Subject: Changes to the Packages Collection in January 1999
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Alistair G. Crooks <agc@ftp.netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-announce
Date: 02/22/1999 06:23:40
[Apologies for the lateness of this summary of changes. - agc]

Changes to the Packages Collection in January 1999
==================================================

The month of January saw Hubert's modifications to use a single
database of files, and also saw some interesting additions to the
collection, notably: Christoph's complete repository of Go games,
global, gnucash, openldap, p2c, pload, xglobe, and the
cross-compilation environments.  Notable updates include: ImageMagick,
XF86Setup, ddd, Thorsten's untiring updates to fetchmail, glib/gtk,
gnome, guavac, lesstif, pilot-link, postgresql, samba, skill and
squid-current. I must also thank David Brownlee for providing me
with a Perl script to help produce this summary. As always, the
complete and current list of changes to the packages collection
can be found in:

	http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html

Alistair G. Crooks
21st February 1999.



Modifications to the Packages Collection itself
===============================================

	Added code to pkg_add and pkg_create to maintain a database
		(``pkgdb'') with mappings of which file belongs to
		which pkg, and enable pkg_info to query it with
		the -F switch (which tells it to expect a filename
		instead of a package name). A pkg_admin utility was
		added to (re)build the pkgdb from scratch - for 
		migrating from old non-pkgdb-pkg_* tools.
		[hubertf 1999-01-19]
	Added "check" command to pkg_admin to allow checking of pkgs' 
		files against their MD5 checksum. [hubertf 1999-01-19]


Additions to the Packages Collection
====================================

	Added XmHTML-1.1.5 [mellon 1999-01-22]
Motif-based HTML Widget library

	Added baduki-0.2 [bad 1999-01-30]
a Go playing program based on xamigo

	Added cgoban-1.9.2 [bad 1999-01-30]
the complete goban.  A Go server client and sgf viewer/editor.

	Added cross-netbsd-powerpc-1.3.0.0 [tv 1999-01-05]
Cross-compile environment for NetBSD/powerpc

	Added cross-netbsd-sparc64-1.3.0.0 [tv 1999-01-05]
Cross-compile environment for NetBSD/sparc64

	Added fort77-1.14a [frueauf 1999-01-14]
the driver for f2c, a fortran to C translator

	Added freedom-1.8a [bad 1999-01-30]
a Go playing program based on GNU go

	Added gaim-19981231 [hubertf 1999-01-22]
gtk-based client for AOL's Instant Messenger chat system

	Added global-3.42 [abs 1999-01-08]
Source code tag system including web browser output

	Added gnucash-1.1.25 [mellon 1999-01-22]
a personal double-entry accounting program

	Added gtkglarea-1.1 [hubertf 1999-01-20]
OpenGL/Mesa widget for GTK+ GUI toolkit

	Added gtksql-0.2 [frueauf 1999-01-04]
a query tool for PostgreSQL written with GTK.

	Added moria-5.5.2 [simonb 1999-01-24]
A Rogue-like game with a different sense of scale than Rogue.

	Added netcdf-3.4 [frueauf 1999-01-14]
a library for array-oriented data access.

	Added nmap-2.03 [hubertf 1999-01-15]]
Network/port scanner with OS detection

	Added ntesla-1.7 [frueauf 1999-01-17]
tesla coil design program.

	Added openldap-1.1.2 [hwr 1999-01-07]
A lightweight directory access protocol server and client package 

	Added p2c-1.20 [jwise 1999-01-30]
Pascal to C compiler (translates Pascal to C).

	Added p5-HTML-Parser 2.22 [kim 1999-01-11]
perl5 module to parse HTML text documents

	Added pload-0.9.1 added [hubertf 1999-01-06]
PPP monitor for X11 monitoring totals and current in/out rates.

	Added recode-3.4 [kleink 1999-01-25]
Convert files between character sets and usages.

	Added swig-1.1p5 [mellon 1999-01-14]
Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator

	Added vfu-1.41 [hubertf 1999-01-27]
Small, handy, easy-to-use file manager for UNIX/Linux.

	Added web500gw-2.1b3 [hwr 1999-01-08]
A WWW to ldap gateway.

	Added wmmail-0.62 [tron 1999-01-23]
xbiff like "mail-checker" for WindowMaker

	Added xglobe-0.1 [hubertf 1999-01-04]
Displays the earth as seen from space on your X Desktop, similar to xearth.

	Added xskat-3.0 [frueauf 1999-01-07]
Play the card game Skat.

	Added xtermset-0.1 [hubertf 1999-01-02]
Change things like foreground color, size etc. on an xterm

	Added xtraceroute-0.8.12 [hubertf 1999-01-20]
Graphical version of traceroute, which traces the route IP packets go


Updated packages in the Packages Collection
===========================================

	Updated ImageMagick to 4.1.7 [tron 1999-01-02]
a package for display and interactive manipulation of images

	Updated XF86Setup to 3.3.3.1 [tron 1999-01-22]
Graphical configuration tool for XFree86.

	Updated autoconf to 2.13 [frueauf 1999-01-06]
Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms

	Updated cross-i386-msdosdjgpp to 2.02[.0] [tv 1999-01-04]
Cross-compile environment for MS-DOS on 386 and higher.

	Updated ddd to 3.1.3 [frueauf 1999-01-07]
Data Display Debugger -- a common graphical front-end for GDB/DBX/XDB

	Updated f2c to 19980913 [frueauf 1999-01-14]
Fortran to C compiler (translates fortran to C).

	Updated fetchmail to 4.7.3 [frueauf 1999-01-02]
	Updated fetchmail to 4.7.4 [frueauf 1999-01-06]
	Updated fetchmail to 4.7.5 [frueauf 1999-01-10]
batch mail retrieval/forwarding utility for pop2, pop3, apop, imap.

	Updated glib to 1.1.12 [tron 1999-01-16]
Some useful routines for C programming.

	Updated gnome-core to 0.99.0 [tron 1999-01-02]
	Updated gnome-core to 0.99.3.1 [tron 1999-01-16]
Base component of GNU Network Object Management Environment

	Updated gnome-libs to 0.99.3 [tron 1999-01-16]
libaries for the GNU Network Object Model Environment

	Updated gnuplot to 3.7 [hubertf 1999-01-25]
gnuplot is a nice plotting utility.

	Updated gtk+ to 1.1.12 [tron 1999-01-16]
The gimp toolkit. Libraries for building X11 user interfaces.

	Updated guavac to 1.2 [tv 1999-01-09]
A free compiler for the Java language

	Updated	imlib to 1.9.0 [tron 1999-01-16]
an image manipulation library for X11.

	Updated lesstif to 0.87.1 [frueauf 1999-01-13]
API compatible clone of the Motif toolkit.

	Updated libgtop to 0.99.0 [tron 1999-01-02]
	Updated libgtop to 0.99.2 [tron 1999-01-16]
library to retrieve system information, used in GNOME.

	Updated lsof to 4.39 [frueauf 1999-01-01]
Lists information about open files.

	Updated mutt to 0.95.1 [tron 1999-01-04]
text-based MIME mail client with PGP support

	Updated openldap to 1.1.4 [hwr 1999-01-27]
A lightweight directory access protocol server and client package 

	Updated p5-libwww to 5.36 [kim 1999-01-11]
perl5 library for WWW access.

	Updated pilot-link to 0.9.0 [simonb 1999-01-20]
Tools to talk to the 3Com Pilot PDA

	Updated pload to v0.9.2 [hubertf 1999-01-15]]
PPP monitor for X11 monitoring totals and current in/out rates.

	Updated postgresql to 6.4.2 [frueauf 1999-01-04]
a robust, next generation, object-relational DBMS

	Updated samba2 to 2.0.0 [bouyer 1999-01-21]
A LanManager(R)-compatible server suite for Unix

	Updated scheme48 to 0.52 [jonb 1999-01-19]
The Scheme Underground's implementation of R4RS.

	Updated skill to 3.7.6 [kim 1999-01-04]
	Updated skill to 3.7.7.  Fixes segfaults on BSD 4.4 -derived
		systems (related to getting the number of signals right).
		Adds support for SIGPWR on NetBSD.  [kim 1999-01-05]
send signals to processes given user names, ttys, commands, or pids

	Updated squid-current to 2.1.PATCH2+memory-leak patch [bad 1999-01-08]
Post-Harvest_cached WWW proxy cache and accelerator

	Updated tgif to 4.0.9 [frueauf 1999-01-24]
Full featured X11 drawing program.

	Updated windowmaker to 0.50.2 [tron 1999-01-16]
This window manager is a GNUStep-compliant NeXTStep clone.

	Updated wm-themes to 0.50.x [tron 1999-01-16]
	Renamed wm-themes to wmthemes [tron 1999-01-23]
Themes for the window manager WindowMaker.

	Updated xglobe to 0.2 [hubertf 1999-01-20]
Displays the earth as seen from space on your X Desktop, similar to xearth.

	Updated xscreensaver to 3.07 [frueauf 1999-01-06]
a screen saver and locker for the X window system.

	Updated xtermset to V0.2 [hubertf 1999-01-08]
Change things like foreground color, size etc. on an xterm

	Updated xwrits to 2.7.3 [frueauf 1999-01-17]
A wrist break reminder for prevention of repetitive stress injuries.

	Updated zircon to 1.18.205 [frueauf 1999-01-06]
an X11 interface to Internet Relay Chat.

	Updated zope-mysql to 1.1.2 [tsarna 1999-01-09]
Zope Database Adaptor for MySQL