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NetBSD Packages Collection Freeze

Posted by timothy on from the admirable-restraint dept.

jschauma writes "Starting Monday, October 6th, 2003, the NetBSD Packages Collection will be frozen in order to stabilize pkgsrc on the various supported platforms. As Alistair Crooks explains in his message to the tech-pkg mailing list, this freeze is done so that the pkgsrc team can shake out bugs, fix broken packages and close pkgsrc related problem reports. If you want to help out, you can take a look at the PR database and submit patches."

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  1. Re:Hope they change a few things first... by saintlupus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    noticed in the bugs list someone has my pet peeve
    mentioned, namly the updating packages suck. There's
    nothing worse than updating libiconv and wondering
    why gnome and kde collection has disappeared. I've gotten
    to where instead of pkg_delete, I just do rm -rf /var/db/pkg/package_name
    Hopefully this will improve.

    Amen. Especially with all of these OpenSSH and OpenSSL bugs recently. I rebuild OpenSSL and then I have to rebuild OpenSSH and Pine, because they use the OpenSSL libraries.

    This is painful on a P-75. Not painful enough to get me to switch over to Debian or something like that, but painful.

    (And I know there are precompiled binaries for some of this stuff, but not for i386. Gee, I wish I had some kind of fucked up Japan only computer so that I didn't have to build everything by hand.)

    --Matt

  2. huh by vesamies · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    No one talks about *BSD at my local LUG. Do you know why?
    Maybe because it stands for Linux users group, huh.