Alistair Crooks | 22 Mar 2002 21:32
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Summary of Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in February 2002

Summary Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in February 2002.
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[Apologies for the lateness of this summary. For a full list of
changes, please refer to the tech-pkg mailing list. - agc]

31 packages were added to pkgsrc last month, and 4 were removed,
which, by my calculations, gives a total of 2673 packages at the
beginning of March, up from 2646 at the beginning of February.

Notable additions include:  adjustkernel, ap-python, arch, gimp-print,
icewmconf, ipcheck, libexif, mp3blaster, mserv, openoffice (thanks,
Michael), opera6, various perl utilities, py-gimp, and other python
utilities, ripe-whois, tmda, tnef2txt, and xfrisk.

Notable updates include:  abiword, adzap, analog, ap-php, various
apache modules, balsa, cadaver, chasen, clisp, cups, dillo, dinotrace,
dt, dx, ethereal, fping, gaim, galeon, gauche, gentoo (thanks,
Thomas), ghostscript, gimp, gkrellm, gnumeric, gphoto, gqmpeg, gtkam,
horde, icewm, ipcalc, ipv6calc, irssi, iskmpd, jhead, jikes, jwhois,
libexif, libpcap, libusb, mew, mozilla, mpg123, ntp4, openldap,
openoffice, openssh, opera6, various perl utilities, various php
utilities (thanks, Johnny), pkglint, various python utilities, rsync
(after some exceptional debugging by mycroft), samba, screen, SDL,
sh-utils, silc client and server, squid, ssh, some of the suse
packages, tcpdump, tightvnc, ucd-snmp, unzip, uvscan-dat, verilog,
vim, webalizer, xmame, xpaint, xpdf, xscreensaver and xwrits.

The Package of the Month award is split, and goes to (a)
misc/bidwatcher, nominated by Martin Husemann:
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Takeshi Shibagaki | 25 Mar 2002 15:10
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NetBSD/mac68k has now switched to using ELF.


NetBSD/mac68k has now switched to using ELF for its default
object file format.

An ELF snapshot is available in:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/binary/

Upgrade instructions to ELF are also available:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/elf-upgrade/README.ELF-UPGRADE

Please read above the document in detail, and if you find any problems,
please report them using send-pr(1).

Enjoy,

Takeshi Shibagaki
ie9t-sbgk <at> asahi-net.or.jp


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