Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 18:41:15 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46953 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201507121841.t6CIfFKd060564@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Sun Jul 12 18:41:14 2015 New Revision: 46953 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46953 Log: Add Sevan Janiyan <venture37@geeklan.co.uk>'s report on pkgsrc. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Sun Jul 12 11:28:44 2015 (r46952) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Sun Jul 12 18:41:14 2015 (r46953) @@ -87,8 +87,10 @@ <title>New Documentation Committers</title> <contact> - <person>&os; Documentation Engineering Team</person> - <email>doceng@FreeBSD.org</email> + <person> + <name>&os; Documentation Engineering Team</name> + <email>doceng@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> </contact> <links> @@ -119,8 +121,10 @@ <title>Documentation Working Group at BSDCan</title> <contact> - <person>&os; Documentation Team</person> - <email>freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org</email> + <person> + <name>&os; Documentation Team</name> + <email>freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> </contact> <links> @@ -187,4 +191,61 @@ </help> </project> + <project cat='misc'> + <title>&os; Support in <tt>pkgsrc</tt></title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Sevan</given> + <common>Janiyan</common> + </name> + <email>venture37@geeklan.co.uk</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://www.pkgsrc.org">pkgsrc home page</url> + <url href="http://bulktracker.appspot.com">BulkTracker - Track bulk build status</url> + <url href="https://www.geeklan.co.uk/?tag=pkgsrc">My blog posts on pkgsrc</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p><tt>pkgsrc</tt> is a fork of &os; ports from the NetBSD + project with a focus on portability and multi platform + support. At present, pkgsrc supports building packages on 23 + different platforms from a single tree, including &os;</p> + + <p>While <tt>pkgsrc</tt> is not a replacement for ports in most + use cases, it holds a unique position in mixed platform + environments where software ideally needs to be the same + version across the board and should built in a consistent + manner, saving the user from having to resort to manually + building programs or re-implementing a mechanism to do so.</p> + + <p>With the recent + <a href="http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2015/07/06/msg021778.html">2015Q2 release</a> + earlier this month, it is now possible to generate over 14000 + packages on FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE (up from 12800 last + quarter).</p> + + <p>Work is in progress to add + <a href="https://vimeo.com/132766052">pkgng support to pkgsrc.</a></p> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Improve platform support to skip libusb on &os; where + libusb is bundled in base. This is causing the biggest + breakage at the moment.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Expand the effort to -STABLE and -CURRENT branches and, if + possible, architectures other than AMD64. Shell access + welcome (without privilege is sufficient).</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> + </report>
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