# $NetBSD: NEWS,v 1.1 2008/01/18 05:47:30 tnn Exp $ PKGSRC NEWS =========== This file contains information about important infrastructural changes in pkgsrc. The intended readers are the pkgsrc developers as well as anyone tracking pkgsrc-current. OpenSSL update [tnn 20080118] OpenSSL in pkgsrc switched from the 0.9.7 to the 0.9.8 branch. To accomodate for this, 596 packages dependent on openssl had their revisions bumped. pkgsrc-2007Q4 released [agc 20080105] A new stable branch was released. Read the announcement at: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2008/01/05/0000.html Simplifying meta-packages [rillig 20071219] The variable META_PACKAGE was introduced. This simplifies creation and maintenance of packages that do not install files. pkgsrc-2007Q3 released [agc 20071015] A new stable branch was released. Read the announcement at: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2007/10/15/0000.html Features framework [jlam 20070907] A "system features" framework has been added. It will be used to automatically supply missing "basic" headers and libraries for old systems. This is supported through the USE_FEATURES variable. X.org 6.9 removed [joerg 20070817] monolithic X.org 6.9 was removed from pkgsrc. It was obsoleted by the modular X.org (7.x) packages. Transitioning users should remove all old X.org packages and set X11_TYPE=modular in mk.conf. Emulator framework [jlam 20070729] A new emulator framework has been added. This will handle all binary-only packages that require emulation on the native OS. Please see pkgsrc/mk/emulator/README. audit-packages merged with pkg_install [adrianp 20070714] The utility for auditing installed packages for security problems, audit-packages, has been rewritten in C. It is now part of the pkgtools/pkg_install package. pkgsrc-2007Q2 released [agc 20070701] A new stable branch was released. Read the announcement at: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2007/07/01/0000.html New framework for bulk builds [joerg 20070619] pbulk, the new automated pkgsrc bulk build framework was imported. pkgsrc-2007Q1 released [agc 20070419] A new stable branch was released. Read the announcement at: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2007/04/19/0000.html pkgsrc-2006Q4 released [agc 20070104] A new stable branch was released. Read the announcement at: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2007/01/04/0000.html modular X.org imported [joerg 20061114] The modular X.org packages were imported. pkgsrc-2006Q3 released [agc 20061001] A new stable branch was released. Read the announcement at: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2006/10/01/0000.html