pkgsrc – Page 26 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2009/04/152009/04/14

New pkgsrc tool: pkg_dry

There’s a new tool being put together for pkgsrc installation and management, called pkg_dry. There’s an initial version for download with instructions from its creator, Emile “iMil” Heitor. It looks to duplicate the functionality of apt-get or yum, by handling binary-only remote package management.

Someone please test this on DragonFly, though not on a production machine… If it does end up matching apt-get (the only thing I like in Debian) in terms of functionality, that will be fantastic! I have wanted something like this for a while.

2009/04/08

pkgsrc housekeeping

Two recent pkgsrc changes that won’t directly affect how your packages are installed, but are still worth knowing about:

Thomas Klausner made some adjustments to license handling for pkgsrc. It’s possible to prevent packages with or without certain licenses from installing, even as a dependency. His post contains details of the by-default accepted licenses.
Joerg Sonnenberger has removed most instances of NO_CHECKSUM. This will help people with poor network connections, and (I would imagine) will be better for security, too.

2009/04/062009/04/07

Done Drupal and DragonFly?

Have you installed Drupal on DragonFly? How well did it work for you? Colin Adams would like to know. (I’m 99% sure it will work.)

Update: Yes, it works.

2009/04/05

pkgsrc building plans

My plans for building binary packages for pkgsrc are detailed in this message to the mailing lists. No timeline yet…

2009/03/222009/03/21

Changes and freeze for pkgsrc

Joerg Sonnenberger is making some structural changes to pkgsrc, the result of which is that you should not mix pkgsrc-wip and pkgsrc-2008Q4 packages.

The next branch, pkgsrc-2009Q1, won’t have that issue. In fact, the preparatory two-week freeze for that branch starts today.

2009/03/21

Builds and progress, documented

Not only is Hasso Tepper doing regular bulk builds as he fixes up more pkgsrc packages for DragonFly, he’s also posting diffs that show progress. (Every line prefixed with a – is another working package.)

2009/03/17

growisofs tips

If you’re using growisofs (or K3b) to burn your DVDs and having some trouble, here’s some tips that may get it working.

2009/03/152009/03/15

Place for pkgsrccon in 2009?

Do you have room for more than 25 people? Are you in Europe? If you answered ‘yes’ to both questions, then you could help out with finding a venue for Pkgsrccon 2009.

2009/03/14

Some pkgsrc oddities

If you feel ambitious, Hasso Tepper has a few pkgsrc items that don’t build on DragonFly, and he hasn’t found out why yet. Anyone with experience and/or ideas about these packages is welcome to make suggestions.

2009/03/06

Have you patched Qemu lately?

With the new 0.10.0 release of Qemu, it’s a bit easier to get it running on DragonFly. Hasso Tepper asks that anyone who patched Qemu to run it on a DragonFly system send him the patches. He can get them into pkgsrc, and upstream.

2009/02/242009/02/23

pkgsrc as system performance benchmark

For anyone interested in profiling: I posted details on a bulk build of pkgsrc that seem to imply it’s limited by something other than CPU. The ensuing discussion had some ideas on how to speed up the whole process.

2009/02/12

pkg_raddical

Matthew Dillon has updated pkg_radd to download based on the uname of the system where it’s run. This means binary downloads can be keyed to the appropriate release, instead of just whatever’s most recent on pkgbox or any of the mirrors.

2009/02/112009/02/10

Python goes bump

The default version of Python in pkgsrc is now version 2.5. Be ready for this on your next upgrade.

2009/02/05

Last 2.0 package build

One last build of pkgsrc 2008Q4 is complete on pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org; 2008Q4 packages for 2.2 will be available at time of release.

2009/02/04

Yes, there’s 2.2 packages

Thanks to Matthias Schmidt donating some machine time, I have pkgsrc 2008Q4 packages built for a recent DragonFly 2.1 system but labeled 2.2 already built. They’re uploaded to pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org and should be available on a mirror by the time of the 2.2 release.

2009/01/232009/01/25

Python 2.1 retiring

Python 2.1 is being retired from pkgsrc. In the relatively unlikely chance that this affects you, speak up on one of the pkgsrc mailing lists.

2009/01/22

Wanted: hardware with a connection

As Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert posted, DragonFly needs a system with a good amount of CPU and a good amount of bandwidth to do bulk pkgsrc builds. I’ve been doing it in several places and we don’t have the right combination of bandwidth and speed in any of them.

Donation of hardware that can later be placed somewhere with extra bandwidth would be helpful, too.

2009/01/14

2008Q4 packages, sorta

pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org has a set of packages for pkgsrc 2008Q4 on DragonFly 2.0.1. The bulk build was started after the freeze for 2008Q4 but before the actual branch was released, so it’s not exactly the 2008Q4 release, but it’s pretty close. It’ll be updated as soon as the next build completes. Please, use a mirror as soon as they update.

2009/01/12

pkgsrc-2008Q4 is out

The 2008Q4 release of pkgsrc is out, with a number of improvements: pulseaudio, OpenOffice 3, and perl 5.10, among other things. The announcement mentions using audit-packages and pkgsurvey, too.

There’s a build of pkgsrc from just before the 2008Q4 ‘freeze’ finishing now on pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org; a build will happen soon. Hasso Tepper noted a higher failure rate in package building for that release…

2009/01/05

pkgsrc state as of 2008Q4

Hasso Tepper posted a note detailing some of the troubles with the recently branched 2008Q4 quarterly pkgsrc release. The 2008Q4 release has some issues on DragonFly 2.o, and some recent changes in DragonFly caused issues, though that’s been patched for now. The result of this is that DragonFly has a ‘soft freeze‘ around end- and mid-year release time for the ABI, to keep problems down.