Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert now has release, development, and preview versions of DragonFly built regularly on his server. In addition, he has the most recent version source for each type available as a .tar.bz2 file, for those who don’t want to grab it through cvsup.
The next release of DragonFly (1.4) will include pkgsrc, as Matthew Dillon described in a recent post. For those of us with 1.2 systems, some work is being done to create binary packages now, to ease the transition. The Wiki has some documentation on using pkgsrc.
Jeremy C. Reed posted his results from building all possible pkgsrc packages on DragonFly. More than half were successful already, and more (since he was building as non-root) should be possible. You can read his full post for details, but here’s a nice little summary:
Build started: Mon Aug 29 19:45:33 2005 GMT
Build ended: Wed Aug 31 03:36:14 2005 GMT
Successfully packaged: 2902
Packages really broken: 1037
Pkgs broken due to them: 1270
Total broken: 2307
Not packaged: 314
Total: 2621
UnixReview.com has a review of the book “Database in Depth“.
Matthew Dillon wrote a small entry on how he goes about merging important fixes back into the Release version of DragonFly.
There’s a petition on bsdnexus.comto bring Codeweavers’ Crossover Office to BSD (meaning FreeBSD, probably).
Update: I’ve traded a few emails with Frank Jahnke, the man behind this work, and I take back every unoptimistic thing I’ve ever said about it.
Matthew Dillon, while looking at a locking problem on chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de, happened to explain a bit about SPECFS and the trouble it causes.
Jeffrey Hsu has committed his new spinlock implementation – the commit message has a short explanation of how it was implemented.
I’ve upgraded the software behind this site; it should make no real difference to you, the reader. Please tell me if you encounter something that’s broken.
A big welcome to our two newest DragonFly committers: Sepherosa Ziehau and Noritoshi Demizu. Yep, those are names I’ll have to cut and paste.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has upgraded texinfo to version 4.8.
Matthew Dillon posted that the last (major) ABI changes are done, and Preview has been updated. If you’re running Preview, now is a good time to update. However, you’ll have to rebuild everything, as he describes.
Joerg Anslik has written a very complete bit of documentation on getting a Quake 3 Arena server running under DragonFly; it’s available on the Wiki.
Matthew Dillon posted a warning that the final ABI changes would go in this weekend, and that Preview would soon be bumped to match the bleeding-edge HEAD. That means everything on non-Release systems will have to be rebuilt – pkgsrc/port packages, too.
Jeremy C. Reed has started a bulk build of pkgsrc packages for DragonFly; so far, he has 907 built of 5,523. He’ll have a full report when it completes.
Matthew Dillon explained why his journaling system will be more like a transactional database. (He should know; he wrote one)
UnixReview.com has a review of “Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks“, an article about regular expressions titled “Don’t Fear Reliability“, and a review of the podcasting application jPodder, which may work on DragonFly
Matthew Dillon described some of the possibilities and hurdles for his journaling code.
Jeremy C. Reed announced a new roadmap (.pdf) for the planned BSD certification process at BSDCertification.org.