Banshee port updated to 1.4.1
Banshee 1.4.1 was released a few days ago and if you haven’t tried it yet, have a look at it!
Especially if you happen to be the proud owner of an Android G1, I’d like to hear about it working on FreeBSD.
Banshee hits FreeBSD Ports
I’ve had a local half-baked port of banshee for quite a while now. I’ve finally made the extra effort to make it a bit cleaner. This is basically the minimal set of features you can get, there’s no iPod support, no MTP support either. There are probably some rough edges, but now it’s there and people can test it.
Have fun!
Bla bla bla, *plaign*, bla bla bla…
It’s been a while since Mr Beranger didn’t mention what he could call the FreeBSD/X.org incident. Well, we can reset the counter [link].
The poor thing mentioned (again) being driven away from the FreeBSD Project because of two developers who shall remain nameless (one of them being myself), who dared calling him an idiot. Well, I will repeat myself: clueless and whining person == idiot.
Should you not have been an idiot, you would have admitted that your understanding of how ports and packages work was wrong and you would have just said that it was simply not a good match for your needs. There’s plenty of choice, shop around, as you’re already doing.
Apart from that, there are loads of people using patched releases (via freebsd-update(1), which you also criticized, for various utterly wrong reasons, as pointed out by Colin Percival, the maintainer of the tool) with what I’ll call stable packages (which is actually latest packages built on FreeBSD-STABLE, as opposed to current packages which are built against FreeBSD-CURRENT).
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 FreeBSD 5.x support, fixing pkg_info ftp://...). I’ll have a look at PRs later.
Code is living at http://git.xbsd.org/projects/pkg-install/. To check it out:
$ git clone git://git.xbsd.org/projects/pkg-install.git
$ cd pkg-install
$ git fetch origin cleanup:cleanup (if you want the cleanup branch)
$ git fetch origin config:config (if you want the config branch)
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 pkg_install port, added a distfile target to pkg_install in src/ to generate a new distfile for use with ports/, ...).
I was also browsing pkg_install code to look for ancient/unsupported/broken code. I’ve found that “@option extract-in-place” wasn’t used anywhere under ports/. If you’re too lazy to read pkg_create(1), basically it extracts the contents of a package straight into $PREFIX rather than to a staging area first. Pav ran an exp-build to see if defaulting to in-place extraction breaks anything and, obviously, it did. Thankfully I could reproduce quickly and I’ll investigate in the next few hours. I expect to find loads of gems like this one.
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
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 like Xorg crashing at startup, I recommend reading the x11@ archives and if you still don’t find any solution, then contact the Xorg developers and/or open a bug report at bugs.freedesktop.org.
I have the biggest
... commit in FreeBSD history. Thanks to Martin for pointing it out 
Source: FreshPorts
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/
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 now (ports/106114).
Following Kris Moore (the guy behind PC-BSD, but I’m sure you knew that already) request, I’ve also updated the X.org nv driver to 2.1.2 cause they’ve added a bunch of ids for latest NVidia GPUs.