December 2003 - crux-devel

[clc-devel] Port updates
by Johannes Winkelmann 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Hey everyone, after rejecting the 2nd non-member post with updated ports from unmaintained I'm wondering whether we should make a note on clc.berlios.de about our policy regarding updating ports. IIRC the basic idea was to keep unmaintained untouched and only change contrib... I know this didn't work (I have myself updated unmaintained ports at times to make the build again), but I'm not a fan of accepting changes against unmaintained before we have guidelines for submitting them (what to include, format etc). I guess it's time to remember Markus' mail [1] and consider dropping unmaintained completely. We have three kind of ports right now: 1. contrib 2. unmaintained (but updated) 3. unmaintained and forgotten I see basically two approaches: a) we allow external contributors to send back their changes (which will require a well defined procedure) b) we move port in 2. into our personal httpup repos and invite everyone to participate ports using httpup as well, covering all ports which are currently in unmaintained and updated at times. Like this, we only loose those ports which aren't in use. We should then probably consider a better way to list httpup repos, maybe even searchable; maybe a little repo browser tool in Ruby? To me, this is just a discussion about the idea behind CLC; to me, it is to provide good ports, therefore I'm all in favor of Plan B :-) Comments appreciated Best regards, Johannes References: 1 http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/clc-devel/2003-October/000141.html -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Biel, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net

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[clc-devel] grip Pkgfile
by Carlo Ghiggi 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

A updated port for grip. regards /Carlo -- X-Mailer: Mutt/1.4.1i on CRUX 1.3 GNU/Linux box | LinuxMachine 204914 Progetto CRUX Italia: www.crux-it.org GPG/PGP Key-Id: 0x75A9985F on keyserver.linux.it

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[clc-devel] pkgs
by Emil Österlund 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

A updated port for realplayer. It automaticly downloads the source and has dependencies. /Emil

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[clc-devel] fceu
by Emil Österlund 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

A working package for FCEU wich is a nes emulator. /e

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[clc-devel] new release numbers?
by Martin Opel 13 Dec '03

13 Dec '03

Hi everybody, I discovered at least two ports, which need a recompile after update: apache and ruby and all other ports which where linked to libgdbm. We should increase the release number of these two ports, so everybody knows the need for a recompile. Two more questions: who wants to maintain the mozilla port in the future? And what will we do with the mozilla-flash-plugin? One port with files for firebird and mozilla or one port for mozilla and one port for firebird? Bye Martin -- martin opel / fachbereich informatik - fachhochschule regensburg / email: martin.opel(a)informatik.fh-regensburg.de / web: http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~opel/ / phone: +49 941 943-1336, fax: +49 941 943-1426

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[clc-devel] 1.3 status
by Per Liden 06 Dec '03

06 Dec '03

Hi all, No big problems have been found with the 1.3-test1 ISO so I'll release that as 1.3-final. It looks like most (at least a lot of) clc/contrib ports has been updated to work with 1.3 so I'll upload the 1.3 ISO to the CRUX ftp and make an announcement as soon as some mirror also has it. /Per

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[clc-devel] Ports servers security
by Logan Ingalls 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Not that we're as large of a target for hackers, but one of Gentoo's central rsync servers was hacked yesterday: http://lwn.net/Articles/61229/ I figured this might make a good time to ask: "How secure are cvsup.fukt.bth.se and crux.fh-regensburg.de?" Logan

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[clc-devel] CRUX 1.3 test1 now available
by Per Liden 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hi all, A test ISO for CRUX 1.3 is now available at http://www.fukt.bth.se/~per/crux/files/crux-1.3/ I haven't done much testing yet, only one upgrade and one clean install, but so far things are looking good. I would appreciate any help I could get with testing this more. So if you have time please install it and use it for a day or two. Report possible problems or success stories. I hope, to be able to just rename the ISO file to crux-1.3.iso and release it in a couple of days. Only if very serious problems are found will I rebuild it. /Per

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[clc-devel] Update scenario
by Johannes Winkelmann 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hey everyone, I guess all of you have read the announcement of the upcoming CRUX 1.3 release. I was just wondering whether we could organize the update of CLC ports a bit; I was mainly thinking about installing either a pre-release (if there's any; Per? *g*) or 1.3 release version on some PC and trying to build all ports which have the CONTRIB-1_2 tag. Using the resulting list, we could very quickly set the new tags for ports which build fine, making the number of ports to test remarkable smaller. Even if some ports don't build because of missing dependencies or similar, the work required to get all ports tagged CONTRIB-1_3 would hopefully much very shorter. Of course, this would require an available host to test build those packages, but that's an implementation issue not to be considered for now :-) Comments welcome. Kind regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Biel, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net

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