From owner-freebsd-announce Sun May 11 02:53:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA20700 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Sun, 11 May 1997 02:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de (bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.63.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA20695 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 02:53:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from campa.panke.de (anonymous229.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.229]) by bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA24938 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 11:53:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id LAA00768; Sun, 11 May 1997 11:53:26 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 11:53:26 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199705110953.LAA00768@campa.panke.de> From: Wolfram Schneider To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: New ports added last two weeks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Main Category devel ================================================== p5-Date-Manip-5.10 perl5 module containing date manipulation routines Maintained by: jfitz@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: perl5 Requires: perl-5.003 p5-ExtUtils-Embed-1.12 utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications Maintained by: jfitz@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: perl-5.003 xmake-1.01 A powerful make utility Maintained by: dlowe@saturn5.com Main Category games ================================================== dontspace-1.2 A solitaire game for X11 modeled after Free Space. Maintained by: johnh@isi.edu klondike-1.8 A solitaire game for X11. Maintained by: johnh@isi.edu netris-0.4 A network head to head version of T*tris. Maintained by: desmo@bandwidth.org Main Category graphics ================================================== giflib-2.3 Tools and library routines for working with GIF images. Maintained by: tg@FreeBSD.ORG Main Category korean ================================================== kr-hcode-2.1.2 Hangul code conversion utility Maintained by: junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr kr-helvis-1.8h2- A clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor, supporting Hangul. Maintained by: junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr Also listed in: editors kr-hmconv-1.0p3 Hangul code conversion utility for E-mail Maintained by: junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr Also listed in: mail kr-nhpf-1.42 Hangul Printing Filter for Netscape with embedded font Maintained by: junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr Also listed in: www Main Category lang ================================================== eperl-2.1.1 Embedded Perl 5 Language Maintained by: rse@engelschall.com Also listed in: www perl5 Requires: perl-5.003 Main Category math ================================================== numpy-1.0b3 The Numeric Extension to Python Maintained by: tg@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: lapack-2.0, python-1.4, ranlib-1.0, tix-4.1.0, tk-4.1 Main Category net ================================================== ratoolset-3.5.2 a suite of policy analysis tools Maintained by: jfitz@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: tk-4.1 Main Category security ================================================== swatch-2.2 The Simple WATCHer and filter Maintained by: jfitz@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: sysutils Main Category sysutils ================================================== cd-write-1.1 A X11 based CD-burner Maintained by: jmz@FreeBSD.org Requires: tix-4.1.0, tk-4.1 star-1.0 unique standard tape archiver with many enhancements Maintained by: andreas@FreeBSD.org Requires: gmake-3.75 Main Category www ================================================== p5-Apache-0.98 Embeds a Perl interpreter in the Apache server Maintained by: jfitz@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: perl5 Requires: p5-CGI.pm-2.35, p5-ExtUtils-Embed-1.12, perl-5.003 p5-CGI.pm-2.35 a simple Common Gateway Interface class for perl5 Maintained by: jfitz@FreeBSD.ORG Also listed in: perl5 Requires: perl-5.003 Main Category x11 ================================================== pythonqt-0.1.2 A set of Python bindings for Qt. Maintained by: tg@FreeBSD.ORG Requires: gmake-3.75, python-1.4, qt-1.2, tix-4.1.0, tk-4.1 _______________________________________________________________ This information was produced at 1997/05/11 09:49 UTC by http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/cgi/ports.cgi -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/ From owner-freebsd-announce Mon May 12 04:40:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA14410 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 04:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA14380; Mon, 12 May 1997 04:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id EAA03345; Mon, 12 May 1997 04:40:41 -0700 (PDT) To: announce@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: current.freebsd.org now "open for business." Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 04:40:41 -0700 Message-ID: <3341.863437241@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The 3.0-current daily SNAPshot server is now in operation and cranking out SNAPshots every 24 hours. The full URL for the SNAPshot area is: ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ And, unlike releng22.freebsd.org, previous SNAPshots will be kept around for at least a week or two. Therefore, if the users of a given SNAPshot find it especially installable and "stable" (I.E. it doesn't fall over right away), they should probably let me know so that I will know to copy it over to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD and, perhaps, also put it onto a SNAPshot CDROM (though no more often than every 3 months or so). I will, in fact, *rely* on user feedback for gauging this since there's really no other way to know with a SNAPshot given the very limited QA and testing which goes into one. :-) Anyway, have at it folks, and thanks again to ACC TelEnterprises & James FitzGibbon for making the resources available to do this! Jordan From owner-freebsd-announce Fri May 16 21:45:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA07288 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Fri, 16 May 1997 21:45:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA07283 for ; Fri, 16 May 1997 21:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA21567 for ; Fri, 16 May 1997 21:46:20 -0700 (PDT) To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: Announcing FreeBSD 2.2.2 - "The stealth release" Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 21:46:20 -0700 Message-ID: <21563.863844380@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk So called because it has been done without much fanfare or prior announcement. There are several reasons for this: 1. The RELENG_2_2 branch, through the services of releng22.freebsd.org, has gotten quite a bit more testing than we usually enjoy, and it was therefore not quite so necessary to do the extended ALPHA, BETA and such releases this time. The entire branch is now, in effect, an extended, ongoing BETA since we've been making only relatively small changes to it. 2. Everytime I announce an impending release, the whole tree generally breaks for about a week while everyone rushes to get last-minute fixes in which weren't quite so important before but now, suddenly, are on the "critical" list. ;) Due to other time pressures, I didn't have a week to tap my feet and wait for the tree to get fixed again, so I decided to just do it. 3. A number of instability problems with 2.2.1 (most notably in the AHC driver) were causing commercial users to gravitate towards the 2.2-RELENG releases anyway, and this at least gives us a more functional "full release" to direct such people to now. It is available, as usual, from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD and its mirrors. A note for Walnut Creek CDROM customers: This release will also be the basis for the upcoming "FreeBSD Desktop/Pro" product, a release which includes bundled software from Xi Graphics, Inc. for desktop users (AcceleratedX 3.1 and CDE 1.1). The price on this is still TBD, and a follow-up announcement will be made when this product is actually ready to ship, clarifying such details. Following a short interval to allow Satoshi & Co. to update the packages collection for 2.2.2, this will also be released on CDROM as a "standard" release, replacing the current 2.2.1 product. And now, the usual release notes: RELEASE NOTES FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE o For information about the layout of the release directory, see the ABOUT.TXT file. o For installation instructions, see the INSTALL.TXT and HARDWARE.TXT files. For the most up-to-date releases along the RELENG_2_2 branch (which is now proceeding onwards toward release 2.2.5), please install from: ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ 0. What's new since 2.2.1 ------------------------- A number of bugs in the Adaptec 294x/394x (AHC) driver were fixed which could cause instability on heavily loaded systems. NFSv3 is now the default, with fall-back to NFSv2 occuring as necessary. An lchown() system call has been added for changing the ownership of symlinks. Login classes added for setting default user limits (see login.conf(5)). ftpd now supports virtual FTP hosting. Numerous security fixes (buffer overflows and other potential exploits fixed). Better build support for C++ libraries added. Support for the GLOBAL text/HTML source tag system added (man global). /etc/sysconfig now replaced by /etc/rc.conf - a more concise customization file with more knobs added. Other things in /etc were also neatened up, /etc/netstart being replaced with /etc/rc.network User-mode ppp updated with various fixes and enhancements from 3.0-current. Texinfo documentation mechanisms cleaned up in source tree. 1. What's new since 2.1.7 ------------------------- Lots of installation bugs fixed, more pc98 changes synchronized, geeze, what else? gdb 4.16 has been merged from -current, most of the third-party source now lives under /usr/src/contrib. Updated support for the DEC DEFPA/DEFEA FDDI hardware. The old ``HAVE_FPU'' Makefile option is now finally gone, the selection between the math library using the floating point emulator, and the version using the co-processor is now fully automatic. This will speed up floating-point using programs on sites that didn't like to recompile their `libm' previously. Javier Martin Rueda's `ex' driver has been merged, bringing support for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 network cards. The Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B now works in full-duplex mode. The `de' driver now recognizes cards using the DE21140A chip, like the popular SMC9332BDT (10/100 Mbit/s) one. There's now a workaround for the brokenness of the frequently used CMD640 PCI IDE chip in the sources, albeit still disabled by default in 2.2. The number of EISA slots to probe is now a fully supported option, including the ability to save the value from a UserConfig session with dset(8). This helps owners of HP NetServer LC machines to install the system on their hardware. Support for the SDL RISCom N2pci sync serial card. Support for Cyclades Cyclom-Y (multi-port async serial) PCI adaptors as well as multiple controllers and the 32-Y (if you are currently using the Cyclades serial adapter, you should re-make your /dev entries and remove the old ones). Updated support for ethernet adaptors which use the DEC DC21X4X chipset. Update to gcc 2.7.2.1 & add support for weak symbols. Many things moved/brought into /usr/src/contrib, updating and cleaning up the source tree accordingly. Support for compiled-in shared library ld paths. Update sgmlfmt to `instant'. Support for SNMP-style interface MIBs, including full RFC 1650-compliant MIBs for the `de' (DEC 21x4x) and `ed' (SMC/WD/Novell) drivers. /stand/sysinstall moved even more towards becoming a more general system management tool. You can actually add a new, from-scratch formatted disk with it now, from partition label to filesystem creation (though it still doesn't modify your /etc/fstab file to make it permanent). The syscons and psm drivers now have a new underlying shared keyboard driver, eliminating many of the previously existing problems with their mutual interaction. Syscons now supports cut & paste in textmode using the moused(8) utility. 2.2 is the first release that includes full CD-R support for the Plasmon RF41xx, HP4020i, HP6020i, and Philips CDD2000 drives. The driver is still under development (in particular to extend its usability for other devices), but it has been proved to be stable by now. Support for NFSv3 clients and servers went into the 2.2 sources shortly after branching off the 2.0.5/2.1.X tree. There are also other options available with NFS, like the ability to turn an NFSv2 server into asynchronous write mode (which is in violation of the specs, but has precedents e.g. in SGI Irix). Poul-Henning Kamp's phkmalloc replaced the old and blatant BSD malloc implementation. This usually saves a lot of virtual memory for the clients, and offers some neat features like aborting the program on detected malloc abuses, or filling the malloced and/or freed area with junk in order to detect semantical problems in programs that use malloc. The `netatalk' implementation of AppleTalk has been integrated into the sources, most of the integration work courtesy Whistle Communic- ations Corp. The mount option `async' allows asynchronous metadata updates on UFS file systems, something that is the default e.g. on Linux' ext2fs. This speeds up many i-node intensive filesystem operations (like rm -r) at the cost of an increased risk in case of a system crash. The installation itself makes use of this feature, and could be drastically accelerated by this. (A bindist-only installation from a SCSI CD-ROM can now complete in less than 5 minutes on a fast machine!) The ATAPI CD-ROM support is now reported to work for quite an impressive number of drives. In other words, all the drives that basically adhere to the ATAPI standard are likely to work. There are many new drivers available in the kernel, too many to keep them in mind. Tekram supplied a driver for their DC390 and DC390T controllers. These controllers are based on the AMD 53c974, and the driver is also able to handle other SCSI controllers based on that chip. Of course, with Tekram being generous enough to support the FreeBSD project with their driver, we'd like to encourage you to buy their product. The `ed' and `lnc' drivers now support auto-config- uration for the respective PCI ethernet cards, including many NE2000 clones and the AMD PCnet chips. The SDL RISCom N2 support is new, as well as the PCI version of the Cyclades driver. The Linux emulation is now fully functional, including ELF support. To make its use easier, there are even ports for the required shared libraries, and for the Slackware development environment. Along the same lines, the SysV COFF emulation (aka. SCO emulation) is reported to be working well now. FreeBSD also supports native ELF binaries, although it hasn't been decided yet whether, when, and how we might use this as the default binary format some day. A `brandelf' utility has been added to allow `branding' of non-shared linked ELF binaries where the kernel cannot guess which image activator (FreeBSD, Linux, maybe SysV some day) should be used. This works around one major flaw in the ELF object format, the missing field to mark the ABI it belongs to. Support for APM BIOSes is now in a much better shape. The manual section 9 has been started, describing `official' kernel programming interfaces. We are still seeking volunteers to document interfaces here! The kernel configuration option handling has been largely moved away from the old -D Makefile kludges, towards a system of "opt_foo.h" kernel include files, allowing Makefile dependencies to work again. We expect the old hack that blows the entire compile directory away on each run of config(8) to go away anytime soon. Unless you're changing weird options, you might now consider using the -n option to config(8), or setting the env variable NO_CONFIG_CLOBBER, if CPU time is costly for you. See also the comments in the handbook about how it works. 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the 386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is also provided. What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet received confirmation of this. 2.1. Disk Controllers --------------------- WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) IDE ATA Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices) Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI controllers. Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers. Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards. ** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes, CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them. Check your system/board documentation for more details. Buslogic 545S & 545c Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller. Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI controllers: ASUS SC-200 Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants) NCR cards (all) Symbios cards (all) Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F Tyan S1365 Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the AMD 53c974 as well). NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode. UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers. Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers. Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. WD7000 SCSI controller. With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives. The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: (cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) (mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models) (matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary interface (562/563 models) (scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models) (wcd) ATAPI IDE interface (experimental and should be considered ALPHA quality!). 2.2. Ethernet cards ------------------- Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974) SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported. DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422) DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc) DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A). Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability) Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) Isolink 4110 (8 bit) Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface. 3Com 3C501 cards 3Com 3C503 Etherlink II 3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+ 3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP 3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905 PCI and EISA (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL Toshiba ethernet cards PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also supported. Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any takers? 2.3. Misc --------- AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ. ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ. ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial. Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported) Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported) Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board. STB 4 port card using shared IRQ. SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board. SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards. Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64, ONboard 4/16 and Brumby. Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. Connectix QuickCam Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber Cortex1 frame grabber HP4020i, Philips CDD2000 and PLASMON WORM (CDR) drives. PS/2 mice Standard PC Joystick X-10 power controllers GPIB and Transputer drivers. Genius and Mustek hand scanners. FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus. 3. Obtaining FreeBSD -------------------- You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways: 3.1. FTP/Mail ------------- You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from `ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site. For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome! Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to become an official mirror site. If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to `ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism. Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute LAST resort! 3.2. CDROM ---------- FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE and 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from: Walnut Creek CDROM 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D Concord CA 94520 1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax) Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com. Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog. Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription. FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP CDs are $29.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription (-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate). With a subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released. Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel your subscription at any time without further obligation. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax. Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an unconditional return policy. 4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code. ----------------------------------------------------------- Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find (preferably with a fix attached, if you can!). The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command or use the CGI script at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html. Bug reports will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to watch out for. If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to submit a bug report, you can try to send it to: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move even onto a totally different system. We much prefer if you could use this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem reports. However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether the problem might have already been fixed since. Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! To contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send mail to: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant* amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may find it preferable to subscribe instead to: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org All but the freebsd-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword `help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo and ask about them! 5. Acknowledgements ------------------- FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very hard to bring you this release. For a complete list of FreeBSD project staffers, please see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/staff.html or, if you've loaded the doc distribution: file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers: Coranth Gryphon Dave Rivers Kaleb S. Keithley Terry Lambert David Dawes Don Lewis Special mention to: Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support) this release would never have been possible. Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM drive. Chuck Robey for his donation of a floppy tape streamer for testing. Larry Altneu and Wilko Bulte for providing us with Wangtek and Archive QIC-02 tape drives for testing and driver hacking. CalWeb Internet Services for the loan of a P6/200 machine for speedy package building. Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support. And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible. We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD! The FreeBSD Project From owner-freebsd-announce Sat May 17 17:37:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA21482 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Sat, 17 May 1997 17:37:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA21477 for ; Sat, 17 May 1997 17:37:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10195 for ; Sat, 17 May 1997 17:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705180037.RAA10195@austin.polstra.com> To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Subject: CVSup 15.0 is now available Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 17:37:03 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Announcing CVSup 15.0 --------------------- Release 15.0 of CVSup, the CVS-aware network distribution system, is now available. Where to Get CVSup ------------------ CVSup is free software. It is available from the following FTP sites: ftp://hub.freebsd.org/pub/CVSup/ (California) ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/FreeBSD/CVSup/ (Germany) ftp://ftp.polstra.com/pub/FreeBSD/CVSup/ (slow; avoid if possible) Full sources as well as FreeBSD binaries are available: cvsup-bin-15.0.tar.gz FreeBSD static binaries for the client + GUI cvsup.nogui-bin-15.0.tar.gz FreeBSD static binaries for the client (no GUI) cvsupd-bin-15.0.tar.gz FreeBSD static binaries for the server cvsup-15.0.tar.gz Sources ** MD5 signatures for these files are: MD5 (cvsup-bin-15.0.tar.gz) = 6456b1ec9d54c588ea02899a3292603c MD5 (cvsup.nogui-bin-15.0.tar.gz) = 89d2e399d812f1969da8ab3c810fab7b MD5 (cvsupd-bin-15.0.tar.gz) = 1578a568c762e1975676bf02a38c50cc MD5 (cvsup-15.0.tar.gz) = 3f9cb6e0267be19d8e0627c85e6edeb4 An updated port will appear in the FreeBSD ports and packages collections soon: Port: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-current/net/cvsup/ Package: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-current/net/cvsup-15.0.tgz ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2/net/cvsup-15.0.tgz The FreeBSD package now depends only on the "modula-3-lib" package, a subset of the Modula-3 installation consisting of only the shared libraries. Because of this, you can now install and use the "cvsup" package in a reasonable amount of disk space. The package is much smaller than the statically linked binary distribution, so updates to new versions of CVSup should be more convenient now. The package is the recommended distribution for binary-only users. The static binary distributions may be phased out soon. If you want SOCKS support, you must also install the "modula-3-socks" port or package: Port: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-current/lang/modula-3-socks/ Package: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-current/lang/modula-3-socks-1.0.tgz ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2/lang/modula-3-socks-1.0.tgz SOCKS is supported only under FreeBSD, and only with dynamically linked executables. The static binary distributions do not support SOCKS. ** If you wish to build CVSup from the sources, be sure to read the discussion further on in this announcement. Compatibility with Previous Releases ------------------------------------ This release is backward-compatible with release 14.0, except for a couple of minor differences in the client: * On the client, symbolic links are no longer followed inside a collection. (If the prefix is a symbolic link, it is followed _to_ the collection.) This might affect some users who mirror the FreeBSD "gnats" collection. This collection typically uses a prefix of "home", and all updated files are in the subtree "gnats". It is important that "gnats" be a true subdirectory of the prefix, and not a symbolic link to a directory. In other words, adjust your prefix if necessary, so that it designates the true parent directory of your "gnats" tree. (In actuality, the client is more tolerant than this discussion implies. It recognizes the problematic situations and does the right thing, emitting only a warning.) * The default verbosity level when the GUI is not used has been changed from "-L 0" to "-L 1". * The old "-d" and "-D" command line options no longer exist. I doubt that anybody used them anyway. * There is a new "-d delLimit" option with which you can specify a limit on the number of files the client will delete before it decides something is seriously wrong and quits. [Note that the reuse of "-d" shouldn't cause undetected problems, because the old version accepted no arguments while the new version requires a numeric argument.] There are a couple of very minor compatibility issues which could affect a few users upgrading from a release prior to 14.0. Clients: The default for the "base" directory has changed from "/usr" to "/usr/local/etc/cvsup". Practically everybody specifies the base explicitly in their supfiles, so this change will have no impact for most people. If you have been using the default value, you will need to add a line "*default base=/home" to your supfile, or specify "-b /home" on the cvsup command line. Servers: The "hostbase" is no longer taken from the client's supfile. It is now controlled on the server host. On the FreeBSD project, "hostbase=/home" was always used in the past. People operating servers will need to specify "-b /home" on the cvsupd command line to get the same effect. Alternatively, move your server configuration files from "/home" to the new default location, "/usr/local/etc/cvsup". (As before, most of the configuration files appear under a subdirectory named "sup".) What Has Changed Since the Previous Release? -------------------------------------------- Notable changes in release 15.0: Added the ability to update only selected files from a collection, by specifying file name patterns with a new "-i " command line option on the client. The GUI also has a type-in field where patterns can be entered, separated by spaces. Added the ability to update all kinds of files, including symbolic links, hard links, and device nodes. Added support for mirroring directories exactly. I.e., empty directories on the server are now preserved on the client. Added the ability to preseve all file attributes, including owner, group, modes, and flags. This is under control of a new "preserve" keyword in the supfile. Changed the client's default verbosity level from "-L 0" to "-L 1". Added support for the "symlink" and "rsymlink" directives on the server, to control which symbolic links are followed and which are updated as links. Added support for specifying patterns and/or non-directory files in the server's "upgrade" and "always" directives. Added support for multiple patterns on the server's "upgrade", "always", and "omitany" directives, as well as on the new "symlink" and "rsymlink" directives. Enhanced server's "-c" option to accept a colon-separated list of directories for searching for collections, so that the collections no longer all need to be in the same place. Eliminated the client's "-d" and "-D" command line options. They were never very useful, and I had other purposes in mind for those letters. (See the next item.) Added a new "-d delLimit" option for specifying the maximum number of files that may be deleted by the client before it decides that something is seriously wrong. The "-d" conflicts with older versions' uses of "-d". But there should be little confusion, because the new version requires a numeric argument while the old one accepted no arguments. Significantly sped up the processing of the client's "checkouts" file. This eliminates a long delay that had been observed between updating the last collection and shutting down. Added support for the non-standard RCS keyword "CVSHeader". It expands the same as "Header", except that the pathname comes out as relative to the prefix rather than as absolute. Assuming the prefix is the root of the CVS repository, this gives relative pathnames within the repository. Added support for defining aliases for existing RCS keywords, and for enabling and disabling the recognition of individual keywords. This is controlled on a repository-wide basis by directives in a file "/CVSROOT/options" on the server. Added checking of file sizes in addition to modtimes during the initial culling phase. This adds some network traffic, but it also adds a degree of safety. It doesn't seem to slow things down much for typical updates. Added the "fnmatch" sources to the distribution, so that CVSup can be built on platforms that lack a full-featured version of it. The static binaries for FreeBSD now include a distribution of the client built without the GUI. It is much smaller, and may be preferred by people who never use the GUI. Notable changes in release 14.1.4 (a beta release): Added an inactivity timeout to the client, enabled only in non-GUI mode. If 15 minutes pass without any network I/O, the update is terminated with a transient error (so that it will be retried). This is useful when the client is run from cron. Added a new "-r maxRetries" command line option for the client, to cause it to give up after the specified number of retries. This is a generalization of the old "-1" option, which is equivalent to "-r 0". Added checking to ensure that the client-side "checkouts*" file is sorted properly. CVSup always keeps this file in sorted order. But if it gets corrupted such that it is no longer sorted, mass deletions can result. This actually happened on a system that had faulty RAM. A 1-bit error changed a "/" to something else. Added checksumming and fixups for all kinds of file updates. Formerly, this was done only for updates that modified (edited) existing files. Now, even files that are sent verbatim are checked. Fixed a bug in searching for the revision in effect on a certain date. Example: Searching on the trunk. The head is 2.2. The selected revision is 1.7. Because the first components were different, the code erroneously considered the file to be dead on the given date. The fix treats the trunk as a special case. The bug affected just a few files, and only when checkout mode was used on the main branch with "date=yy.mm.dd.hh.mm.ss". Added support for the "execute" keyword, for executing server-specified commands on the client when certain files are updated. Added new client options "-e" and "-E", to enable and disable the "execute" feature. Fixed the server's logging so that it now works to specify "-l /dev/stdout" on the command line. Added the necessary "libmd" sources to the distribution, so it is no longer necessary to get them separately and install them. Changed the server so that it will let you run it as root again. What Is CVSup? -------------- CVSup is a software package for distributing and updating collections of files across a network. CVSup is specifically tailored to distributing CVS repositories. By taking advantage of the special properties of the files contained in CVS repositories, CVSup is able to perform updates much faster than traditional systems. It is especially valuable for people with slow Internet connections. CVSup parses and understands the RCS files making up a CVS repository. When updates occur, CVSup extracts new deltas directly from the RCS files on the server and edits them into the client's RCS files. Likewise, CVSup notes the addition of new symbolic tags to the files on the server and sends only the new tags to the client. CVSup is able to merge new deltas and tags from the server with deltas and tags added locally on the client machine. This makes it possible for the client to check local modifications into his repository without their being obliterated by subsequent updates from the server. Note: Although this feature is fully implemented in CVSup, it will probably not be practical to use it until some small changes have been made to CVS. In addition to distributing the RCS files themselves, CVSup is able to distribute specific checked-out versions. The client can specify a symbolic tag, a date, or both and CVSup will extract the appropriate versions from the server's CVS repository. Checked-out versions do not need to be stored on the server since CVSup can extract any version directly from the CVS repository. If the client has an existing checked-out tree, CVSup will apply the appropriate edits to update the tree or transform it into the requested version. Only the differences between the existing version and the desired version are sent across the network. To update non-RCS files, CVSup uses the highly efficient rsync algorithm, developed by Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras. CVSup uses lightweight processes (threads) to implement a streaming protocol across the network. This completely eliminates the delays associated with the lock-step, request-reply form of communication used by many existing protocols, such as sup and NNTP. Information is transferred at the full available speed of the network in both directions at once. Network latency and server response delays are rendered practically irrelevant. CVSup uses the "zlib" compression package to optionally compress all communications. This provides an additional 65-75% compression, on top of the diff-based compression already built into CVSup. For efficiency, all processing is built into the CVSup package itself. Neither the client nor the server executes any other programs. For further information about how CVSup works, see the "Blurb" document in the CVSup distribution. Using CVSup to Maintain FreeBSD Sources --------------------------------------- CVSup servers are currently running at the following FreeBSD mirror sites: USA: cvsup.freebsd.org cvsup2.freebsd.org Argentina: cvsup.ar.freebsd.org Australia: cvsup.au.freebsd.org Germany: cvsup.de.freebsd.org Japan: cvsup.jp.freebsd.org Netherlands: cvsup.nl.freebsd.org Norway: cvsup.no.freebsd.org South Africa: cvsup.za.freebsd.org Taiwan: sup.tw.freebsd.org Using CVSup, you can easily receive or update any of the standard FreeBSD source releases, namely, "cvs", "current", and "stable". The manual page for cvsup(1) describes how to do that. For more detailed instructions, see the section on CVSup in the FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html Building CVSup from the Sources ------------------------------- CVSup is written in Modula-3, a modern, compiled, object-oriented language. Modula-3 integrates threads, exceptions, and garbage collection, providing an ideal vehicle for this sort of application. Without Modula-3, CVSup would almost certainly not exist today. If you wish to build CVSup from the sources, you will first need to install the free Modula-3 compiler and runtime libraries from DEC SRC. A port is available in the FreeBSD ports collection, in "lang/modula-3". The corresponding package is, of course, available in the packages collection. You will also need version 1.0.4 or later of the "zlib" library. In FreeBSD-2.1.6 and later releases, this library has been incorporated into the system sources, in "src/lib/libz". Prior to that, a FreeBSD port was available in "devel/libz" of the FreeBSD ports collection. For other sources of this library, see the "Install" file. Do not try to use versions earlier than 1.0.4. Portability Issues ------------------ I intend for CVSup to be portable to most POSIX systems. The previous release has been run on a number of different platforms, including FreeBSD, Linux, and DEC OSF/1 ALPHA. The current release has only been tested under FreeBSD versions 2.1 and later; however, I attempted not to introduce any new portability problems. Anybody who succeeds in porting CVSup to other systems is encouraged to send his changes to . As long as the changes are reasonably palatable, they will be incorporated into future CVSup releases. CVSup uses several POSIX-specific functions which may make it more of an effort to port the package to non-POSIX systems such as Win32. These functions include mmap, fork, syslog, stat, and chmod, among others. Status of this Release ---------------------- CVSup has seen heavy use and has been quite stable for months. Like all software, though, it is not perfect. Please be prepared to find bugs -- without a doubt, there are some. Please report bugs to . -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth