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February 09, 2010
- Reset maintainer to ports@
PR: ports/143675
Submitted by: "Peter C. Lai" (maintainer)
February 09, 2010 05:10 AM
- Reset maintainer to ports@
PR: ports/143675
Submitted by: "Peter C. Lai" (maintainer)
February 09, 2010 05:10 AM
I can’t keep up with all the things to post. I desperately want to clear my inbox, so here’s a week’s worth of posts all smushed together. Enjoy!
- Naoya Sugioka’s tmpfs work is almost ready to go.
- Francois Tigeot is looking to find supported RAID hardware for DragonFly; the LSI1068e isn’t useable. Freddie Cash listed a number of different and fully supported cards, and Francois listed some other potential choices.
- While talking about hardware, Steve O’Hara-Smith reported excellent results with a particular Atom 330-based board and DragonFly.
- Stathis Kamperis has added to ‘hammer snapls’ output; an example is in his submit@message.
- The 2.6 release of DragonFly, scheduled for March, will have version 4 of HAMMER. 2.4 has version 2. Upgrading from version 2 to 4 can happen in place, live, and only needs to happen once per volume, not per PFS. That’s about as easy as it gets. More details are available.
- The default sshd config has been updated; this shouldn’t affect your normal operations unless you’re using one of the mentioned options.
- Oliver Fromme linked to more discussion of SSD durability.
- Also, Matthew Dillon posted more notes and benchmark numbers for his swapcache work. There’s been some side benefits too. A man page for swapcache is now available.
- Aggelos Economopoulos’s libevtr has been added, for event tracing. He’s posted some additional notes on this work-in-progress.
- We now have /var/log/daemon, too.
- Notes on prepping for Google Summer of Code 2010 from the GSOC Discussion list; I don’t know if that link is readable for nonsubscribers.
- The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD is out at the end of this short month. Dru writes good books.
- Did you know FreeCiv (a Civilization clone, of sorts) is playable in a web browser? Goodbye free time! Details are available at my favoritest game site.
Phew.
by Justin Sherrill at February 09, 2010 02:53 AM
Fix packing list for ia64.
Discussed with: maintainer
February 09, 2010 02:52 AM
- Update to 0.7.12
PR: ports/143635
Submitted by: lwhsu
February 09, 2010 01:29 AM
February 08, 2010
- Welcome emulators/qemu-devel ppc host support! :) [1]
- Attempt to make the pkg-message.s a little more readable. [2]
- Bump PORTREVISIONs.
Submitted by: Andreas Tobler [1]
Submitted by: wkoszek [2] (with modifications)
February 08, 2010 09:19 PM
- Welcome emulators/qemu-devel ppc host support! :) [1]
- Attempt to make the pkg-message.s a little more readable. [2]
- Bump PORTREVISIONs.
Submitted by: Andreas Tobler [1]
Submitted by: wkoszek [2] (with modifications)
February 08, 2010 09:19 PM
This is a separate DBIx::Class model class for HTML::FormHandler
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-FormHandler-Model-DBIC/
PR: ports/143523
Submitted by: Vladimir Timofeev
February 08, 2010 09:07 PM
DataMapper plugin providing extra data types
WWW: http://github.com/datamapper/dm-more/tree/master/dm-types
PR: ports/143520
Submitted by: Jyun-Yan You
February 08, 2010 09:06 PM
DataMapper plugin providing support for aggregates, functions on collections
and datasets
WWW: http://github.com/datamapper/dm-more/tree/master/dm-aggregates
PR: ports/143519
Submitted by: Jyun-Yan You
February 08, 2010 09:05 PM
DataMapper is a Object Relational Mapper written in Ruby. The goal
is to create an ORM which is fast, thread-safe and feature-rich.
WWW: http://datamapper.org
PR: ports/143517
Submitted by: Jyun-Yan You
February 08, 2010 09:05 PM
Ramaze is a simple and modular web framework
WWW: http://ramaze.net
PR: ports/143515
Submitted by: Jyun-Yan You
February 08, 2010 09:05 PM
Simple, straight-forward base for web-frameworks.
WWW: http://github.com/manveru/innate
PR: ports/143514
Submitted by: Jyun-Yan You
February 08, 2010 09:04 PM
- Remove unneeded utmp.h include
PR: 143510
Submitted by: Rob Farmer
February 08, 2010 09:03 PM
- Update to 0.1.9
PR: 143527
Submitted by: Takuya Tsuchida (maintainer)
February 08, 2010 09:03 PM
- Update to 1.6.4
PR: 143605
Submitted by: Cristiano Rolim Pereira
Approved by: maintainer
February 08, 2010 09:03 PM
- Update to 1.4.1
PR: 143516
Submitted by: Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (maintainer)
February 08, 2010 09:03 PM
Update to 1.2.3.
PR: ports/143542
Submitted by: Sofian Brabez
February 08, 2010 08:16 PM
Also, fix the version of the libSDL to check for.
February 08, 2010 07:39 PM
Fix dependency: linux-f10-SDL12
February 08, 2010 07:37 PM
February 07, 2010
Seen via email and Hubert Feyrer’s blog: There’s a NetBSD hackathon planned for February 19th through the 22nd. The meetup is via IRC. Since it’s NetBSD, it’ll include pkgsrc, and if it includes pkgsrc, it affects DragonFly. If you’re interested, show up – even being there to report on packages that compile or don’t (on DragonFly) would help.
by Justin Sherrill at February 07, 2010 03:13 AM
That was fast – there’s another BSDTalk already! BSDTalk 186 has Jeff Roberson, FreeBSD committer. He’s talking about schedulers and softupdates for a good half hour.
by Justin Sherrill at February 07, 2010 03:09 AM
February 06, 2010
February 05, 2010
Jan Lentfer has updated wpa_supplicant and hostapd, and while there’s already some postive reports, he’d like more testing in the wild. Give it a run if you’re already using the prior version.
by Justin Sherrill at February 05, 2010 09:32 PM
The first online-only free version of BSD Magazine is out! It’s good, but there’s no DragonFly, darnit. Anyway, it’s worth reading if for no other reason than it’s in pleasant, colorful PDF format.
by Justin Sherrill at February 05, 2010 09:25 PM
James Nixon, iXsystems employee and PC-BSD developer, is interviewed for 16 minutes on BSDTalk 185.
by Justin Sherrill at February 05, 2010 09:20 PM
I’m really behind on my posting (this is why), so I’m piling a lot of stuff in here:
- Yoinked from #dragonflybsd/EFNet IRC: Hiding sentences in IPv6 addresses.
- Red Hat did it: opensource.com. Good articles, but your eyeballs may get fatigued from reading the word ‘open’ too many times.
- Technically, this should have animated spacewar, not pong.
- Hypergit, a git plugin for vim, with a contextual menu. (via I forget) Also, digerati, a color scheme for both vim and terminal. (via)
- The Winter 2010 edition of the BSDA study DVD is out.
- Hey, this is vaguely like what Matt’s doing with disk cache. Well, not really, but it’s a good idea.
- More Crawlapalooza at @Play.
- The February issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out, with this issue’s theme being “startups”.
by Justin Sherrill at February 05, 2010 09:17 PM
Matthew Dillon is setting up DragonFly to be able to use a fast disk (like a SSD) for disk cache, reducing the effect swap has on speed. This means very large amounts of data could be read into memory – greater than the available RAM in the system – without having the normal paging out problems that happen when memory is exhausted. It’ll work for any filesystem on the machine – HAMMER, UFS, or NFS. His inital notes have more. Other notes include details on the NFS benefits, and possibilities with SSDs. Wear-leveling may make SSDs last much longer.
Work has started, and there’s an update (with examples) that people can try, though it may destroy all your data at this point. Test results in that update show, if I’m reading it right, a better than doubling of speed on a repeated md5 test on a large file when using the new caching system. This should be a huge benefit.
by Justin Sherrill at February 05, 2010 05:22 AM
February 03, 2010
February 02, 2010
The packages from a bulk build of pkgsrc-2009Q4, on DragonFly 2.5.1 for x86_64 have all been uploaded to avalon.dragonflybsd.org. Go ahead and upgrade using pkg_radd if you’ve got the right hardware for it.
by Justin Sherrill at February 02, 2010 04:12 AM
Thanks to some work by Tim Darby, the SiI 3124 SATA controller is now supported. This, like other SiI devices, should be able to handle hotplugging…
by Justin Sherrill at February 02, 2010 04:09 AM
February 01, 2010
Vincent Stemen has a compiled version of the Linux Test Project available to download and run for anyone interested in helping linuxulator progress. Note that this is not a coding exercise, but rather a reporting exercise, so that we can identify what needs work in the linuxulator.
by Justin Sherrill at February 01, 2010 01:40 AM
It’s been available to build for some time, but the official announcement for pkgsrc-2009Q4 is out. It’s worth reading to see what new packages pushed it over the 9,000 mark.
by Justin Sherrill at February 01, 2010 01:36 AM
January 30, 2010
Michael Neumann presented a talk on HAMMER at the Karlsruher Institut
für Technologie on January 27th. His slides (in English) are now available in PDF or ODP formats, and are listed on the dragonflybsd.org Presentations page.
by Justin Sherrill at January 30, 2010 05:34 PM
January 29, 2010
Matthew Dillon’s finished his work on a new API; he’s also posted a short wrapup. This fixes some issues found by fsx for UFS and Hammer, especially in low-memory situations.
by Justin Sherrill at January 29, 2010 03:38 AM
January 28, 2010
Google Summer of Code for 2010 is accepting applications from mentor organizations starting March 8th. Pending acceptance by Google, DragonFly will participate.
If you’ve got ideas, or if you want to mentor (or both!), enter something on the GSOC 2010 page on the DragonFly website.
by Justin Sherrill at January 28, 2010 03:06 AM
January 27, 2010
Bret Lambert (blambert@), your friendly OpenBSD hacker in Norway, writes in about some hardware requests that have been added to want.html recently.
The requests focus on (for now) unsupported or partially supported hardware that is under active development. Machines like the Lemote Yeelong, more SGI hardware and USB infrared dongles are being asked for and Bret asked some of his fellow developers why they requested this gear. Please read on for their replies.
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January 27, 2010 10:16 PM
Jan Lentfer has an update for sendmail, an update for file, and also an update for groff. Apparently he really can whip it out.
(Man, it’s hard to track down the web page for ‘file’ with an Internet search without knowing some author names.)
by Justin Sherrill at January 27, 2010 03:42 AM
January 26, 2010
January 25, 2010
There’s a number of things that all came together in the last 24 hours or so, which means: bullet points!
- Jen Lentfer took my suggestion and ran with it. He’s got an update to Sendmail 8.14.4 on the way too.
- Binary pkgsrc-2009Q4 packages for DragonFly 2.4.x/i386 are all uploaded.
- I finished a build of pkgsrc-2009Q4 for DragonFly 2.5.x/x86_64 – take a look and fix some of the broken items, if that interests you.
- Weekend reading: check out this Trivium post as there’s some interesting historical items. I may try that LackRack idea in a environment that doesn’t fit a normal rack well…
by Justin Sherrill at January 25, 2010 02:54 AM
January 23, 2010
A build of pkgsrc-2009Q4 for DragonFly 2.4/i386 is complete, and uploading now to avalon.dragonflybsd.org. When the upload’s done, I’ll change the symlink so that pkg_radd downloads from the new collection. Builds for x86_64 and 2.5 will be done soon.
There’s a couple packages – lang/mono, devel/boost-libs – that can be fixed with some updates; I’ll do so next chance I get.
by Justin Sherrill at January 23, 2010 08:34 PM
If you’re running DragonFly 2.5 and updated in the past week or so, and have UFS disks, there’s some instability introduced by Matthew Dillon’s recent work. It ought to be better by next week.
Users of Hammer, or of UFS only as /boot, don’t have anything to worry about.
by Justin Sherrill at January 23, 2010 08:01 PM
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December 29, 2009
Michael Dexter from BSD Fund writes in with an update on pcc developments:
Anders Magnusson (ragge@) reports that pcc can now build a bootable OpenBSD -current x86 kernel and that amd64 support is coming soon. Your testing using a fresh snapshot is greatly appreciated.
Please report any bugs in the pcc bug database and be as precise as possible. Code samples are welcome.
We'd like to thank Jonathan Gray (jsg@) for finding many code-generation bugs that were revealed by the kernel and also the dozen donors who contributed a total of over $750 to this effort this month, bringing us less than $3,000 from our goal.
This is great news for software projects in general, as it is another step to try to diminish the GCC monoculture and for OpenBSD specifically as this marks the first architecture kernel that can be compiled with this compiler with hopefully many more to come.
December 29, 2009 06:48 AM
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Claudio Jeker (claudio@), our favourite network hacker from Zürich, Switzerland, writes in with a story about his work on ospf6d:
A few days ago I decided it was time to enable ldpd(8) and ospf6d(8) in the builds
since without additional attention they will never get finished. ldpd still
needs a kernel with option MPLS enabled to be usable but this does not really
matter here. This is about ospf6d and what drives me crazy about IPv6.
Check out the rest of Claudio's adventures in IPv6 land below.
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Tunnelling out of corporate networks - logs, collection and analysis
I haven't heard too many people say good things about log analysis or monitoring but in reality it can be really simple and effective. More importantly, if you take the necessary steps to reduce your network to exposure to malware, log monitoring becomes really easy and fun.
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