release can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.30/ .
This release brings initial PackageKit support, Upower (replaces power
management part of hal), cuse4bsd integration with HAL and cheese, and a
faster Evolution.
Sadly GNOME 2.30.x will be the last release with FreeBSD 6.X support. This
will also be the last of the 2.x releases. The next release will be the
highly-anticipated GNOME 3.0 which will bring with it a new UI experience.
Currently, there are a few bugs with GNOME 2.30 that may be of note for our
users. Be sure to consult the UPGRADING note or the 2.30 upgrade FAQ at
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq230.html for specific upgrading
instructions, and the up-to-date list of known issues.
This release features commits by avl, ahze, bland, marcus, mezz, and myself.
The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like to thank Anders F Bjorklund for doing the
initual packagekit porting.
And the following contributors & testers for there help with this release:
Eric L. Chen
Vladimir Grebenschikov
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
DomiX
walder
crsd
Kevin Oberman
Michal Varga
Pavel Plesov
Bapt
kevin
and ITetcu for two exp-run
PR: ports/143852
ports/145347
ports/144980
ports/145830
ports/145511
commands like mv, tren is particularly well suited for renaming
batches of files and/or directories with a single command line
invocation. tren eliminates the tedium of having to script simpler
tools to provide higher-level renaming capabilities.
WWW: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tren/
PR: ports/146000
Submitted by: Tim Daneliuk <tren@tundraware.com>
Approved by: pgj (mentor)
intended for general read-only filesystem use, for archival use (i.e.
in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in constrained block
device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is
needed. The filesystem is currently stable, and has been tested on
PowerPC, i586, Sparc and ARM architectures.
squashfs-tools are the set of tools to manipulate squashfs images.
WWW: http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/
PR: ports/145914
Submitted by: Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava at gmail.com>
Approved by: tabthorpe (mentor)
on running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory) in a portable
way by using Python, implementing many functionalities offered by tools
like ps, top and Windows task manager.
WWW: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/
PR: ports/146279
Submitted by: Ju Pengfei <jupengfei@gmail.com>
information about your system's CPU. This includes not
only technical data such as processor type, but also
CPU statistics, such as load average information.
It is part of a library of a set libraries for various
system administration tasks, such as gathering
information about users, processes, your CPU, the
filesystem, and so on.
WWW: http://rubyforge.org/projects/sysutils
WWW: http://sysutils.rubyforge.org/
PR: ports/146057
Submitted by: Eric Freeman <freebsdports at chillibear.com>
it's primary purpose is to provide node data to Chef.
Ohai will print out a JSON data blob for all the known data about your system.
When used with Chef, that data is reported back via node attributes.
WWW: http://wiki.opscode.com/display/ohai/Home
PR: ports/145850
Submitted by: Renaud Chaput <renchap at cocoa-x.com>
versions of FreeBSD now contain /etc/rc.subr in the base. Version
1.636 of bsd.port.mk removed support for the RC_SUBR and RC_SUBR_SUFFIX
macros, so this is the last of the old infrastructure to go.
R C D here now
No longer is the N G
Services rejoice
moosefs client is any number of machines using mfsmount process
to communicate with the managing server (to receive and modify
file metadata) and with chunkservers (to exchange actual file
data).
WWW: http://www.moosefs.org/
Submitted by: Chifeng Qu <chifeng@gmail.com> (via Email)
mfschunkserver is any number of commodity servers storing files
data and synchronizing it among themselves (if a certain file
is supposed to exist in more than one copy).
WWW: http://www.moosefs.org/
Submitted by: Chifeng Qu <chifeng@gmail.com> (via Email)
mfsmaster is a single machine managing the whole filesystem,
storing metadata for every file (information on size,
attributes and file location(s), including all information
about non-regular files, i.e. directories, sockets, pipes and
devices).
WWW: http://www.moosefs.org/
Submitted by: Chifeng Qu <chifeng@gmail.com> (via Email)
interfaces to use, command-line, dialog-based, and a QT4 GUI. Warden has
support for backing up an entire jail, installing pre-built packages
(inmates) and more.
WWW: http://www.pcbsd.org/
Approved by: brooks (co-mentor)
and other command-line apps to get & set keys. This program can be used to
easily interact between QT-based GUI's and command-line implementations of
these applications.
WWW: http://www.pcbsd.org/
Approved by: brooks (co-mentor)
providing SunOS-compatible acl(3)/facl(3) functions. Its main purpose
is to make it easier to port software such as Samba, which already supports
SunOS ACL API.
on a genetic algorithm (GA) that tries to fit a collection of items
into as few as possible volumes of a specific size.
For example, the items might be files/directories and the volumes
might be CDs or DVDs.
The task of arranging items in such manner that the number of
required bins is minimized is called Bin Packing, a NP-hard
combinatorial problem for which no deterministic polynomial-time
algorithm is known. Using heuristics, such as GAs, it is usually
possible to approximate -- and often reach -- the best solution for
the problem within a reasonable time.
WWW: http://gaffitter.sourceforge.net
PR: ports/144725
Submitted by: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net>
commands on multiple remote hosts in parallel. Pdsh implements dynamically
loadable modules for extended functionality such as new remote shell services
and remote host selection
PR: ports/144601
Submitted by: Mykola Dzham <i@levsha.me>
Feature safe: yes
a callback, invoked for all files that are 'different' between the
two directories, and for any files that exist only in one or other
directory ('unique' files).
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-DirCompare/
Feature safe: yes
the initial patches and getting me started with this.
Note that munin-main has been renamed to munin-master (see MOVED).
Approved by: portmgr (erwin)
Feature safe: yes
FreeBSD desktop system using any of the mainstream desktop systems.
It automatically installs essential software and configures subsystems
such as HAL, CUPS, etc. for typical use.
WWW: http://personalpages.tds.net/~jwbacon/Ports
PR: ports/143180
Submitted by: Jason Bacon <jwbacon at tds.net>
convert tool. It is derived from dmg2iso v0.2c by vu1tur.
WWW: http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/
PR: ports/143156
Submitted by: Gvozdikov Veniamin <g.veniamin at googlemail.com>
systems. This is useful when using pcntl_fork() to identify running
processes in process list
WWW: http://www.pecl.php.net/package/proctitle/
PR: ports/143014
Submitted by: Florian Smeets <flo at kasimir.com>
checks the state of each configured provider at a configured interval, and, if
it notices that a provider has lost a component, or encounters a problem while
checking a provider's state, it will send an e-mail with details of the
matter--such as what components were lost and which remain, or, in the event of
a problem, what the problem was--to an arbitrary number of recipients, so that
corrective action can be taken (for example, replacing a failed disk).
WWW: http://acm.poly.edu/wiki/GEOM_Watch
-Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu>
PR: ports/142735
Submitted by: Boris Kochergin <spawk at acm.poly.edu>
can be added to UNIX pipes. The filters include:
speed
Measures the speed of the data flowing through the pipe
throttle
Controls the speed of the data flowing through the pipe
rot13
The famous rot13 algorithm
rot47
The not-so-famous rot47 algorithm
tolower
Converts all alphabetic characters to lower case
toupper
Converts all alphabetic characters to upper case
WWW: http://hansmi.ch/software/pipe-magic-tools
over network using rsync and ssh. It supports storing of a given number
of archives in wich files that has not been changed since last backup
will be hard linked to previous archive to save space and bandwidth.
Bontmia is an acromyn of Backup Over Network To Multiple Incremental
Archives wich pretty good sums up its intended use.
WWW: http://kosmos.ttyv0.se/projects/show/bontmia
PR: ports/141772
Submitted by: Henrik Andersen
security/freebsd-update||2009-12-24|Incorporated into base system long ago
sysutils/est||2009-12-24|Incorporated into base system long ago
sysutils/estctrl||2009-12-24|Incorporated into base system long ago
sysutils/freebsd-sha1||2009-12-24|Incorporated into base system long ago
sysutils/freebsd-sha256||2009-12-24|Incorporated into base system long ago
sysutils/abgx360. It allows the user to easily select abgx360 options.
It can output an abgx360 log to a new xterm window, a text file,
or an HTML file.
WWW: http://abgx360.net/
PR: ports/141160
Submitted by: okeeblow <root at cooltrainer.org>
images to help you protect your investment in game media from
damage by accidents or children.
WWW: http://abgx360.net/
PR: ports/141159
Submitted by: okeeblow <root at cooltrainer.org>
from Linux, Solaris & FreeBSD. istatd collects data such as CPU, memory,
network and disk usage and keeps the history. Once connecting from the
iPhone and entering the lock code this data will be sent to the iPhone
and shown in fancy graphs.
WWW: http://code.google.com/p/istatd/
Submitted by: Babak Farrokhi <farrokhi at FreeBSD.org>
release can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/ .
Officially, this is mostly a polishing release in preparation for GNOME 3.0
due in about a year.
On the FreeBSD front, though, a lot went into this release. Major thanks
goes to kwm and avl who did a lot of the porting work for this release.
In particular, kwm brought in Evolution MAPI support for better Microsoft
Exchange integration. Avl made sure that the new gobject introspection
repository ports were nicely compartmentalized so that large dependencies
aren't brought in wholesale.
But, every GNOME team member (ahze, avl, bland, kwm, mezz, and myself)
contributed to this release.
Other major improvements include an updated HAL with better volume
probing code, ufsid integration, and support for volume names containing
spaces (big thanks to J.R. Oldroyd); a new WebKit; updated AbiWord;
an updated Gimp; and a preview of the new GNOME Shell project (thanks to
Pawel Worach).
The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like to that the following additional
contributors to this release whose patches and testing really helped
make it a success:
Andrius Morkunas
Dominique Goncalves
Eric L. Chen
J.R. Oldroyd
Joseph S. Atkinson
Li
Pawel Worach
Romain Tartière
Thomas Vogt
Yasuda Keisuke
Rui Paulo
Martin Wilke
(and an extra shout out to miwi and pav for pointyhat runs)
We would like to send this release out to Alexander Loginov (avl) in
hopes that he feels better soon.
PR: 136676
136967
138872 (obsolete with new epiphany-webkit)
139160
134737
139941
140097
140838
140929
plgadd - Add a new group to LDAP.
plgclean - Check groups setup in LDAP for non-existent users and remove them.
plgmod - Modify a group setup in LDAP.
plgrm - Remove a group from LDAP.
pluadd - Add a user to LDAP.
plumod - Modify a user in LDAP.
plupass - Update the password for a user in LDAP.
plurm - Remove a user from LDAP.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Plugtools/
PR: ports/140133
Submitted by: Zane C, Bowers <vvelox at vvelox.net>
2009-11-03 mail/postfix-gps-devel: Older than main port, no sign of maintainer activity beyond port creation 4+ years ago
2009-10-12 graphics/php4-ffmpeg: development continues only for php5
2009-10-31 net-p2p/nicotine: development stalled years ago, use net-p2p/nicotine-plus instead
2009-11-07 sysutils/rsyslog: Use sysutils/rsyslog3 or sysutils/rsyslog4 instead
2009-11-07 sysutils/rsyslog-gssapi: Use sysutils/rsyslog3 or sysutils/rsyslog4 instead
2009-11-07 sysutils/rsyslog-mysql: Use sysutils/rsyslog3 or sysutils/rsyslog4 instead
2009-11-07 sysutils/rsyslog-pgsql: Use sysutils/rsyslog3 or sysutils/rsyslog4 instead
2009-11-17 misc/kde4-l10n-ta: unfetchable and unmaintained upstream
2009-11-17 misc/kde4-l10n-eo: unfetchable and unmaintained upstream
