pkgsrc – Page 21 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2010/04/25

What does DESTDIR mean?

I’ve made reference to DESTDIR for pkgsrc several times, with only an informal understanding of what it means. From what I’ve learned, and what Joerg Sonnenberger’s told me, DESTDIR support means that packages can be built from pkgsrc without needing to be root. This means local packages can be built on an ordinary user account using pkgsrc.

This also means that pkgsrc can build packages before each upgrade, and only upgrade if a binary package can be built for each item involved. This means minimal downtime and no failures during upgrades, the biggest bugaboo for using pkgsrc that I’ve encountered.

2010/04/22

Binary pkgsrc build status

I posted a note about where the 2010Q1 builds are for pkgsrc; if you’re on i386/2.6 right now, you can try it out.

2010/04/212010/04/21

pkgsrc-2010Q1 is out

The newest branch of pkgsrc for 2010 is officially out – read the release announcement for details on what’s updated. Among other things, DESTDIR support is almost complete, and a shift to default KDE4 is underway.

I’m working on bulk builds already, so hopefully soon you’ll be able to pkg_radd 2010Q1 packages…

2010/04/10

Talks at pkgsrcCon 2010 – submit now

Do you want to give a talk at pkgsrcCon 2010 in Basel, Switzerland, May 28-30? Make sure to mail in the details.

2010/04/05

pkgsrcCon 2010 coming up

pkgsrcCon is happening May 28th-30th in Basel, Switzerland. The event web page has note on location and hotel information. (thanks, S.P.Zeidler)

2010/03/27

cvsup gone, finally

YONETANI Tomokazu has eliminated cvsup, replacing it with net/csup from pkgsrc. The README notes that the pkgsrc package devel/cvsync is another alternative if you need to retrieve the repository and not just the checked out files..

2010/03/25

Statistics on binary pkgsrc use

Based on a comment from John Merino on this very Digest, I managed to assemble some statistics on binary pkgsrc package use. See my full post for the details, including some analysis.

2010/03/242010/03/24

Messylaneous for 03/24/2010

In an effort to catch up…

Matthew Dillon made a change to how material in memory is paged out; it may improve things depending on how much paging your system already does.
The AsiaBSDCon OpenBSD papers are online, with mention of video of the presentations.
Use keys for your SSH login, cause this will only get worse.
Ten Shell One-liners. The first one, using your favorite editor on the command line, is one of those things I knew about, but didn’t know to do. (caveat: some Linuxisms)
Want to test a big xorg update for pkgsrc? Of course you do.

2010/03/22

Easy reading for what’s broke

Every time a bulk build of pkgsrc packages is completed, a report is uploaded listing what built and what didn’t. Since there’s so many reports from the now-automated build, I’ve sorted it by architecture and release, to make lookups faster.

This is handy if you’re looking to fix pkgsrc apps on DragonFly, and you need a target. It’s also a good way to see if a desired module exists as a binary.

2010/03/19

Interested in pkgsrc? DragonFly?

We actively need more people to do the small but plentiful fixes to make sure as many pkgsrc packages work as possible. Are you interested? Speak up.

2010/03/17

PHP change in pkgsrc

PHP version 5.3 has some differences from previous versions, so there’s now a lang/php53 port. Use this if you want to upgrade right away, or stick with lang/php if you want to play it safe.

2010/03/10

BIND goes byebye?

Jan Lentfer has accomplished something rather dramatic: the removal of BIND from the base system. It’s not actually out yet, but I daresay it will be after the 2.6 release, freeing people up to install any DNS server from pkgsrc – including BIND.

2010/03/04

pkgsrc-2010Q1 freeze soon

The ‘freeze’ for pkgsrc-2010Q1 is scheduled to start March 16th, which will be right around the same time of the DragonFly 2.6 release. The freeze lasts 2 weeks, usually, so new packages for 2.6 will be built probably about mid-April, based on this info…

2010/02/26

(b)make install change in pkgsrc

Joerg Sonnenberger announced new behavior in pkgsrc: Performing “bmake install” in pkgsrc with a package that supports DESTDIR will build a binary package and then install from that package. This means a package will be successfully build before the installation process is started, and I assume is to assist further work down the road.

Details: The old behavior was to build and install directly, which “bmake stage-install” can reproduce. DESTDIR support means that the software can be installed as non-root.

2010/02/19

Binary package updates

I’ve been working toward continuous builds of pkgsrc, so that there’s always up-to-date pkgsrc binaries available. I’ve been posting notes about it too, which I will hopefully be able to automate soon. For example, Firefox 3.5.8, the most recent version, is already available.

2010/02/162010/02/18

Messylaneous for 2010/02/16

It’s like someone turned on the activity faucet; there’s so much to post about lately!

PkgsrcCon 2010 is May 28th to 30th, in Basel. The date’s been declared, but not much else – yet.
Chunks of KDE in pkgsrc are now updating to the KDE4 versions by default. This only affects pkgsrc-current users, not pkgsrc-2009Q4.
An interesting story about computer manufactuing and MicroSD problems.
In Praise of Online Obscurity – this article makes me think of communities like DragonFly and the other BSDs. In essence, growth causes smaller independent groups to form out of a larger membership, because a social group can only be maintained to a certain size. Perhaps this is why FreeBSD’s evolved a core group, or other groups form, like Wikipedia ‘editors’. (via) I’m catering to my own interests in group dynamics here.
Jan Lentfer’s brought in his hostapd and wpa_supplicant work, mentioned previously.

2010/02/12

Default PostgreSQL and Python changes

Postgres will be 8.4, and Python 2.6, as default installs from pkgsrc. This affects anyone following pkgsrc-current, but if you are using pkgsrc-2009Q4, it won’t matter for a few months yet.

2010/02/06

Hackathon also for pkgsrc, Feb 19-22

Seen via email and Hubert Feyrer’s blog: There’s a NetBSD hackathon planned for February 19th through the 22nd. The meetup is via IRC. Since it’s NetBSD, it’ll include pkgsrc, and if it includes pkgsrc, it affects DragonFly. If you’re interested, show up – even being there to report on packages that compile or don’t (on DragonFly) would help.

2010/02/01

x86_64/DragonFly 2.5.1/pkgsrc-2009Q4 ready too

The packages from a bulk build of pkgsrc-2009Q4, on DragonFly 2.5.1 for x86_64 have all been uploaded to avalon.dragonflybsd.org. Go ahead and upgrade using pkg_radd if you’ve got the right hardware for it.

2010/01/312010/01/31

pkgsrc-2009Q4 release announcement

It’s been available to build for some time, but the official announcement for pkgsrc-2009Q4 is out. It’s worth reading to see what new packages pushed it over the 9,000 mark.