Bad: having the system used for mirroring DragonFly crash a lot.
Sascha Wildner’s added the cxm(4) driver, which supports Hauppauge PVR-250/350 video capture cards. Hasso Tepper kindly donated the hardware for testing.
I’ll note here that I have a Hauppauge TV card (848 chipset, I think) that’s possibly the oldest continuously functioning computer equipment I own; I’ve been using it for close to a decade without a single problem. I have nothing else that has reached the benchmark.
Student projects for Google Summer of Code will be announced this Monday, for DragonFly, and for all other participating organizations. DragonFly has 5 slots, and more than 5 excellent proposals, which is a good kind of problem to have. We’ll see what we can fit.
Sdävtaker came up with a potential idea for encrypting backup files, and Matthew Dillon followed up with another way that uses Hammer.
Daniel Lorch is working on a port of Hammer to Linux’s VFS, though since he’s using FUSE, it will be able to reach other systems, like NetBSD. The code is accessible.
Peter Avalos imported OpenSSL-0.9.8k. I think. I saw him make room, but the actual commit didn’t come through on the mailing list, so I’m not sure.
In related news, the 1.0 version of OpenSSL appears to be coming up.
Is DragonFly vulnerable to a recently found pf issue? Nope, thank goodness.
There’s a new tool being put together for pkgsrc installation and management, called pkg_dry. There’s an initial version for download with instructions from its creator, Emile “iMil” Heitor. It looks to duplicate the functionality of apt-get or yum, by handling binary-only remote package management.
Someone please test this on DragonFly, though not on a production machine… If it does end up matching apt-get (the only thing I like in Debian) in terms of functionality, that will be fantastic! I have wanted something like this for a while.
Antonio Huete Jimenez reports that DragonFly now can install and run without issue on VirtualBox 2.2.0; it had been unable to work in previous releases.
Matthew Dillon is trying to track down a Hammer bug where directory entries (files, usually) are missed, whether it’s with ls or find or similar. Has this happened to you? It’s apparently very hard to duplicate, so please speak up if it has.
Hasso Tepper reported on the results of Peter Avalos’s major libc changes; someone retiring libc_r would help, as would someone figuring out why unistd.h isn’t found on DragonFly.
Naoya Sugioka has some preliminary patches for kqemu on DragonFly. In testing, he found it made qemu run slower, which is the opposite of its purpose, so he’d appreciate suggestions.
Can someone who uses git more heavily than I do look at Tig, a git viewer, and mention if it is useful? It looks interesting, as one of the features that git ‘lacks’ is a visual client other than at the command line.
BSDTalk has interviewed Dan Langille, a driving force behind the yearly BSDCan event. The convention is coming up on the 8th and 9th of May. (13 minutes)
Two recent pkgsrc changes that won’t directly affect how your packages are installed, but are still worth knowing about:
- Thomas Klausner made some adjustments to license handling for pkgsrc. It’s possible to prevent packages with or without certain licenses from installing, even as a dependency. His post contains details of the by-default accepted licenses.
- Joerg Sonnenberger has removed most instances of NO_CHECKSUM. This will help people with poor network connections, and (I would imagine) will be better for security, too.
My apologies, folks – the site is going up and down, along with my network connection. It’s probably because of Time Warner (my network provider) trying and failing to correctly implement bandwidth measuring tools for their upcoming volume cap. (I keep getting passed a private IP.)
Peter Avalos has made major changes to DragonFly’s libc; you can look at the commits page or check out his git repo for details. If you are running 2.3, you will need to do a full buildworld on your next update.
You may also need to rebuild pkgsrc packages; I’m build a new binary set for 2.3 now.
Have you installed Drupal on DragonFly? How well did it work for you? Colin Adams would like to know. (I’m 99% sure it will work.)
Update: Yes, it works.
If you’re a student with a Summer of Code application, make sure to subscribe to it. Doing this will ensure you are automatically notified of any mentor requests for more information.
There’s also some recent stats published by Google on the applications so far; DragonFly is one of the surveyed orgs it mentions, and the results are the same – less applications, better quality.
My plans for building binary packages for pkgsrc are detailed in this message to the mailing lists. No timeline yet…