
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+ Matthias Scheler has provided initial support for Mac OS X Snow Leopard
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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-2009Q3 branch:
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+ apache-2.2.13nb3
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+ firefox-3.5.3
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+ git-1.6.4
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+ gnome-2.26.2nb1
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+ kde-3.5.10nb4 and 4.3.1
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+ mercurial-1.3.1
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+ mysql-5.0.67nb3
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+ openoffice-3.1.1
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+ perl-5.10.0nb6
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+ postgresql-8.3.8 and postgresql-8.4.1
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+ python-2.5.4nb3 and python-2.6.2nb1
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+ ruby-1.8.7.174nb2
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+ samba-3.0.37
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+ seamonkey-1.1.18
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+ subversion-1.6.5
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+ wireshark-1.2.2
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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 postgresql-8.1, sendmail-8.1.3, python-2.3, and openpbs
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+ the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
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packages such as wbd, libmtag, picard, pigz, lzip, mono-nat,
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fuse-mp3fs, bubblemon, py-openid, luajit, dash, ario, mkcue,
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flactag, unac, postgres-8.4, filezilla, udns, xulrunner, sigil,
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libev, ssss, ical2rem, ocp, gupnp-igd, farsight2, hugin,
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asymptote, libasyncns, milkytracker, pkgsrc-todo, gbemol,
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re-alpine, devkitd, gcc44, and kde4
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+ the "Package of the Month" award has been resurrected, thanks to
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Antti Kantee, and is awarded to pkgsrc/misc/py-anita - anita uses
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qemu to download a NetBSD/i386 distribution and install it, and
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boots the installed system to a "login:" prompt.
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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 marvellous
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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 been increased to 8969 from 8852; the
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number of supported platforms is currently 14, with another one on the
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horizon. NetBSD, on all its supported architectures, is considered to
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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 part
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of the pkg_install tools.
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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-2009Q3/pkgsrc-2009Q3.tar.gz
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or
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ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2009Q3/pkgsrc-2009Q3.tar.bz2
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You can also use the "pkgsrc-2009Q3" 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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