Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in October 2001
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[For a full list of changes, please see the mail sent to the
tech-pkg@netbsd.org mailing list - agc]

By my calculations, there were 2513 packages in the Packages
Collection on November 1st, up from 2425 last month.

At the end of October, we added initial support for Darwin to
the pkgsrc tree - whilst it's very early days, this new platform
is very exciting, and has a large and enthusiastic user base.

Notable packages added to the collection include: acme, amavis-perl,
ap-xslt, apc-gui, cabextract, dircproxy, firewalk, a number of
gkrellm plugins, gnats, id3, ipa, ircd, javadeps, LaBrea, mtr-gtk,
multi-gnome-terminal, nemesis, openldap, various perl5 utilities,
various php4 utilities, proftpd, radiusd-cistron, sqlite, tcl-pdflib,
x2vnc and zsnes.

Packages which have been updated include: 6tunnel, abiword, antiword,
ap-php, ap-ssl, apache and apache6, bind9-current, bonobo, bsdpak,
cscope, cvsweb, db3, dict client and server, doc2html, dxpc,
electricfence, ethereal, evolution, exmh, fetchmail, flwm, fvwm2,
gal, galeon, GConf, ggv, gkrellm, glimpse, gnome and related
utilities, gnucash, gnumeric, gtm, imap-uw, isakmpd, jade, java-db3,
jdbc-postgresql, jed, jwhois, kde2 and related packages (many
thanks, Nick), lavaps, lftp, libglade, libiconv, liblzo, libmcrypt,
librep, libtool, libwmf, libxml2, lsof, lyx, mad, mcrypt, mew (jun
wins the PF award for most updates in one month with 8), mhash,
mozilla, mysql, oaf, openldap, ORBit, various perl5 utilities, pan,
perl, pgpdump, php4 and related utilities, pico and pine, pkgchk,
pkgdiff, pkglint, pngcrush, racoon, ratpoison, rp-pppoe, rpm2cpio,
samba, sane, sarah, sawfish, scsh, slib, slrn, squid, stunnel,
sylpheed, tcl- and tk- expect, TeTeX, tkcvs, url2pkg, uvscan-dat,
vim (thanks, Martti), w32api, windowmaker, wterm, wv, xlockmore,
xpdf, xpkgwedge, and xpmroot.

The Package of the Month award goes to abcde, the command-line
utility to rip and encode an audio CD in either ogg or mp3 formats.
It also uses cd-discid to grab the track information from freedb.org
(or any other CDDB server). It is highly-configurable -  you can
set up the names of the tracks the way you want them to be, and
can invoke it with -l, which rips and encodes one track at a time,
for low disk space situations.  Highly recommended.

And, finally, my thanks to all of the pkgsrc developers who work
extremely hard to develop and maintain pkgsrc, and to those users
who send us PRs and build pkgsrc entries.

Alistair Crooks
Thu Nov  1 08:02:49 GMT 2001