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January 28, 2012
Add dependency on x11-themes/gnome-icons-faenza
PR: ports/164572
Submitted by: myself
Approved by: maintainer via private mail
January 28, 2012 08:41 PM
- Update to 0.9.13
PR: 164297
Submitted by: Armin Pirkovitsch (maintainer)
January 28, 2012 07:30 PM
- Update to 0.9.13
PR: 164297
Submitted by: Armin Pirkovitsch
January 28, 2012 07:29 PM
- Mark BROKEN: does not install properly after X11BASE removal
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 /usr/ports/audio/timidity++-xaw/work/TiMidity++-2.13.2/TiMidity.ad /lib/X11/app-defaults/TiMidity
install: /lib/X11/app-defaults/TiMidity: No such file or directory
Reported by: pointyhat
January 28, 2012 07:28 PM
- Update to 1.5
- Pet Portlint
PR: 164360
Submitted by: Sterling Camden (maintainer)
January 28, 2012 07:27 PM
- Update to 0.4
PR: 162791
Submitted by: Maintainer
January 28, 2012 07:26 PM
- Update to 0.3.17
PR: 164171
Submitted by: Ports Fury
January 28, 2012 07:25 PM
- Mark BROKEN on amd64/9:
/usr/bin/ld: [..]/work/llvm-2.6.r71086/Release/lib/LLVMX86CodeGen.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `X86CompilationCallback2' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
Reported by: pointyhat
January 28, 2012 07:25 PM
- Update to 2.5
PR: 164158
Submitted by: Ports Fury
January 28, 2012 07:24 PM
- Update to version 8.2.3
PR: 164154
Submitted by: Ports Fury
January 28, 2012 07:24 PM
- Mark BROKEN on 9.X:
gcc46: error: unrecognized option '-no-integrated-as'
Reported by: pointyhat
January 28, 2012 07:22 PM
- update makefile, install cgiprograms with INSTALL_PROGRAM (was INSTALL_DATA) [1]
PR: ports/159619 [2]
Submitted by: Olexandr [2]
Reviewed by: scheidell [1]
Approved by: maintainer (timeout, 5 months), gabor (mentor, implicit)
January 28, 2012 07:20 PM
- Fix build with clang
PR: 164381
Submitted by: Andrew Clarke
January 28, 2012 06:29 PM
- Update to version 20120105
PR: 164149
Submitted by: Ports Fury
January 28, 2012 06:10 PM
- Update to 1.1.1
PR: 164148
Submitted by: Ports Fury
January 28, 2012 06:10 PM
- Update to 0.02002
- Add TEST_DEPENDS
PR: 164289
Submitted by: swills
January 28, 2012 06:09 PM
- Respect STRIP
PR: 163060
Submitted by: Jan Beich
January 28, 2012 06:02 PM
- update to 1.5.2 [1]
- add LICENSE [1]
- remove redundant PYDISTUTILS_PKGVERSION
- strict python version to -2.7 (python3 isn't supported)
PR: 164511
Submitted by: "Junji NAKANISHI" (maintainer)
January 28, 2012 05:44 PM
- Update to 0.3.4
PR: 164579
Submitted by: Olivier Duchateau
January 28, 2012 05:14 PM
- Fix Dependens & Cleanup
- Add License
PR: 164155
Submitted by: Ports Fury
January 28, 2012 04:57 PM
Ulrich Habel wants to update some of the Perl 5 modules in pkgsrc. He published a request for comments, describing what he plans to do for changing some dependencies. He does note that Perl 5 in pkgsrc is at 5.14.2, which is very recent.
I was talking to a relative today who works at a large financial company, which is standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise. I find it strange that Red Hat, which has a lot of money behind it, still ships a years-old and arguably broken version of perl. By using pkgsrc, you’re getting more up-to-date software than people that actually shell out money for the privilege of compiling software.
by Justin Sherrill at January 28, 2012 12:08 AM
January 27, 2012
They are located in the normal place, in .img (USB) and .iso (CD/DVD) formats. I haven’t made the desktop DVD yet; let’s see how these untested versions do…
http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/
by Justin Sherrill at January 27, 2012 08:22 PM
Peter Avalos updated libpcap and tcpdump. This is on master, not the 3.0 branch.
by Justin Sherrill at January 27, 2012 02:47 AM
January 26, 2012
A bit of symmetry in that title, there. Old ATA, which was replaced years ago, is finally gone. This should affect nobody…
by Justin Sherrill at January 26, 2012 01:02 AM
January 24, 2012
I received an em
ail from No Starch Press about reviewing this book, and my first reaction was to say no. I assumed this was essentially a book about using Bash, and therefore probably not useful to people reading the Digest.
I read it despite my knee-jerk reaction, and I didn’t need to reject it so suddenly. Almost all of the book will apply to any Unix-like system.
My first real experience with something that wasn’t Windows or a Mac was at a summer job during college, sitting in front of a SparcStation 5 editing files and processing data for real estate. Much of my muscle memory about vi and file manipulation dates from then. This book, even though it’s technically for a different operating system, would have been just what I needed. There’s no system administration in the book, just making your way around a filesystem and the tools you need to get results. It’s the kind of skills I think people lose out on when they boot to a graphical interface in Ubuntu, for example, and then never experience these tools.
Negatives: a few areas won’t be of use to most BSD users, like the section on packaging, or the bash-centric instructions in the shell programming area. There’s the occasional off comment, like that OpenSSH originates from “the BSD project”. There’s surprisingly little of this however, and I had to think a bit to write this negative paragraph.
Positives: The book puts the proper focus on some complex but rewarding aspects of command line use, like using vi (alright, vim) and understanding regular expressions. Much of what it covers is the same material I’ve learned to use over time, and explained to others.
There’s clearly two areas to the book; the first half is about using the command line to accomplish work, and the second is about shell programming. Making it at least through the first half will result in being able to work at a prompt with little issue, with the shell programming a nice bonus. It’s not the normal mix of admin tasks and introductory text; it’s about working at the command line. I imagine giving it to new software testers in a lab, or to a Windows user that has to deal with the occasional unfamiliar environment. There isn’t an equivalent BSD-centric book like this, so it wouldn’t hurt a BSD user, either.
It’s available now at the No Starch website.
by Justin Sherrill at January 24, 2012 10:46 PM
January 23, 2012
Note that it’s branched, not released. I’m building and uploading binary pkgsrc packages for it now, and hope to have a ‘release candidate’ very soon. This is the prep work before the release, really. There’s a catchall ticket for tracking remaining work.
by Justin Sherrill at January 23, 2012 11:22 PM
There’s a whopping 250 euro bounty up now on the DragonFly Code Bounties page. It’s for supporting the newer Intel video chipsets, and there’s already examples in FreeBSD to start with.
(David Shao, where are you? If you’re reading this, hop into #dragonflybsd and tell us how things are going with your GEM/KMS work)
by Justin Sherrill at January 23, 2012 09:56 PM
January 22, 2012
I even have some comedy in here this week.
Your unrelated comics link for the week: Tom Neely‘s Doppelganger. Page 11 is my favoritest.
Another unrelated thing: David Shao, are you out there? Can you get on IRC (EFNet #dragonflybsd) and help some people out with GEM/KMS questions? Nobody’s been able to find you.
by Justin Sherrill at January 22, 2012 06:49 PM
The first paragraph of this book's afterword reads:
“
"You now know more about SSH, OpenSSH and Putty than the vast majority
of IT professionals! Congratulations".
”
That claim will be true for any reader of SSH Mastery who has read the
book up to that point and has incorporated at least some of the
elements of the configurations it describes into their own
environments.
Read more...
January 22, 2012 06:18 PM
I’m going to have at least 1 book review up next week, 2 if I can make it. I’ve done this several times now, so I’ve added a ‘Book review’ category so that they all can be found together.
by Justin Sherrill at January 22, 2012 02:05 AM
January 21, 2012
‘Live dedup’, where a DragonFly system makes a deduplicative reference to copied data instead of actually copying the data, is now off by default. There’s no definite issue linked to it yet that I know of, but it never hurts to be careful just before a release.
by Justin Sherrill at January 21, 2012 09:11 PM
Peter Avalos has updated OpenSSL to version 1.0.0g. It’s so new I can’t find anything in the OpenSSL changelog to describe why there was an update, but I suspect it was this.
by Justin Sherrill at January 21, 2012 08:07 PM
January 20, 2012
John Marino has added support for RELRO in DragonFly, which makes it the first BSD to have it. That’s great news! What is it? Apparently a guard against memory corruption or overflow in the linker. His commit message gives better details.
by Justin Sherrill at January 20, 2012 11:44 PM
Matthias Schmidt found a discussion about DragonFly’s password encryption. The result, if I am reading it correctly, is that brute-forcing the password from available hashes is quicker than it should be. Matthias also found a contributed fix. Samuel Greear updated to match the reference SHA implementation also in Linux, with this very pertinent warning.
by Justin Sherrill at January 20, 2012 09:38 PM
January 19, 2012
Matthew Dillon has a very detailed commit message with changes to make sure Hammer will run overnight cleanups in situations as low as 256M of RAM. I think you can find that much RAM in breakfast cereal boxes these days.
by Justin Sherrill at January 19, 2012 09:41 PM
January 18, 2012
The answer is “not very”. As I wrote in a post to kernel@, DragonFly 3.0 will be tagged soon, and released when there’s pkgsrc-2011Q4 packages to go with it. Probably a week if everything goes to plan.
by Justin Sherrill at January 18, 2012 10:56 PM
Chris Turner reports success building JDK 1.6 on DragonFly x86_64, though it requires a bit of fiddling. Building 1.7 on x86_64 is getting closer but not yet, as far as I can tell.
by Justin Sherrill at January 18, 2012 08:38 PM
January 17, 2012
If you install CUPS, or know that you will never print using lpr(1), you can make sure thatyour DragonFly system never builds lpr again by putting NO_LPR=true in /etc/make.conf.
by Justin Sherrill at January 17, 2012 09:37 PM
What if you have a DragonFly system that you want to use for an wireless access point? Andrey N. Oktyabrski did, and he helpfully listed his solution.
by Justin Sherrill at January 17, 2012 09:33 PM
January 13, 2012
In episode 208 of his bsdtalk podcast, Will Backman talks about how he uses OpenBSD virtual machines to aid in his teaching of a Unix course at the University of Maine, along with details of why he chose it and how it helps round-out his pupils' understanding of different Unixes.
The podcast files (15min, 7MB) are available here:
Ogg: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk208.ogg ,
MP3: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk208.mp3
January 13, 2012 05:33 PM
Daniel M wrote in about the wiconfig script that he wrote to handle moving a laptop between networks:
So, I got tired of doing my little time saving workarounds every time I connected to a wireless network and decided to look for a solution. Several people have posted little wireless scripts here, to misc@ and minor modifications to help simplify and automate the configuration of wireless, but the scripts never seemed to go far enough.
Read more...
January 13, 2012 05:09 PM
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As several submitters wrote in to remind us, Following the regular 6-monthly schedule, OpenBSD 5.0 was released on 1 November and is available on CDs and online.
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