Matthew Dillon found a problem in DragonFly with msdosfs mounts. He’s fixing it momentarily.
This is only a problem if you are running the very latest version of 1.11.
Matthew Dillon pointed out that an update of our dump system, as used by dumpsys() (sorry, no man page), would be useful – perhaps taking from recent FreeBSD changes.
YONETANI Tomokazu mentioned the minor steps needed to have a program other than sendmail handling local mail delivery.
Matthew Dillon has changed the way the installer CDs are built, and mentioned an idea I support wholeheartedly: creating DragonFly CDs/DVDs that come with common software already installed. His changes don’t make that happen, but they do make the possibility easier.
Peter Avalos has updated libarchive to 2.2.6, though it doesn’t look like it changes much for us.
CARP has been added to DragonFly. For those unfamiliar with it, it’s a protocol for having an IP address fail over to a new system without (significant) interruption, similar to IETF/Cisco’s VRRP.
BSDTalk has a new interview up of Matthew Dillon, where he talks about the 1.10 release.
In addition, Will Backman, the person who conducts BSDTalk, is himself interviewed on episode 74 of “Linux Reality” (Via BSDNews)
Sepherosa Ziehau is switching DragonFly from IPFW1 to IPFW2, which has the same rule syntax. Gergo Szakal helpfully pointed out that the differences between the two versions are listed in the IPFW man page under “IPFW2 ENHANCEMENTS”.
A bug in SMP virtual kernels has been fixed; the side effect is that if you are running bleeding edge code, you will need to recompile any SMP vkernels you are using.
Matthew Dillon’s added ‘part 1/many‘ of the work needed for supporting file systems in userland.
In a recent post on users@, Michael Neumann wondered if it was possible to have the pkgsrc tools install binary packages whenever available, building from source only when needed. Going by Joerg Sonnenberger’s reply, yes it is:
DEPENDS_TARGET=bin-install
Set BINPKG_SITES similiar to PKG_PATH first.
BINPKG_SITES should be set to a list of binary package locations, separated by semicolons, as I recall – see the download page on the DragonFly website for a list.
The latest version of BSDTalk has an interview with Chris Moore, the founder of the PC-BSD project.
A question of what exactly is a domain, in relation to a host, led to several explanations of the concept. Even if this is already clear to you, it’s interesting to see the different ways it was explained.
Michael Neumann did some playing with jscan; he detailed the steps he went through, which may serve as a handy usage example.
GCC 4.1 is now the default compiler for DragonFly versions > 1.10. GCC 3 is staying around for a while in case it’s needed, though.
‘elekktretterr’ posted his extra steps needed to get spamd running, from pkgsrc.
Matthew Dillon has updated leaf.dragonflybsd.org (where developer accounts are located) to 1.10.
xorg 6.9 is going to be removed from pkgsrc soon; upgrade to the modular version when the chance presents itself. As the linked post says, you need these packages:
- meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-apps
- meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-fonts
- meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-drivers
- x11/modular-xorg-server
- x11/xterm
(Though xterm can be replaced with other terminal programs) All these are available as packages from your local mirror, though programs dependent on X will need to be recompiled or reinstalled from binary packages.
Matthew Dillon found a mbuf problem, and fixed it. It’s severe enough that it will cause 1.10.1 to be brought out very soon; it’s led to some other changes.