February 2010
47 posts
LTP for you and me →
Vincent Stemen has a compiled version of the Linux Test Project available to download and run for anyone interested in helping linuxulator progress. Note that this is not a coding exercise, but…
pkgsrc-2009Q4 release announcement →
It’s been available to build for some time, but the official announcement for pkgsrc-2009Q4 is out. It’s worth reading to see what new packages pushed it over the 9,000 mark.
January 2010
38 posts
New HAMMER presentation →
Michael Neumann presented a talk on HAMMER at the Karlsruher Institut
für Technologie on January 27th. His slides (in English) are now available in PDF or ODP formats, and are listed on the…
New BUF/BIO/VM API finished →
Matthew Dillon’s finished his work on a new API; he’s also posted a short wrapup. This fixes some issues found by fsx for UFS and Hammer, especially in low-memory situations.
Packages for 2.5/i386 available →
A fresh set of pkgsrc-2009Q4 packages for DragonFly 2.5.x/i386 are ready, and already available on avalon.dragonflybsd.org. pkg_radd will fetch them.
Google Summer of Code 2010: it’s on →
Google Summer of Code for 2010 is accepting applications from mentor organizations starting March 8th. Pending acceptance by Google, DragonFly will participate.
If you’ve got ideas, or if you…
Jan Lentfer trawls through contrib →
Jan Lentfer has an update for sendmail, an update for file, and also an update for groff. Apparently he really can whip it out.
(Man, it’s hard to track down the web page for…
Things that are done →
There’s a number of things that all came together in the last 24 hours or so, which means: bullet points!
Jen Lentfer took my suggestion and ran with it. He’s got an update to Sendmail 8.14.4 on…
Watch out on the bleeding edge with UFS →
If you’re running DragonFly 2.5 and updated in the past week or so, and have UFS disks, there’s some instability introduced by Matthew Dillon’s recent work. It ought to be better by next week.
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pkgsrc-2009Q4 binaries almost ready →
A build of pkgsrc-2009Q4 for DragonFly 2.4/i386 is complete, and uploading now to avalon.dragonflybsd.org. When the upload’s done, I’ll change the symlink so that pkg_radd downloads from the new…
BIND updated to 9.5.2-P2 →
BIND has been updated by Jan Lentfer, fixing two recent vulnerabilities. His note about the update has a link to vulnerability info, for the curious. Along the same lines, Jeremy C. Reed is …
A project: security checks for pkgsrc →
It’s been possible for some time to automatically check for vulnerabilities in installed pkgsrc packages. However, it requires some initial setup work. NetBSD now will check automatically if…
Recent development improvements →
Matthew Dillon has a summary of the development work he’s done over the past week or so. The condensed version: things faster, bugs fixed. Generally what you want to hear.
More pkgsrc chopping →
Joerg Sonnenberger’s planning to remove more old pkgsrc packages. This includes some packages like php4, which is common and also should die. There’s discussion that can be followed from the post…
Jobs jobs jobs →
The economy, at least in the U.S., seems to be improving. With that in mind, I’ve seen some traffic on the freebsd-jobs mailing list lately. BSD-specific jobs are harder to come by, so take a look…
DNSSEC now supported →
Jan Lentfer’s committed support for DNSSEC. It’s supported by default, meaning you can use it right now on a 2.5.1+ system. He’s tested it locally using these instructions, which I link to…
High-performance SSH patch added →
Peter Avalos has added the HPN patch for OpenSSH; the commit message notes changes and links to a page with far more detail and acronyms than I can easily fit in a post.
pkgsrc: it’s over 9,000! →
I started building the pkgsrc-2009Q4 packages on several machines tonight, and I noticed something. The previous quarterly release, pkgsrc-2009Q3, had 8,969 packages. This release has 9,100. That’s…
pkgsrc-2009Q4 branched →
There isn’t an official release announcement as of this moment, but the next quarterly release of pkgsrc is out. This is 2009Q4, meaning development happened in the 4th quarter of 2009. I’ll start…
Messylaneous for 2010/01/15 →
Still not used to typing “2010″.
I have no idea if bup is a worthwhile backup tool or even if it would compile on DragonFly, but more products should be described this way. (via)
I’ve seen…
