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The pkgsrc-2009Q1 Branch
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The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2009Q1
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branch, which has support for even 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-2008Q4 branch has been deprecated, and
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continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2009Q1 branch.
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The pkgsrc-2009Q1 branch celebrates 5 years of quarterly branching
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within pkgsrc, and we would like to thank all of our users and
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developers for using the world's most portable packaging system - to
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all of the users, developers and supporters a very large "Thank you"
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from all of us.
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Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2009Q1 branch are:
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+ Jared McNeill has updated the gnome packages to be 2.26
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+ Joerg Sonnenberger's pkg_install-renovation branch has been merged
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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-2009Q1 branch:
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+ apache-2.2.11nb3
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+ firefox-2.0.0.19 and firefox-3.0.10
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+ gnome-2.26.0
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+ kde-3.5.10nb2
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+ mysql-5.0.67nb1
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+ openoffice-2.4.2nb7 and openoffice-3.0.1nb2
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+ perl-5.10.0
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+ postgresql-8.2.13 and postgresql-8.3.7
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+ python-2.5.2nb4
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+ ruby-1.8.7.72nb3
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+ samba-3.0.34
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+ seamonkey-1.1.16
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+ wireshark-1.0.8
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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 the 0.8 gst-plugins, python 2.1, bind8, xenconsole,
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squid26, gpgme03, aap, libopendaap, buildtool, nsca and
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netsaint, amongst others
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+ the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
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packages such as ap2-auth-mellon, ap22-vhost-ldap, some
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akode plugins, apache-roller, apache-tomcat6, bash3, bind96,
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brasero, calibre, coccinelle, daemond, desktop-gnome, dhcpcd
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and dbus and gtk variants, evas, some gnome packages,
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fuppes, help2man, ioquake3, jdbc-mysql31, jdbc-mysql5,
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mdoclint, mdocml, mediainfo, miniupnpd, nestopia, openct,
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openjdk7-bin, openldap-cloak, openldap-nops,
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openldap-smbk5pwd, openoffice3-bin, lots of perl5 packages,
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packagekit, some python packages, a TeX distribution, tmux,
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and unworkable.
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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, Tyler Retzlaff, and S.P.Zeidler for
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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 8430; 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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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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OBATA Akio has been a member of the pkgsrc-security team for some time
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now, adding to Adrian Portelli and Tonnerre Lombard, and has made a
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lot of additions to the list of vulnerable packages - a very useful
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and thorough job - we are grateful to them all. The pkgsrc-security team
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do a marvellous job in tracking notifications of vulnerabilities in
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packages, and disseminating this information, and our sincere thanks
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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-2009Q1/pkgsrc-2009Q1.tar.gz
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or
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ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2009Q1/pkgsrc-2009Q1.tar.bz2
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You can also use the "pkgsrc-2009Q1" 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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