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2013/10/262013/10/25

In Other BSDs for 2013/10/26

Once again, doing this at the last minute:

FreeBSD supports the FreeScale Fast Ethernet controller on a number of SoC systems.
FreeBSD’s jemalloc has been updated to 3.4.1.
FreeBSD has initial support for the RealTek RTL8106E PCIe Fast Ethernet chipset.
FreeBSD has significant changes to the CAM subsystem.
FreeBSD has initial support for the Rockchip RK3188 SoC.
FreeBSD has an updated oce(4) driver, directly supported by Emulex, the vendor. (always nice to see vendor support.)
FreeBSD now has a /usr/tests.
There’s some NetBSD in your Mercedes.
the safety of the internet is called into doubt
OpenBSD supports the cubieboard and other allwinner devices.
OpenBSD supports the XBox controller.
A few packages are being retired from pkgsrc because of lack of DESTDIR support.

2013/10/152013/10/13

Getting pkgsrc

As a followup to news that the git feed of pkgsrc through dragonflybsd.org is not being updated, Max Herrgard wrote out how to fetch pkgsrc via CVS, or tarball, or another git feed. CVS is still the ‘official’ way.

2013/10/112013/10/10

DragonFly pkgsrc repo is frozen

The pkgsrc repository in git for DragonFly is currently frozen. This is because many people have switched over to dports, and also because it’s a lot of work to keep it functional. If you do want to pull newer pkgsrc material, use cvs and grab it from a NetBSD server.

As the message notes, don’t go switching to DragonFly-current right now, cause there’s a lot of new material in there and it may not be quite safe. (There’s an ABI change that will require all new builds of your ports, for instance.)

2013/10/052013/10/04

In Other BSDs for 2013/10/05

Less straight source links this week.

FreeBSD 9.2 is out.
FreeBSD no longer has GNU ar or GNU ranlib, or BIND.
FreeBSD has an Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution update. (OFED info) (helps DragonFly)
NetBSD has initial support for the OMAP1-183 board.
NetBSD has updated terminfo to 20130607.
NetBSD has imported FreeBSD’s new implementation of NFS – does not run yet.
NetBSD 6.1.2 and 6.0.3 are out.
The pkgsrc-2013Q3 freeze is over, and here’s the branch announcement.
There’s some discussion of long-term support in pkgsrc, an idea I like.
EuroBSDCon 2013 presentations for OpenBSD are online.
OpenBSD now has a built-in snmp client. Undeadly has a description.
OpenBSD now has ntpctl(8), for querying ntpd.
There’s a new MaheshaBSD video on YouTube. (it’s a custom FreeBSD setup, though DragonFly versions exist too.)

Related to DragonFly: Patrick Welche updated glib2 in pkgsrc, and is interested in hearing how it works for DragonFly users. If you have pkgsrc on your system and it’s not a quarterly release, try building t.

2013/09/30

Why dports?

DragonFly has generally shifted over to dports for 3rd-party software management, away from pkgsrc. Because of that, I haven’t been building binary packages of the quarterly pkgsrc releases. Pierre Abbat asked why on users@, and here’s my explanation of the change.

2013/09/212013/09/22

In Other BSDs for 2013/09/21

Finally, a quieter week.

pfSense (which I use at work; performs great) has updated to 2.1, and now offers a ‘Gold‘ subscription program.
FreeBSD has a new iSCSI target and initiator. (World rebuild needed and again)
FreeBSD’s bxe(4) now supports the BCM57712 and BCM578XX.
FreeBSD now can build LLDB, though you have to do it on purpose.
FreeBSD’s arcmsr(4) driver for Areca hardware has been updated. (Areca supports BSD; buy them)
NetBSD has Renesas and ASIX AX88179 USB support.
NetBSD has a preliminary NVIDIA Geforce driver.
NetBSD has updated to dhcpcd-6.1.0.
NetBSD has updated to tzcode 2013e.
QNAP V200 boards all have the same MAC? Weird.
OpenBSD updated a large number of xenocara windowing parts.
The pkgsrc-2013Q3 freeze is on from now to the 29th.

2013/09/142013/09/13

In Other BSDs for 2013/09/14

Barely getting this done in time for Saturday…

FreeBSD can now download firmware for Samsung drives.
FreeBSD has updated ipfilter to 5.1.2.
FreeBSD has updated to OpenPAM Nummularia.
On FreeBSD, clang means no gcc or libstdc++. (part of the switch)
FreeBSD has new Hyper-V drivers.
NetBSD has support for the ‘4G Systems XS Stick W14’.
NetBSD has updated Postfix to 2.8.15.
NetBSD has a pile of Broadcom chipset changes.
NetBSD has support for the MPL115A2 pressure sensor.
NetBSD has a start on xhci (AKA USB3) support.
OpenBSD has support for the FreeScale i.MX6 SoC.
OpenBSD enabled support for TLS/SSL Perfect Forward Secrecy.
OpenBSD 5.4 is available for pre-order.
OpenBSD used to build an MPLS network.
PC-BSD is going to start building on FreeBSD-10.
The pkgsrc-2013Q3 pre-release freeze starts tomorrow.

2013/08/312013/08/30

In Other BSDs: 2013/08/31

I need to update this post during the week as I see stuff, or else I spend an hour rushing to get it all together before Satuday. I need to start watching PC-BSD src changes, too.

DiscoverBSD has a recent BSD roundup, too.
EuroBSDCon registration is 20% off but just today.
Using 6rd in OpenBSD.
FreeBSD has imported the Radeon KMS driver.
FreeBSD’s mfiutil has JOBD support.
FreeBSD has ARMv6/7 superpages support.
FreeBSD supports the PCI-E SSD in the Macbook Air. (It needs separate support?)
FreeBSD has updated support for Centrino 2200-N wireless.
FreeBSD has a speedup in madvise calls.
FreeBSD is using PCIDs on Intel chips to reduce process switch latency.
NetBSD has the start of a potential lint replacement, called ‘mint‘.
NetBSD supports the BCM57762 and BCM57765 chips, for Thunderbolt <-> Ethernet.
OpenBSD has support for more ciss(4) devices, via FreeBSD.
OpenBSD has updated to pixman 0.30.2, DejaVu Fonts 2.34, libX11 1.6.1, and xterm 296, and added ipv6-toolkit 1.4.
pkgsrc nearly has a signed packages mechanism.

2013/08/24

In Other BSDs: 2013/08/24

I hope I’m catching the interesting stuff; I’m only reading the src changes.

A talk about pkgsrc at a YAPC conference.
FreeBSD has improved parallel read performance by changing how locks work.
FreeBSD has enabled VFP in QEMU. No, I don’t know what that means.
FreeBSD has upgraded to BIND 9.9.3-P2.
FreeBSD has imported NetBSD’s libexecinfo-20130822.
FreeBSD has imported OpenBSD’s vmx(4) VMWare network driver.
FreeBSD has upgraded to ACPICA 20130823.
NetBSD has added ‘multigest’, for calculating multiple digests in parallel.
NetBSD has updated to Postfix 2.9.7.
NetBSD now supports the Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 Wi-Fi controller.
OpenBSD has updated a number of x* utilities in xenocara, including xserver.

2013/08/032013/07/31

In Other BSDs for 2013/08/03

How many tags can I fit on this post? I think I’ll aim for Saturday for these BSD catchup posts. In theory, I can prep this and the Sunday Lazy Reading posts ahead of time, since they tend to be all-week items, and have the whole weekend covered.

BeagleBone systems are getting popular.
Distributed chrooted pkgsrc bulk builds. Very necessary documentation.
…And a script to do all the setup for those builds.
The VBSDCon site has more details on the upcoming convention. (via)
The cxgbe(4) device has hardware dedicated to sniffing packets?
FreeBSD has switched to the BSD-licensed version of patch.
FreeBSD has an updated ACPI implementation.
FreeBSD is importing OpenBSD’s rsu(4) wireless Realtek driver. Needs firmware.
What’s new in pkgsrc-2013Q2. With screenshots!
NetBSD now supports 2 new Centrino Wireless-N devices.
NetBSD now has BIND 9.9.3-p2
PHP 5.5 has hit pkgsrc.

2013/07/252013/07/28

In Other BSDs summary

Here’s what jumped out at me from reading source change mailing lists:

pkgsrc now has Ruby 2.0.
NetBSD now has wpa_supplicant and hostapd, and dhcpcd 6.0.3.
NetBSD supports Nanjing QinHeng Electronics devices via puc(4). No idea what that is.
NetBSD also supports Intel 8 Series SMBus devices, which I mention just because finding the right drivers for SMBus devices always frustrated me on Windows.
NetBSD’s hostname has some new options.
FreeBSD supports Coleto Creek devices: SATA, SMBus, and Watchdog. Not sure if that’s a brand name or a special type of construction. Also, AR934x and the Qualcomm Atheros DB120 development board, and the Broadcom BCM5725 network controller.
OpenBSD now has sshd supporting encrypted host keys. I can’t find an open mail archive with OpenBSD source-changes as an archived list, so I don’t seem to be able to link to it directly.

I’m going to have to set a specific day of the week aside for these.

2013/07/082013/07/08

Release announcement for pkgsrc-2013Q2

The pkgsrc-2013Q2 branch has been out for some days, but the official release announcement has now been published, with details on the number of ports. You should be able to pull it down from dragonflybsd.org via git, by the way.

2013/07/04

pkgsrc-2013Q2 is out

The official announcement has gone out. You should be able to pull pkgsrc-2013Q2 via git from dragonflybsd.org within the next 24 hours.

2013/06/26

OpenJDK7, everywhere

It looks like OpenJDK7 works in pkgsrc for DragonFly, thanks to Ryo ONODERA, and I think it’s working in dports too.

2013/06/20

pkgsrc freeze for 2013Q2 is on

Whoops, I missed this when it happened, but: the freeze for pkgsrc-2013Q2 has started. That new quarterly release is anticipated for the end of the month.

2013/06/08

pkgsrc-2013Q2 freeze coming up

The next pkgsrc freeze is planned for June 17th, 9 days from now. So, get your changes in now, for 2013Q2…

2013/06/07

Creating new pkgsrc packages, a lesson

Johnathan Perkin has a nice tutorial up about creating pkgsrc packages. It’s done on SmartOS, but I imagine it’ll generally apply to anything pkgsrc supports.

2013/06/05

Pkgsrc and xorg, native vs. packaged

NetBSD uses pkgsrc but ships a version of xorg with NetBSD. This is effectively producing the same code twice. There’s a long discussion on tech-pkg@ (first article linked; keep reading) about moving to the pkgsrc version of xorg for NetBSD, which seems like a good idea for focusing effort, as far as I can tell. The thread goes on quite a way.

2013/05/31

3.4.2 images uploaded

I finally got DragonFly 3.4.2 img/iso files uploaded, so they are available now or at least soon at your local mirror. These are built using pkgsrc, so if you want dports, go for a snapshot image.

2013/05/30

More download statistics

There’s more download statistics on dports and pkgsrc packages, from Francois Tigeot. There’s a heck of a lot of dports activity, though there’s probably much more pkgsrc building from source than this would report on. So, not necessarily representative of actual numbers, but an interesting ratio none the less.