- py-mlt: * fix MAINTAINER; * fix plist generation; * avoid conflicting with mlt's EXAMPLESDIR removal. PR: 175368 Submitted by: Oliver Heesakkers - Update to 0.8.8 bugfix release. - Remove PTHREAD_LIBS.
- py-mlt: * fix MAINTAINER; * fix plist generation; * avoid conflicting with mlt's EXAMPLESDIR removal. PR: 175368 Submitted by: Oliver Heesakkers - Update to 0.8.8 bugfix release. - Remove PTHREAD_LIBS.
- py-mlt: * fix MAINTAINER; * fix plist generation; * avoid conflicting with mlt's EXAMPLESDIR removal. PR: 175368 Submitted by: Oliver Heesakkers - Update to 0.8.8 bugfix release. - Remove PTHREAD_LIBS.
Update to 1.8.1.3. Changes: https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.3.txt
Sepherosa Ziehau has merged the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) for em(4) and igb(4), along with updating em(4)/emx(4) to version 7.3.4 and igb(4) to version 2.3.7.
It was planned some time ago, but versions of Samba older than 3.5 are now out of pkgsrc, and version 3.5 will hopefully be replaced by 4.0 soon. Ruby 3.0 and 3.1 will also be going soon.
- Update to 1.1.44 - Remove indefinite article from COMMENT
- Change the type of PORTREVISION variable assignment, to prevent editors/emacs-nox11 port from being inconsistent. Reported by: Steven Levin
Fix plist. PR: ports/175953
- Add missing dependency. [1] - Strip Makefile header. - Bump PORTREVISION. PR: ports/175969 [1] Submitted by: pawel [1]
- Add shells/bash to build_depends and run_depends. Pointyhat: stephen Submitted by: Beni (private email).
- Add missing deps. - Bump PORTVERSION. PR: ports/175968 Submitted by: pawel
- Port links to graphics/lcms2 if available - Remove leading article from COMMENT - Replace tab with space in WWW: line, remove license info in pkg-descr
Fix build with clang. PR: ports/174434 Submitted by: rm@
Update flash to the latest version PR: ports/175159 Submitted by: Tsurutani Naoki
Update flash to the latest version PR: ports/175159 Submitted by: Tsurutani Naoki
- update to 0.8.5 - add AL2 License, and adjust dependencies - while here trim COMMENT and historical header Reported by: portscout@
Install additional Non Kitten Items by default Add MegaHyperDeath as a compile time option
- Update to 2.0.0 Approved by: crees (mentor)
- Actually update to 0.44-2 PR: ports/175569 Submitted by: KATO Tsuguru
Fix build with clang. PR: ports/174430 Submitted by: rm@
- Fix build and undeprecate [1] (converted to sed expression) While I'm here: - Fix plist with OCI8 option enabled - Fix some portlint warnings - Properly use optionsng - Use EXAMPLES macros for examples in place of DOCS ones. Similar fix as in PR also submitted via email to me independently by Riccardo Torrini PR: ports/175709 Submitted by: Tim Approved by: jadawin (perl@)
- Reset MAINTAINER due to fatal email bounce Reported by: portscout
Bob Beck (beck@) writes in with news of the refreshed dhclient(8):
This is a fan letter for my fellow developer Ken Westerback (krw@). Ken is currently partway through the thankless job of modernizing dhclient - it's already much better, and I think it will be really good for 5.3 an will probably take on new life afterwards with more improvements.
If you're like me, and run around with an OpenBSD laptop, dhclient has been the bane of my existence.
Read more...
- Update to 0.8-5
- Update to 1.4.2 - Remove indefinite article from COMMENT - Trim WWW: line in pkg-descr
DragonFly didn’t participate this year, but it’s worth looking at the winners of the Google Code-In work for 2012 – there’s two people that were working on NetBSD in there.
John Marino has set gcc 4.7 as the default compiler in DragonFly. This replaces the previous default of gcc 4.4. The 4.4 version is still available, and while you can set NO_GCC44 to keep it from being built, John’s commit message notes that it’s still useful especially for some ports that don’t work with gcc 4.7.
Remember I mentioned FOSDEM a few days ago? The X.Org presentation slides are up, and the mostly-about-BSD “The future of X.org on non-Linux systems“ presentation slides are included.
The AsiaBSDCon 2013 timetable has been released. The program shows a fairly strong OpenBSD component.
The conference takes place in Tokyo, Japan on 14-17 March, 2013. Read on for details, registration will be opening soon. Read more...
If you have git installed, and you are trying to upgrade it, you may have problems. The scmgit-docs package dependency requires some DocBook files that aren’t always accessible. If you do run into this problem, there’s 3 separate options:
Hubert Feyrer wrote a review of Ansible 0.9, a management tool for multiple systems, similar to Puppet or maybe Chef. Just after doing that, Ansible 1.0 came out, with support for pkgsrc via pkgin-installed packages. This is the first solution (that I know of) that supports pkgsrc package management for multiple systems.
Paul Irofti(pirofti@) tells us about the work he did at n2k13:
The n2k13 hackathon was mainly a Loongson hackathon for me. My main goal was to add CPU throttling support. A few things related to clocks needed to be implemented before being able to deal with the actual CPU scaling bits.Read more...
For once, I got to read the commit logs for other BSDs…
The OpenBSD ‘Papers’ page has some videos listed to match the OpenBSD-related presentations from EuroBSDCon 2012.
Not only does NetBSD support the BeagleBoard, but Michael Lorenz is committing from it.
FreeBSD has brought in a new version of bmake and jemalloc. I’ve seen a number of other commits recently attributed to ‘NetApp’, which is good to see. Also, preliminary USB support for boot loaders.
PC-BSD is looking to use pkgng, the same binary package manager used in John Marino’s DPorts. It’s proving quite popular.
Sepherosa Ziehau has posted a detailed message showing the speeds he gets with multiple transmission queues, using igb(4). The short version:
Quick summary, the multiple TX queue support gives me: +200Kpps for 2 bidirectional normal IP forwarding (now 4.40Mpps) +160Kpps for 2 bidirectional fast IP forwarding (now 5.23Mpps)
Several correspondents wrote in to alert us to the fact that a new, improved OpenBSD book is soon to be released:
No Starch Press is now accepting pre-orders for Absolute OpenBSD 2nd edition by Michael W. Lucas. A discount is available if you use the promo code from Michael's Blog.
The book is listed with an April 2013 release date, and it will be up to date with the upcoming OpenBSD 5.3 release.
No theme evolved this week, but that’s OK.
Your unrelated link of the week: MeTube: August sings Carmen ‘Habanera’. Might be NSFW, probably will make you mildly confused or uncomfortable. Here’s the ‘making of’ video which is all in German, I think. If that’s too much, try a recent Cyriak-animated video. I never thought I’d recommend a Cyriak video as the less disturbing thing to watch.
GCC version 4.7 is already available now in DragonFly 3.2, but it’s not the default compiler. John Marino intends to make it default for the next release. What’s that mean for us? Nothing other than a new compiler, since he’s already fixing related issues.
The Phoronix benchmark has been pretty Linux-specific over recent history. However, whatever your feelings about benchmarks in general, it looks like there’s a distinct effort to improve BSD support.
FOSDEM is happening this weekend in Brussels, Belgium. Among the other talks there, OpenBSD developer Matthieu Herrb will be talking about X.org on non-Linux systems. That’s I think meaning “BSD”. (via)
Michael W. Lucas is working on a DNSSEC book that he’s self-publishing, similar to SSH Mastery. He’s making an early draft available for purchase, at a discount. You get access to the updates, so you effectively get the book for less, plus you can offer feedback before the publishing date.
This is a familiar concept for software, where early purchasers get access to a ‘beta’ version of software for testing… It’ll be interesting to see how it works for a book.
Will Backman has a new BSDTalk episode up, with a bit of Peter Salus from BSDCan 2011 and a bit of Raspberry Pi on FreeBSD.
We need more fiddling-with-BSD-on-hardware stuff out there. That would be a good thing for Youtube – hint, hint.
Markus Pfeiffer reports success using Xen HVM to run DragonFly, which may be useful for any of you Xen users. He reports not being able to use more than 2 virtual CPUs, though Scott Tincman reports successfully using 4 (with qemu), so your mileage may vary.
Updated: noting qemu usage as Markus pointed out in comments.
Here’s an unsolicited testimonial for a BSD-based company. My employer recently bought some of the assets of another company, in another state. I showed up not sure exactly what I’d encounter, since the facility had never had anything better than out-of-state IT support via phone, and there had been very little time to plan.
The facility had 3 different network gateway devices from varying manufacturers, all old, and mostly dead. The one working ancient Linksys small business gateway wasn’t physically able to work the way I wanted for extending our corporate network. So, in a mild panic, I grabbed one of the defunct machines there and installed pfSense - a FreeBSD-based firewall/gateway solution, for those who aren’t familiar with it. This is not unlike Michael W. Lucas’s BSD Origin Story.
It worked wonderfully. It was very easy to configure. I had exactly one problem: certain protocols like RDP would drop every few minutes. I bought the basic support tier for pfSense – and had a working answer immediately. Even with the support purchase, this has been cheaper and less work than purchasing the Cisco equipment my workplace normally uses.
Whee!
Your unrelated comics link of the week: Kyle Baker comics, available as PDFs for free. Go, read.
If you’ve been feeling the need for reading about filesystems, Daniel Phillips has posted more notes about his Tux3 filesystem design, which can be contrasted with HAMMER. (thanks, Venkatesh Srinivas)
This has nothing directly to do with DragonFly, other than this is a result from my trip to NYCBSDCon last year… I know I have a few New York City readers. I’m possibly making a short trip to NYC soon; any advice on where to stay/visit?