pkgsrc-2014Q3 ============= The pkgsrc team is proud to announce the availability of the pkgsrc-2014Q3 branch. We welcome gcc-4.9 packages, say hello to snobol again, note that some R packages have moved within pkgsrc to better reflect their functionality, and X11 on netbsd-5 now defaults to modular. Number of Packages ================== In pkgsrc, there are: 15186 possible pkgsrc packages in pkgsrc-2014Q3 12335 pkgsrc entries as reported by lintpkgsrc (unique package Makefiles) 14741 binary packages built with clang for NetBSD-current/x86_64 13120 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/i386 13026 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/x86_64 13484 binary packages built with gcc for Linux-2.6.32/x86_64 11478 binary packages built with gcc for Darwin 10.8.0/i386 12363 binary packages built with clang for FreeBSD 10.0/x86_64 (also 13016 binary packages built with dash as shell and gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/i386) In addition, this quarter: 210 packages have been added 3 packages have been renamed 15 packages removed, 12 with a successor 1123 packages updated Pkgsrc Release Schedule ======================= The pkgsrc developers make a new release every three months. We believe that this is a sweet spot between too many updates, and keeping abreast of issues like security vulnerabilities. Pkgsrc is not tied to any one operating system or architecture, which gives us the ability to decouple the releases from any operating system releases, and to concentrate on the packages themselves. This is the 44th quarterly release of pkgsrc. Changes to pkgsrc ================= Ryosuke Moro continues to improve our haskell package support. Many pkgsrc developers and contributors have all all helped with PR submissions, fixes and bug reports. Package Additions ================= gcc-4.9 and tinyxml2 were added to pkgsrc, as well as python, perl and ruby wrappers for many libraries. It's also worth noting that the bash patch from pkgsrc to disable function definitions in the environment, made by Christos Zoulas, has been adopted by many in mitigating the shellshock bug. Package Removals ================ We actively manage the packages in pkgsrc, and delete ones that are not necessary. We said goodbye to subversion-1.6 and eric3 for this branch. Other Changes ============= Greg Troxel made the default X11 version for NetBSD-5 to be the modular X11 as found in pkgsrc. The march of the haskell pkgsrc entries continues, thanks to Ryosuke Moro. We welcome reports for building pkgtools/cwrapper on exotic platforms. It will soon become a central part of the pkgsrc infrastructure. All feedback to Joerg Sonnenberger (joerg@pkgsrc.org) or tech-pkg@pkgsrc.org, please. Pkgsrc-security =============== One neat feature of pkgsrc is its ability to sort package versions based on the version numbers. It's used in audit-packages, to report on any installed packages which may have security vulnerabilities in them. pkgsrc-security@pkgsrc.org maintains lists of vulnerable packages, along with reference URLs relating to the exposure. We thank the whole pkgsrc-security team for their hard work. Sample output from audit-packages is shown below: % audit-packages Package bash-4.3 has a arbitrary-code-execution vulnerability, see http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6271 Package bash-4.3 has a arbitrary-code-execution vulnerability, see http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7169 % Getting pkgsrc ============== More information can be found in http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html tar files for pkgsrc, along with checksums, can be found at http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2014Q3/ and anonymous cvs can be used: cvs -z3 -q -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -r pkgsrc-2014Q3 -P pkgsrc or by pulling from the git mirrors at: https://github.com/jsonn/pkgsrc https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc or the mercurial mirror at: https://bitbucket.org/agc/pkgsrc.hg About pkgsrc ============ pkgsrc is a cross-platform packaging system. It allows people to download sources and to build and install binary packages on one or more platforms. Building packages from source is useful for a number of reasons: + not only is the provenance of source code checked (by using multiple checksums), with pkgsrc, the version of source code you are working with is the same that other developers and users have. + package builders can choose to customise their own installations by means of the option framework. pre-built packages from other builders may not have specified the same options. + patches are maintained in a central repository, and, again, are checked at patch application time by using digests. The patches which are applied to the sources being built are the same ones which are known to be used and proved by other pkgsrc users (not necessarily on the same platform). + by building from source, all doubts about compilers, build practices, source code cleanliness, and packaging differences are removed. Digital signatures of binary packages, while useful in themselves, only prove certain aspects of binary package provenance. (pkgsrc has had signed packages since 2001.) + it may be difficult or impossible to find a pre-built package for the operating system or architecture. + a pre-built package may have further or conflicting pre-requisites, which are themselves difficult to find or build. By building everything, including pre-requisites, a from-source packaging system can ensure that pre-requisites are present and integrated. At the present time, pkgsrc supports 22 platforms: AIX BSDOS Cygwin Darwin/Mac OS X DragonFly FreeBSD FreeMiNT GNU/kFreeBSD HPUX Haiku IRIX Interix/SFU/SUA Linux Minix3 MirBSD NetBSD OSF1 OpenBSD QNX SCO OpenServer Solaris/illumos UnixWare Complete dependency and pre-requisite package information is held and used by the package management software - if packages rely on other packages to function properly, that pre-requisite will be built, installed and managed as part of the package installation process. Binary packages can be managed using pkgin. Alistair Crooks On behalf of the pkgsrc developers Wed Oct 1 01:20:50 UTC 2014