Better history

Aaron Malone submitted (and Hiten Pandya committed) a whole lot of man page changes to account for changes from FreeBSD to DragonFly in system name but not history. Specifically, the HISTORY sections. It’s not glamorous, but it’s good to do it.

Packaging thoughts

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has posted his initial thoughts about a packaging system; discussion about is on the dragonfly.kernel mailing list/newsgroup. Simon wants to move fast – 1-2 weeks for suggestions, then some weeks for implementation planning, and then jump in!

Permamixer

If you now set mixer_enable="YES" in rc.conf, your mixer settings will get saved, thanks to ibotty’s idea and Joerg Sonnenberger’s commit.

(I’m writing this without trying it, but that’s how I read it…)

dfports report

Joerg Sonnenberger has done some major cleanup to dfports. A cvsup would be a good idea.

A quote from him follows:

“Hi all, next time you update your dfports tree, you must update
/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk and /usr/share/mk/bsd.dfport.mk too. This should fix a lot of the problems various people mentioned in the past weeks. You should also check the dependencies e.g. of GTK+, if you haven’t rebuild your ports after January 25th. Otherwise the dependencies recorded are supposedly broken.”

ACPI added

Matt Dillon has brought in the December 2003 release of ACPI (acpica-unix-20031203) from Intel. The old code is still what’s on by default, as the new code builds but does not yet work.

Living dangerously

Peter Kadau answered a question from Jonathon McKitrick about getting rid of your boot manager, if you just have DragonFly:

boot0cfg -o noupdate -s 1 -t 0 -B ad0

Matt Dillon followed up on the topic mentioning that the ‘Dangerously Dedicated’ mode from the old FreeBSD installer is probably no longer worthwhile, and may even cause problems.

ATAng just in case

Matt Dillon posted that if the recent ATAng integration keeps your IDE controller from working (though the opposite is more common), do:

#define NO_ATANG in /usr/src/sys/dev/disk/ata/ata-all.h