Peter Avalos updated OpenSSL to 1.0.0d, due to a recently discovered bug. He’s also brought the fix back to DragonFly 2.6 and 2.8, so it’s available for most anyone.
BIND version 9.5 has reached End of Life status. In fact, it did it some time ago. However, net/bind95 in pkgsrc has just been deleted. Update to 9.6/9.7, if you still had9.5 in place.
This is one of those scenarios that I’m noting because it might bite someone, some day: if your root partition is encrypted, you can’t fit in a different keymap. However, kernel options to build in a different keymap will fix this issue.
If you’ve ever installed pkgsrc packages from source, you probably typed ‘bmake install’. There’s a ‘bin-install’ target that will use binary packages if they are available, but you have to set the appropriate environment variables to do so.
It’s now much easier, on DragonFly. If you have pkgsrc-current as of yesterday or later, or pkgsrc-2011Q1 when it arrives, you can type ‘bmake bin-install’ for a pkgsrc application and it will download the binary package automatically, if it’s available, and build from source if it’s not.
This is a setup I’ve wanted for a while – the speed of a binary install, plus a fallback if the binary isn’t available.
If you’re using the binary pkgsrc package installer pkgin, version 0.4 is available for testing.
They’re finally uploaded! See my rather lengthy post about it on users@ for all the details.
Chris Turner went off into some extra detail on how the rc system works, with extra links for anyone interested in some history.
Matthew Dillon’s made some changes that will speed up the booting process for people with a ridiculous amount of memory, like 64G. This is x86_64 only, but that should not be a surprise if you think about it.
Due to a crash yesterday on git.dragonflybsd.org, the Git repo was not up to date, briefly. It’s been fixed. This will only really matter if you’re running bleeding-edge DragonFly and rebuilt your system in the last 24 hours or so.
The theme for this month’s Open Source Business Resource is “Recent Research“. The topic’s broad, so there’s something for everyone. The article on licensing (BSD and otherwise) is of interest.
Entertainment, this week. There’s several items here that will be more entertaining if you’re over 25. Or maybe 35. Get clicking!
- If O’Reilly was to publish any of the various parody books out there, it should be this one.
- Also, looking for those image links led me to this programming language suggestion. Oh! And that led me to this treat for people who remember Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.
- A good game critic talking unabashedly about his love of roguelikes? I am so linking it!
- An update on the OpenBSD IPSec backdoor kerfuffle thing.
- OK, back to entertainment. A magic number!
- Wierd: new NetBSD platform support… from Microsoft.
- Huh. Apparently there’s some other meanings for BSD.
- Among other things, this article describes some Ruby tests that work so vigorously to make the tests like natural language that they become harder to write. No big story there; I’m sharing my sense of surprise.
- BSD: it’s tough. (link fixed) The complaints these people make are valid, though.
I’ve had the bulk builds of pkgsrc-2010Q4 finish on 2.9 systems, for i386 and for x86_64. The uploads for 2.9/x86_64 seem to have completed…
‘file’ has been updated to version 5.05 by Peter Avalos. file(1) is one of those utilities that I forget is a contributed, external piece of software, even though it’s been in Unix since 1973.
(file is one year older than me!)
Sourceforge had/has a security problem, so they’ve turned off some services until it’s fixed. However, anything planning to download from Sourceforge will be affected, so some packages in pkgsrc may not be able to build for … a day or two?
Tim Bisson posted new network tests contrasting the virtio driver against emulated re(4) in virtual environments. Previously, the virtio driver performed worse, but a more developed test suite seems to deliver more positive results.
Samuel J. Greear has written a summary of DragonFly’s experience with Google Code-In 2011, noting that the students tacked harder projects than expected, and relatively easy documentation projects were less popular than expected. He has hard numbers on tasks done, too.
I think this article holds the “number of hyphens in a title” record for this blog.
The latest BSD Magazine is “BSD’s and Solaris“, and it sets my teeth on edge to write that apostrophe. Seen via FreeBSDNews, though I haven’t seen it noted in BSD Magazine-sourced email/RSS yet.