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Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński | 20 Sep 10:42
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New catalog layout

Hello OpenCSW users,

After a break, we have started pushing new packages to the mirrors
again.  The release process is now automated, allowing frequent
releases to the unstable catalog.  Even though the break in pushing
packages to the mirrors has been on hold for about two months, the
work on packages has been continuing in the development catalogs.  The
main change is that we created a new signing key and started to push
the new packages to the official mirrors.  There is a couple cool
updates in the pipeline, including gcc-4.6, php-5 and apache-2.2.
They are available in the unstable catalog and getting more testing
before they get promoted to testing.  To learn what 'unstable', and
'testing' mean, please read on.

There has been a change to the catalog layout.  Previously, the
catalogs were laid out as follows:

- current contained all the new releases
- unstable was a backward-compatible symlink to current
- stable was an old, dead release

The new layout is as follows:

- dublin is the named release we're working on right now
- unstable is a quickly changing catalog which gets all the new releases
- current is a symlink to dublin (for compatibility purposes)
- testing is a symlink to dublin (will eventually change to the next
named release)
- stable is still an old, dead release
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Ben Walton | 6 Sep 16:53
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gpg key change

Hi All,

As part of the new release process, we have installed a new gpg key.
Catalogs are already being signed with the new key.
You can find the public half on our website[1] or grab it with gpg
--recv-key.  There is also a package that can deliver the key which is
named CSWcswpki.  The key id is 9306CC77.

Thanks
-Ben
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Systems Programmer - CHASS
University of Toronto
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Ben Walton | 7 Apr 15:21
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apache2 update info


Hi All,

A quick note about some changes in the apache2 updates...

If you don't have CSWapache2 installed, you'll want to install it.  It
now contains the actual files (binaries, config, etc) and the smf
integration.

As it was possible to have a working apache2 install without
CSWapache2 previously[1], this is something you'll want to pay
attention to.

Thanks
-Ben

[1] It's still possible to get a non-working install due to external
    dependencies, but bugs have been filed against the apprporiate
    packages.
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Ben Walton
Systems Programmer - CHASS
University of Toronto
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İhsan Doğan | 27 Feb 11:59
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Website and mailing lists outage

Dear OpenCSW users,

The University of Applied Sciences in Biel (Switzerland) [1] hosted and
provided the bandwidth for the web and mail server of the OpenCSW
project since the beginnings. Unfortunately, the university cannot
sponsor the OpenCSW project any longer and we were forced to look for a
new solution.

Solnet [2], an ISP based in Solothurn (Switzerland), is so kind and is
going to sponsor hosting and internet connectivity for the OpenCSW
project. The mail and web server will be moved to their data center on
Monday, the 28th February 2010.

Following services will be not available on Monday 28th February, from
9:00 UTC till 14:00 UTC:
- The project website and bug tracker on www.opencsw.org
- Mailing lists

[1] http://www.hti.bfh.ch/
[2] http://www.solnet.ch/

Thanks for your patience,
Ihsan Dogan

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Ben Walton | 19 Dec 23:43
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Announcing the new Board


Hello OpenCSW Users,

Last week, a new board was elected by the OpenCSW membership.  The
results of this election saw Ihsan Dogan, Maciej Blizinski and myself
elected.  After some discussion, the board roles have been assigned as
follows:

President: Ben Walton
Treasurer: Ihsan Dogan
Secretary: Maciej Blizinski

We are all excited about this new chapter in OpenCSW and look forward
to serving both the user and maintainer communities.

Thank you.
Ben, Maciej and Ihsan
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Systems Programmer - CHASS
University of Toronto
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Kester Habermann | 28 Oct 09:17
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py_ldap

Dear users:
The pkg name for py_ldap has changed, from CSWpyldap, to CSWpy-ldap.

Please be aware if you use this package, that you may want to manually
remove the older version for upgrading purposes.

Best Regards

Kester
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William Bonnet | 14 Jun 00:06

The new web site is online

Hi

I'm pleased to announce that the new website is online.

Feedbacks, improvements and bugs report are welcome  :) 

Kind regards,
W.

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http://www.opencsw.org 	 Community SoftWare for Solaris
http://www.guses.org     French speaking Solaris User Group
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Philip Brown | 30 May 01:40

Warning: Programs and libraries under /opt/csw/X11 in flux

To our esteemed users:
Please be warned --  We are redoing our X11 support strategy at this time.
This means that some programs that use libraries under /opt/csw/X11/lib
may get broken by updates over the following weeks. 
We are planning to remigrate X11 support to primarily use Sun X11
libraries, which means refocusing our efforts on libraries directly under
/opt/csw/lib.

We apologise for any difficulties this may cause you.
In extreme cases, we remind you that there ARE older versions of packages
kept at http://csw.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/oldpkgs/ , amoung other
places, if you find yourself in need of an older package in an emergency.

Thank you for your patience. Please know that we are working hard for the
end result of a more up to date, and also better performing, X11 experience
for you, our users :-)
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Dagobert Michelsen | 28 May 19:30
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Update to libsigc++

Dear users,

we are currently working on rtorrent which requires an updated libsigc+ 
+.
There have been three packages in the past:

   libsigc++          CSWsigc++          contained 1.2.5
   libsigc++_rt       CSWlibsigc++rt     contained 2.2.3
   libsigc++_devel    CSWlibsigc++devel  contained 2.2.3

To clean this up there have been the following changes:

- Remove libsigc++rt as libraries usually don't have runtime-packages
- Update libsigc++ to 2.2.7 and change the package name to CSWlibsigc++.
- Make the new package CSWlibsigc++ incompatible to the existing  
CSWsigc++
- Update libsigc++_devel to 2.2.7

Additionally, there have been a number of libraries which depended on
the previous packages, but which were not used from other packages  
within
the CSW distribution. These packages have been removed from the catalog
and may be re-added if they will be needed again:

- CSWgtkmm2
- CSWgtkmmrt
- CSWglibmmrt
- CSWglibmmdevel

Best regards
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Peter Bonivart | 25 Mar 20:13
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Perl 5.10.1 released

After a long project we have released Perl 5.10.1.

More than 100 packages needed to be rebuilt together with 5.10.1 to be
compatible with it. Many of those were at the same time upgraded to
the latest version available.

Here's a complete list of the updated packages:

ap2_modapreq2
ap2_modperl
irssi
libapreq2
libapreq2_devel
mod_perl
mrtg
netsnmp
netsnmp_py
perl
perldoc
pidgin
pm_apachereq
pm_apreq2
pm_archivetar
pm_berkeleydb
pm_bitvec
pm_butils
pm_cairo
pm_carpclan
pm_clone
pm_compressbzip2
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Dagobert Michelsen | 19 Jan 20:28
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Change of catalog name for Curl

Dear users,

the catalog names for the Curl packages have been adjusted to
conform to the OpenCSW standard. That is:

* CSWcurlrt
   - Old catalog name: curlrt
   - New catalog name: curl_rt

* CSWcurldevel
   - Old catalog name: curldevel
   - New catalog name: curl_devel

Please note that this only affects new installation with pkg-get and
pkgutil as the package name used for dependencies is not affected.

Kind regards

   -- Dagobert
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