Archive for the 'Ports' Category



Package tools WIP

Looks like I got myself into trouble again.

After I accepted a hat from portmgr, I started looking at pkg_install again. I’ve already done some cleaning which I mentioned previously but it now seems like i have a new part-time job.

I’m working on a config file support right now. I’ve done some more cleaning up (removing [...]

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Long time no blog

I figured I could give a small update on what I’m doing these days.

If you’re reading Planet FreeBSD, you already know that I’ve been offered to join portmgr@ a few days ago. Since then I’ve done some cleanup in pkg_install related stuff: removed pkg_sign, sync’ed RELENG_7 and RELENG_6 with HEAD, removed old pkg_install-devel port, updated [...]

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Goodbye XFree86-4

I removed xfree86-4 ports yesterday. Hear hear people, if you’re still using USE_X_PREFIX or USE_XLIB, switch to USE_XORG, now.

Go there for more info: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/X11/Todo

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Catching up with FreeBSD ports

Holiday season is over so I’m trying to fix as many ports as I can before portmgr cuts the final set of packages for the upcoming 7.0 and 6.3 FreeBSD releases.

I think I’ve fixed most outstanding issues with x11 ports (mga driver, xdm, ...) in the past few days. If you have a major issue [...]

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I have the biggest

... commit in FreeBSD history. Thanks to Martin for pointing it out

Source: FreshPorts

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X.org ports updated to 7.3

There you go, fresh X.org ports in your favorite ports tree, a week after it’s been released. Announce is here

At the same time, I’ve marked XFree86-4 as DEPRECATED and should be gone before 2008. Hurray o/

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Latest ports updates

Ok, I’ve finally committed the update to openbgpd, so it’s now at 4.0. I’ll probably pass the maintainership to farrokhi@ because I’m quite busy these days and I’ve been poorly maintaining it anyway. So you can start bothering him now :-). There’s still the openospf update pending, if you haven’t tried it, please do it [...]

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Here is an updated port for net/openbgpd. I’d like to get at least one or two successful reports before it goes in CVS.

Thanks to Thomas Vogt for relaying claudio@ patches.

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