MidnightBSD News
From the MidnightBSD developer blog
Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:40
Fun brainfuck resources
http://jonripley.com/brainfuck/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
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Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:04
We got brainfuck
brainfuck(1) has been added to MidnightBSD. Check it out.
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Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:26
LLVM
The devel/llvm and devel/llvm-devel mports have been updated to 2.7 and 2.8. lang/llvm-gcc4 is now at 2.7 as well. We've also got a binutils 2.20.1 port now in devel/binutils.
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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:06
zlib 1.2.4 update
zlib has been updated to 1.2.4 in current. Please report any problems experienced with the new version (if any)
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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:05
New mports/security/skipfish port
I created a skipfish port today. It's a web app security scanner written in C.
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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:25
www/browser35 update
The browser port has been updated. The new version needs further testing and some options aren't quite right yet. We need to get dbus support working and ogg. SVG has been enabled and it's up to 3.5.8 which includes all current security updates.
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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:50
Magus results for amd64 current
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172 0.3 amd64 active 2010-02-28 21:03:53
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:52
More ports work
I'm trying to get the mports tree back in line as it used to be. I just indexed a magus run. It will be the first since January 24th. Several fetch errors and dependancies have been fixed since the last run. It will be interesting. This does not use the new "jail" index setup that the January run went on. I haven't had time to set that back up on the new server yet. A few failures may be the result of that, particluarly with perl related ports. We'll see.
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Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:09
mports updates
Yesterday, I updated over 70 ports. mports/audio ports have all been updated if needed and several in multimedia. I also updated browser3 to 3.0.18 this weekend.
Our status on gnome2 is that many of the core systems including gstreamer related ports are now working, but we have some issues with gnome-desktop preventing a gnome2-lite build from working.
kde3-base is blocked on a depends against mDNSresponder and avahi. I'm trying to figure out what's pulling in avahi. These ports do effectively the same thing and they conflict with each other.
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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:05
FTP status update
The FTP server is back online. 45GB of data copied. I've also posted the new snapshot for i386 tonight.
Mirmon is now getting updated again with FTP history. Most sites haven't tried to sync for a week. Of course there was nothing to sync. I'm going to verify that rsync is working properly tomorrow.
A few CGI scripts and portions of the site including viewvc and the wiki are still down. cvsupd is also not operational due to problems on amd64. (i switched architectures in the move) Once the port is fixed, I'll get it back online. Patches are welcome to speed up the process :)
The news script should be rotating again on midnightbsd.org.
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Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:13
0.3-CURRENT Snapshot
I'm pleased to announce a new i386 snapshot for MidnightBSD. This is the first snap in some time and a big improvement over our previous snapshot. It does not contain mports, but is a fully functioning installer. I've tested it on VMWare Fusion with great success.
This version includes this weekends work on ata(4), re(4), and rl(4).
I'm going to upload it as soon as the FTP is in place.
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Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:11
FTP
The MidnightBSD FTP server has been down since the server migration. I'm working on getting it back into place. It's over 32GB in size currently.
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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:58
Apache 2.2 port
I've made several changes to the Apache 2.2 port. mod_proxy_connect should now work properly and scgi has been added to the list. I've also added support for BDB 4.x
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Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:30
(no subject)
Tip: If you're using MidnightBSD current, you can try out the netpgp utility as part of the base system. It allows you to do PGP operations without installing a port.
There's also the new unzip utility which works for basic unzip operations but doesn't always work as a replacement for the port version.
There's also been some recent improvements to several periodic scripts; be sure to mergemaster if you upgrade to recent current.
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Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:26
Status udpate
Magus website and bugzilla are back up. I also committed a fix for the seg faulting sftp problem on some systems. I've noticed it on amd64.
Several perl prots were updated today and I found a bug in XML:Parser. Don't give it two single ticks in a row.
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