BSD/Unixpkgsrc 2006Q3 ute nå

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The pkgsrc-2006Q3 Branch

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The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2006Q3

branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches.

As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of

pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler

support, and also for enhanced security.

 

At the same time, the pkgsrc-2006Q2 branch has been deprecated, and

continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2006Q3 branch.

 

Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2006Q3 branch are:

 

+ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take

advantage of fixes and improved functionality.  This includes

 

        + gnome-2.16

        + kde-3.5.4

        + opera-9.02

        + postgresql-8.1.4

        + seamonkey-1.0.5 and firefox-1.5.0.7

        + thunderbird-1.5.0.7

        + zope-3.2.0

        + ruby-1.8.5

        + wireshark-0.99.3

 

+ other changes include

        + we have deprecated mozilla in favour of seamonkey

        + the SuSE 9.x packages for Linux emulation have been

          superceded by SuSE 10 ones

        + we also say goodbye to some other old favourites like

          the separate XFree86 packages, and teTeX 2

        + the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such

          as postgresql81-postgis, mping, libgpod, httping, cogito,

          scmgit, xmms-osx, amaroc, lush, mp3cut, powerdns, zphoto,

          imapsync, kismet and xenkernel30

        + a considerable number of fixes for much better DragonFly BSD

          operation, which will also benefit a lot of pkgsrc platforms,

          with thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger

 

The full list of platforms supported by pkgsrc is:  AIX, BSD/OS,

Darwin (Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, Interix, Linux,

NetBSD, OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris).  We would also like to add

support for more platforms - please get in touch if you, too, are

interested.

 

+ following DragonFly BSD's adoption of pkgsrc as their packaging

system, Joerg Sonnenberger has continued to make a lot of changes,

which include a number of modifications for packages which use POSIX

threading libraries, and also enhanced support for gcc 3.4 and above

 

+ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches of pkgsrc has been

much improved, and our thanks to the pkgsrc releng team for all the

hard work they do in sanity checking pullup requests, and managing

the stable branches in pkgsrc.

 

+ constant bulk building on a number of platforms has improved our

ability to identify potential areas of concern, and to correct them

sooner.  It has also improved our ability to make binary packages

available, and we are working on ways to improve this further.  For

more information, please refer to the pkgsrc-bulk mailing list,

archives available at

 

        http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/

 

+ the number of packages has been increased to 6229; the number of

supported platforms continues to be 12, although we'd like to add

support for HP/UX soon.  NetBSD, on all its supported architectures,

is considered to be one pkgsrc platform.

 

As always, we'd like to encourage users of the packages collection to

install and run pkgsrc/security/audit-packages at least every day -

this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable to

exploit.  The pkgsrc-security team do a marvellous job in tracking

notifications of vulnerabilities in packages, and disseminating this

information, and our sincere thanks go to them for this essential work.

 

We'd also really appreciate it if people would install the

pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgsurvey package, and then run the pkgsurvey script

for us.  This will forward us a list of the packages installed on that

machine, and the operating system and release level of the operating

system.  The results will be kept confidential, but the output will

help us analyse the packages that are most used.

 

The source tar files for the new branch can be found at:

 

        ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/2006Q3/pkgsrc-2006Q3.tar.gz

                or

        ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/2006Q3/pkgsrc-2006Q3.tar.bz2

 

You can also use the "pkgsrc-2006Q3" tag to check it out yourself from

anoncvs.NetBSD.org or any of the mirrors.

 

Alistair Crooks

On behalf of the Packages Team

The NetBSD Foundation

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Ser ganske bra ut det der, ja.

[olear]

pkgsrc er et genialt pakkesystem. En av de store fordelene er at det kan brukes på de fleste OS. Har selv kjørt det på Slackware og IRIX.

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er pkgsrc å anbefale til slackware ? , slackware er jo ikke akkurat full med goe pakkesystem

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pkgsrc fungerer fint med Slackware.

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pkgsrc fungerer fint med Slackware.

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På NetBSD sine sider er det linket til en guide for pkgsrc i Slackware.

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er vel bare kjøre

./bootstrap

for å installere

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Står forklart her: http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/slackware/slackware.html

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litt mer en bare ./bootstrap

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Jepp

 

Er egentlig ikke så mye arbeid, må uansett bare gjøres en gang.