Summary of Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in November 2001
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[For a full list of the changes, please refer to the tech-pkg mailing
list archives - agc]

By my calculations, there were 2552 packages in the Packages
Collection on December 1st, up from 2513 last month.

Hubert added a new PKGREVISION definition, which allows much easier
specification of a package's revision within pkgsrc. We also speeded
up pkgsrc by using normal makefile target, rather than a .USE macro.

Notable additions to the Packages Collection include:  artist, birda
(thanks, Lennart), cbrowser, cgicc, docbook-xml, etcupdate, etherape,
fmirror, gnucap, guppi, hesiod, keylaunch, libxslt, newmail, various
perl5 utilities, phoon, various qmail tools, root-tail, setquota,
source-highlight, some unixodbc utilities, weex and yatsvrs.

Notable updates to packages in the Packages Collection include:  6to4,
abiword, adzap, analog, ap-perl, apache6, asapm, asp2php, bidwatcher,
bind9, communicator and navigator, cpuflags, db3, dlint,
ElectricFence, etcupdate, faces, fetchmail, galeon, gkrellm, gnumeric,
gqmpeg, gsl, gtk-gnutella, hugs, imp, java-db3, kapm, kde2, kermit,
keychain, koffice, libmcrypt, libole2, libxml2, mew, micq, mkttfdir,
mozilla, mtr, namazu2, nano, a lot of perl5 utilities, pcre, pgpdump,
pkgchk, pkgcvsupdate, pkglint, postfix, procmail, qt2 and qt2-libs,
sketch, snort, sqlite, stunnel, surfraw, uae, ups-nut, uvscan-dat,
vigor, vim (thanks, Martti), wu-ftpd, xbatt, xbattbar, xmame, yudit,
and zsh.

The Package of the Month award goes to cbrowser - it's a very handy
and useful frontend for cscope, and can do call graphs and syntax
highlighting, editing, etc. 

If you use a package which isn't in the packages collection, or if you
would like to nominate a package as Package of the Month (it doesn't
have to be a new package), please drop me mail.

Thanks for using the packages collection, and enjoy the holiday season
of your choice.

Alistair G. Crooks
agc@netbsd.org
Wed Dec  5 07:19:15 GMT 2001