There’s been a number of updates to dsynth(1), the DragonFly package-building tool. This won’t matter much unless you like building the entire ports collection at once, but it is interesting to see how resource-intensive chromium building can be.
Synproxy/pf note to save
Linked here cause maybe it’ll help someone else with synproxy and pf in DragonFly: synproxy state doesn’t work in Packet Filter.
CBSD support for qemu/nvmm in DragonFly
ifconfig(8) in DragonFly is gaining a description field, to ease porting of CBSD.
New DragonFly mirror
In Iran, of all places – Google decided this was spam so I am a few days late in posting it to the mirrors page.
amdgpu support in DragonFly
The amdgpu driver, equivalent to Linux 4.19, has been committed along with supporting changes in ttm. Credit goes to Sergey Zigachev, Francois Tigeot, and Matthew Dillon for the work. The module is now built by default in bleeding edge DragonFly. Note the amdgpu commit message lists some options that need to be set.
New OpenSSH version
I saved this but forgot to post it just before the 6.0.1 release: DragonFly now has OpenSSH 8.8p1. The OpenSSH release notes mention that SHA-1 RSA keys signatures (thanks, Ross Richardson for the correction) will no longer work, along with other updates. You are hopefully already using something else.
xdisk and libdmsg setup
xdisk is now being built by default, and libdmsg is able to encrypt/decrypt with a placeholder scheme.
Yes, this means you can mount remote Hammer2 disks as a block device. Read the man pages and remember this is experimental.
FAT on DragonFly
You can now create FAT volumes on DragonFly. Not exactly high-tech, but a filesystem that most anything can read and write.
DragonFly 6.0.1 released!
6.0.1 is tagged and available. The major reason for this update is an expired Let’s Encrypt certificate that would cause problems when downloading dpkg binaries. A list of 6.0.1 commits is available.
I recommend the usual rebuild process mentioned on the 6.0 release notes:
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
make installworld
make upgradeDon’t forget to update your packages with ‘pkg upgrade’.
Let’s Encrypt cert problem fixed
If you have encountered that problem with Let’s Encrypt and dports, the fix is committed and a make world is needed.
libvirt and DragonFly
If libvirt running with nvmm on DragonFly interests you, watch this bug report.
Let’s Encrypt certs and pkg
You may get some errors because of an expiring base Let’s Encrypt certificate when using pkg. It’s being worked on.
mirror-eu-1.dragonflybsd.org removal
The not-official-but-still-used mirror-eu-1.dragonflybsd.org mirror is going away later next month. The main site probably has enough bandwidth to compensate.
mandoc updated in DragonFly
Not huge news about mandoc, but I always like linking to updates with clear changelists.
A note for certbot and Let’s Encrypt
I installed new SSL certificates for this server over the weekend and I have to say, Let’s Encrypt and certbot are the easiest SSL setup process I’ve ever done. It worked exactly as expected on DragonFly.
Keeping a package unchanged
The recent tmux package update reminds me to mention ‘pkg lock’. When you update packages, pkg will update everything. If there’s a package you don’t want changed, the pkg lock(8) command will keep it at the current version. There can be some other packages held back because of dependencies, but that’s OK. Don’t forget to pkg unlock when no longer needed…
tmux post fixed
If you want to update to the now fixed tmux port, you’ll want to add a -f to the pkg command to force it; the version number hasn’t changed.
tmux port redo
If you’re upgrading to the latest dports, and you use tmux – don’t update that particular port yet.
New quarterly packages available
tuxillo has built a new set of packages for dports; upgrade using the instructions in his post. (Though ‘pkg upgrade’ has generally worked for me as the quickest solution.)
hocus pocus in the dmesg
Yep, it’s probably there depending on your chipset.