All better, mostly

shiningsilence.com moved from ports to pkgsrc, and rebuilding everything took some work – the website was down for a short while while removing/restoring apache, and search/comments have been broken on the site while moving from /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/pkg/bin/perl. Everything seems OK now…

3 little steps

If you, like me, track the RELEASE versions of DragonFly, you’ll be moving from version 1.2 to 1.4 in one jump. There’s a few extra upgrade steps to accomodate the drastic underlying changes between 1.2 and 1.4, and I’ve documented them in the src/UPDATING file.

Buncha 1.4 stuff

I have a lot of little items mostly about the 1.4 transistion, so I’m just going to dump them all out:

* There’s a 1.4 cvsup file that will track the 1.4 release. This will be in the 1.2 release too, as soon as I figure out how, or someone tells me how to commit to a tag.

* the ‘.sh’ suffix requirement for rc scripts is dropped from 1.4 onward; this may happen to 1.4 too. This is needed for some pkgsrc scripts that do not end in .sh.

* cvsup is going to be replaced , one way or another.

* DragonFly will never be binary-compatible with FreeBSD 5+.

* Please, won’t somebody fix rcorder?