MidnightBSD News
From the MidnightBSD developer blog
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:41
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There's been a flurry of activity lately with mports. We've added a number of new ports including qt4.
Results from our last magus run:
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:30
Security
Various security issues have been reported in the last two months. It is important that users update their OS if they use IPV6 or ftpd. Updates have been committed to our src repository. At this time, we don't have a binary update system, so there is no method to update in that fashion.
All patches have been applied to RELENG_0_2 which is recommended for 0.2-RELEASE or 0.2.1-RELEASE users. 0.1 users can get some of the updates on RELENG_0_1 (cvs bran...
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:29
xfce 4 added to mports
We now have xfce 4.4.2 in mports. You may install xfce by using the new meta port mports/x11-wm/xfce4
We do not have a package at this time.
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:45
mports: xfce 3.x and linux-flock
xfce
Today, I added an xfce port to mports. It is only version 3, but the missing gdk-pixbuf dependancy was finally fixed. In case anyone is curious, I had to use our port of libtool to get it to build properly with shared libraries. xfce 4 is very large so I don't know about supporting it right away. This was done after a user request for xfce. I don't care for it.
flock
linux-flock was updated to 1.2.5 tod...
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:44
Desktop Backgrounds (wallpaper)
x11/themes/midnightbsd-backgrounds was added today. It includes several MidnightBSD inspired desktop backgrounds in PNG and JPEG format. ...
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:44
cvs mirror update change
I've changed the frequency that ds9's cvs mirror updates. It no longer rsync's every 30 minutes, but rather every 6 hours. The previous cycle was giving people trouble over slow links.
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Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:50
CVS activity blog
I've created a new CVS activity blog. It will display the commits to MidnightBSD in real time. Since CIA.vc is having reliability problems, this is a way for developers to check on recent activity while avoiding the large emails on the midnightbsd-cvs@midnightbsd.org list. However, the formatting sucks and I don't have messages included yet. I'll try to tackle that after I get some sleep.
The upside t...
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:58
Ports work
This weekend, crash@ and I started updating Gnome ports to 2.22.3 (from 2.22.0). Not all Gnome related ports will be changed. Several bug fixes are included in this update.
We hope to have a magus run this week provided the updated cluster software is ready. ctriv@ has been working on parallel operation for nodes with more than one core. Some of the new GX270 dell systems the computer science depar...
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:28
ViewVC, mports, CURRENT
I just added viewvc to the website. You may use this in addition to cvsweb.
We've had a lot of mport activity this week. In particular, several dependancies were fixed for Gnome, mono was updated to 1.2.5.2 (and it's doc port), and crash@ is working on bugzilla 3.x. There are several new ports and portlint fixes.
I'm in the process of doing some merges from FreeBSD in our CURRENT for t...
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:37
0.2.1 sparc64 pending
The sparc64 package build completed. It's taken like two weeks. We had 63 failures and 160 ports that were not tested. 57 ports were skipped. That leaves us with 1479 passes and 456 warns. Very good considering this isn't a highly active architecture.
I'm planning on rolling a release in the next week, but I am very busy so I don't want to promise a date. I doubt the line is very big for this one anyway. Packages will be put on the...
Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:20
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I just installed a new SSL certificate for www.midnightbsd.org. You can use it with cvsweb, etc.
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Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:13
New ports
I added several ports last night at the request of a user. Amarok is now available. I recommend that you grab the gcc 4.1 package before building as this will save you a lot of time. Without a newer version of GCC, I received several C++ errors. It sucks, but it's better than not having the port. GNUstep users will already have this installed most likely.
With that port, I brought in several additional audio librar...
Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:01
Getting MidnightBSD
One of the most common problems we've had is getting MidnightBSD. Previously, I wrote about a torrent available for disc1. One user has reported problems with that torrent. The other options are typically the mirrors.
The main site is currently rsyncing with two mirrors to distribute the new amd64 release. The site will most likely be slow for the next 24 hours.
I've b...
Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:17
MidnightBSD i386 0.2.1-RELEASE CDs
For those of you who can't download ISOs....
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