Jörg's NetBSD blog

A blog about NetBSD, pkgsrc and the on-going development.

• Git repositories on github 1 year, 10 months ago

  Checkout https://github.com/jsonn/src and https://github.com/jsonn/pkgsrc!

• Fossil repositories moved and updated, git in progress. 1 year, 11 months ago

  New server with better connection for the fossil repositories, a mirror and initial addition of git support

• May update for cvs2fossil 2 years, 1 month ago

  Bug fix release for cvs2fossil to get stable conversion for pkgsrc

• Update on fossil conversion 2 years, 4 months ago

  In the two month since the last update, the Fossil conversion utility has seen quite a number of improvements.
  A public mirror of the repository conversion is provided.

• Steps to USE_DESTDIR=yes as default 3 years, 3 months ago

  What is left before USE_DESTDIR=yes can be the default for everyone?

• make install 3 years, 3 months ago

  A new name for a build phase, a new behavior for DESTDIR users and some black magic.

• Avoid permanent package rebuilds 3 years, 3 months ago

  pbulk includes logic to avoid rebuilding packages that haven't changed based on the RCS ID ($NetBSD$).
  A look at some problem cases.

• Mysterious build failures 3 years, 4 months ago

  After the DESTDIR changes, emulators/handy_sdl started to fail in the bulk builds, even though it works fine when build by hand. A failure analysis.

• New year cleanup 3 years, 4 months ago

  20 pages of changes on http://pkgsrc.se:

  • new Python and PostgreSQL default version
  • ancient Java and PHP 4

• USE_DESTDIR and PKG_DEVELOPER 3 years, 4 months ago

  PKG_DEVELOPER now implies USE_DESTDIR=yes by default.
  This helps to catch bugs and simplifies updates.

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