Why not portage? ‘ejc’ says why.
Probably because of my subscription to SysAdmin Magazine, I got an email from CMP Media for the net event “Why Did My Build Break? Learn Effective Techniques to Debug Troublesome Makefiles, which is a 1-hour talk on August 24th with Usman Muzaffar and John Osterhout (the person who created Tcl). I have no idea how interesting this is, as it’s the first I’ve heard of it.
It appears to be linked into Software Development Magazine, another CMP product. Looking at that page, it appears that this magazine absorbed New Architect, which I really enjoyed years ago when it was “Web Techniques”. What does that mean now? Nothing!
UnixReview.com has several new articles up: a farewell to Dept. 1127, where AT&T Unix was born, and reviews of the books “Eclipse 3.0 Kick Start” and “Information Security Policies Made Easy, Version 10“. That security book had better make things easy – it’s nearly $800!
As part of the continuing package manager discussion (i.e. ports and what to replace it with), Chris Pressey pointed out that DragonFly does not have a publically defined set of nontechnical goals, and linked to a few others for contrast.
In addition, Hiten Pandya described the “Smart Package Manager” as a potential solution to many (if not all) the issues people have with package management systems.
‘walt’ reports some luck running the Java JDK from pkgsrc; the absolute latest patchset from eyesbeyond.com supports DragonFly and makes it work.
I’ve cleaned up the page; I’ve reduced the redundant references to archives in the page navigation, and added a book section that points at books on Amazon.com. This new book section has some permanent links (including my favorite programming book ever), and also links to whatever books have been mentioned here lately.
A question about FreeBSD port compatibility has turned into a long ports vs. pkgsrc discussion. (read through the follow-ups, or visit the monthly archive and read “Compatibility with FreeBSD Ports”) It’s one of those problems that gets answered by what people work on the most.
Someone posted a link to another dragonfly image; it’s, well… not about the bug, really.
Joerg Sonnenberger’s got a number of diff files for use with pkgsrc, to make it a bit more compatible with DragonFly. These will (well, ought to) be incorporated into pkgsrc at some point, but until then…
ONLamp/BSD has a new article up in FreeBSD Basics, outlining how to access a Subversion server. I recall someone was experimenting with a Subversion server for DragonFly code, though it’s going to remain in CVS (man, nongnu.org pages are ugly!) in the main repositiory.
David Rhodus has updated the pkg_add command to point to http://www.fireflybsd.com/packages, where the binary builds live. This works if you’re running the latest code; however, you will need to use the full URL for a given package if you’re using 1.2.x Release, as it still looks to the old location.
Anyone know a good place (other than EBay) to find cheap used laptops? I want to find something small, light, and able to run DragonFly, natch.
UnixReview.com this week covers an interesting Python script called “DenyHosts“, which locks out hosts that fail login too much. There’s another game review, this time of the racing game TORCS, which may or may not work on DragonFly. (It’s currently broken on FreeBSD-4, so we may be out of luck, temporarily…)
The default location for DragonFly to use when retrieving binary ports is http://www.gobsd.com/packages. However, gobsd.com (the physical machine) is undergoing a data center move, and it’s not all back together yet. Until then, build ports from source, or use pkgsrc.
Joerg Sonnenberger has updated gcc to version 3.4.5.
Welcome Noritoshi Demizu, the newest developer for DragonFly.
Here’s some links nabbed from the IRC channel #dragonflybsd on EFNet: a tutorial on Project Evil (using MS Windows wireless card drivers on a different operating system), several tutorials on various types of shell scripting, and possibly the biggest list of programming documents ever I seen. Warning – it’s pretty Linux-centric.
Leaf.dragonflybsd.org now has additional disk space for twe (3ware controller) testing, and has had an operating system upgrade to 1.3.4-DEVELOPMENT. Matthew Dillon has the details.
As David Rhodus found, beeping from your PC speaker works in recent code. It can be turned off with `kbdcontrol -b quiet.visual`, but reports conflict on if that works.