My bulk build of pkgsrc binaries for 1.12 is taking quite a while to finish, but you can grab completed binaries from pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org or (even better) one of the mirrors.
Johnny C. Lam posted his grand plan for Ruby packages in pkgsrc, including use of Ruby’s internal ‘gems‘ packaging method.
Mark Weinem passed along a link to the second part of the “10 Years of pkgsrc” articles. (First part still available here.) In addition to more coverage of pkgsrc, it also delves into PacmanGoboLinux, mports, and Zero Install.
Edit: It’s GoboLinux, not just pacman; thanks, Mark!
Thomas Klausner is removing some software from pkgsrc; check to see that it’s not still installed on your system.
Adam Hoka is running another hackathon, based on pkgsrc-wip packages (hence ‘Wipathon‘), this weekend and next. Contributions from people willing to run patched programs – say, testing DragonFly support – are welcome.
Pkgsrc users with binutils 2.17 from pkgsrc may have odd crashes caused by binutils using the wrong ld, as Tobias Nygren recently warned on the pkgsrc-users@ list.
I’m changing the layout of the pkgsrc binary archive; see my message to kernel@ for details.
The database package Postgres, in pkgsrc, is going to version 8.3, and version 8.0 is being removed. If you aren’t familiar with Postgres, it’s the database that people call ‘real’ in contrast to MySQL, for reasons I’m not yet qualified to list.
OpenLDAP in pkgsrc has undergone a major upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4; Geert Hendrix’s pkgsrc-users message has more information on how to handle the upgrade.
Matthias Schmidt has committed Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert’s pkg_radd, a wrapper script that allows installation of pkgsrc binaries, even if there isn’t a local pkgsrc tree. Check the commit message for an explanation, or the script itself for the details. Note that this is a DragonFly-specific pkgsrc utility, meaning it doesn’t appear on any other pkgsrc platform.
The 2007Q4 quarterly release of pkgsrc is out, with almost 7,500 packages available. Prebuilt binaries for DragonFly will be available ‘soon’.
pkgsrcCon for 2008 is happening June 13th-15th in Berlin. If you are planning to present a paper there, their call for papers is up. You have until May 25th.
If you still have any applications using PHP 4 on your system, you should upgrade to PHP 5.x soon.
wrote a ‘pkg_search‘ utility that runs a bit more easily than ‘bmake search’ for finding packages in pkgsrc. It’s available from his site, which has a number of other utilities and papers on it worth reading.
Results from the bulk builds of pkgsrc are now available at http://pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org/package-reports/. There’s several reports in there already, for anyone who wants to see what isn’t working. (hint: net-snmp.)
Ulrich Habel put together a script to digest emailed pkgsrc bulk build reports. You can see the output at his site.
There’s a pkgsrc hackathon coming up on November 3rd-4th – check the wiki page for more details. As with previous hackathons, communication is over IRC, so participation can be from anywhere.
Hubert Feyrer found “T2“, a Linux-based third-party software compilation system that can cross-compile for multiple targets. He’s offering a small bounty (along with some others) for anyone who can get pkgsrc to accomplish the same level of cross-compilation as T2 within 6 months.
I’ve completed a build of the most recent quarterly version (2007Q3) of pkgsrc, and the files are present on pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org. You can read a report of what did and did not build at the same site.