There’s a whole lot of changes in the development branch (HEAD) of DragonFly. These are good changes, especially if you are a multiprocessor user, but HEAD users will shortly need to recompile everything – kernel, world, and ports/pkgsrc! Matthew Dillon lays it out in a recent post.
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Stupid question… is this why there have been absolutely no packages on GoBSD.com for the last few days?
DragonFly is great stuff, but this one one of the reasons I dislike not having at least a small collection of useful packages on the install CD (X, Blackbox, Firefox perhaps?).
There are times when one does a fresh install, and D’oh! No packages available for download.
I suppose that I could always build them myself, but man, that’s the kind of fun I’d prefer to leave with the Gentoo crowd ;^)
I think that’s a separate issue; gobsd.com lost its main page temporarily (fireflybsd.com showed up instead; I assume a virtual domain problem) and the packages directory has been gone since.
I haven’t heard what’s happening…
Thanks for the update :-)