Category: pkgsrc

Joerg Sonnenberger has posted the results of his new pbulk system, for bulk builds of pkgsrc, on the tech-pkg@netbsd.org mailing list.   His test bed is building DragonFly, so the results show just how many packages build on DragonFly.  The report comes in text and graphical (warning: big!) versions too.

An interesting corollary to this, from reading the reports, is that out of 7,213 packages in pkgsrc, only 167 actually fail to build on DragonFly – that’s only 2% broken.  There are other packages that fail due to dependencies on those broken packages, but it’s still a remarkably good percentage.

Videos of the talks from the most recent pkgsrcCon are up now.  (Thanks, Hubert Feyrer)

pkgsrc has a temporary freeze coming up, where only fixes will be committed in preparation for the 2007Q2 branch, for release this Saturday, June 16th.  (No link, cause netbsd.org is apparently unreachable for me right now.)

Julio M. Merino Vidal, a pkgsrc developer, has a writeup on his blog about some different ways to upgrade pkgsrc, along with a link to the definitive source.  (seen on NetBSD News Beat)

Hubert Feyrer noticed that slides are up for all the pkgsrcCon 2007 presentations.

Joerg Sonnenberger has posted his initial plans for making bulk build of pkgsrc run in parallel.

The pkgsrc packages for FireFox and Thunderbird are going through a minor shuffle, to make naming consistent with the latest versions of each.  Watch for this on your next upgrade.

Noticed on the FreeTDS mailing list: the Coverity open source scan, like DragonFly, is using pkgsrc to build software.

Update: “”Building Development Code from pkgsrc” was the presentation at the recent pkgsrcCon that described this, though the abstract does not mention it.  Slides may be available soon.  (Thanks, Joerg)

If you wanted to rebuild all your already-installed pkgsrc software, this post on pkgsrc-users@ describes the way to do it using pkg_rolling-replace.  This can be useful if you want to try a new threading library, for instance.

It is possible to use multiple make processes when building from pkgsrc, similar to using -j when performing buildworld to speed things up.  It can be set in mk.conf or as an environment variable, and turned off for specific packages if it causes trouble.

Joerg Sonnenberger has binary packages of the 2007Q1 pkgsrc release now available on his server.

The PHP and PEAR packages in pkgsrc are being decoupled from each other, for ease of maintenance.

I’m a bit slow in mentioning this, but: the most recent quarterly release of pkgsrc, 2007Q1, is officially released.

XFCE 4.4 is available now in pkgsrc; it was in the wip/ branch until recently.  If you want to contribute, you can test and package up the various available plugins for xfce.

Joerg Sonnenberger has created a new source of binary pkgsrc packages for DragonFly.  He has packages up now built with modular xorg, and will have a new batch up soon using the upcoming quarterly release of pkgsrc.

If you’re feeling generous, he could use another 4G of RAM – model number is given in his message.

pkgsrcCon 4 is in Barcelona, Spain from April 27 – 29, 2007. Be warned: there’s only 2 days left to register!

Joerg Sonnenberger has pkgsrc packages built using 1.8 and the new modular xorg packages, available at: ftp://packages.stura.uni-rostock.de/pkgsrc-modular (Thanks, Hasso Tepper)

A few packages are going to be dropped from pkgsrc – mostly older versions of software.  Speak up on the pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org mailing list if you don’t want this to happen.

The next pkgsrc freeze, in preparation for the quarterly release, starts 2007/03/24.

As part of a discussion about issues with the current methods of adding third-party software to base, Matthew Dillon noted that much of it could be replaced safely using pkgsrc packages.