[For the full list of changes, please refer to the tech-pkg mailing
list - agc]

Changes to the Packages Collection in September 2005
====================================================

By my calculations, at the end of September 2005, there were 5558
packages in the Packages Collection, up from 5541 the previous month,
a rise of 17.

One reason that were weren't many packages added was that, in
September, we froze the pkgsrc tree for new additions, so that we
could concentrate on getting the pkgsrc-2005Q3 branched and released.

Notable additions include:  audio/moc, benchmarks/nbench,
benchmarks/pipebench, benchmarks/ubench, databases/php-sqlite,
devel/acr, devel/p5-Date-Simple, devel/picprg, fonts/dejavu-ttf,
net/scamper, security/bcrypt, sysutils/mesure, textproc/php-pspell,
wm/cwm, wm/mlvwm, www/lighttpd, x11/ede, x11/efltk and x11/gtk2+extra.

Notable updates include:  archivers/gtar-info, archivers/p7zip,
archivers/pbzip2, archivers/unrar, audio/amarok, audio/cdplayer,
audio/ifp-line, audio/libsndfile, audio/libvisual-plugins,
audio/SDL-arts, audio/SDL-esound, audio/SDL-nas, audio/xhippo,
audio/xmms-bump-scope, benchmarks/dbench, chat/centericq,
chat/gaim-encryption, chat/gale, chat/gg2, chat/gtmess,
chat/loudmouth, chat/ninja, chat/ser, chat/xaric, chat/xchat,
comms/asterisk, comms/efax-gtk, comms/gscmxx, comms/jpilot,
comms/kyopon, comms/minicom, comms/scmxx, converters/bib2xml,
converters/libiconv, databases/gourmet, databases/gramps2,
databases/krecipes, databases/luma, databases/mysql-client,
databases/mysql-server, databases/mysql4-client,
databases/mysql4-server, databases/phpldapadmin, databases/phppgadmin,
databases/postgresql80-plperl, databases/py-postgresql,
databases/ruby-activerecord, databases/ruby-mysql, databases/sqlite3,
databases/sqlite3-tcl, devel/allegro, devel/apache-ant, devel/apr,
devel/bison, devel/bmake, devel/chmlib, devel/cpuflags, devel/cvsync,
devel/elfsh, devel/gcvs, devel/gnustep-base, devel/gnustep-make,
devel/gob2, devel/libidn, devel/libntlm, devel/libtool-base,
devel/mantis, devel/monotone, devel/monotone-server,
devel/p5-subversion, devel/pcre, devel/pvs, devel/py-subversion,
devel/rake, devel/rt3, devel/ruby-activesupport, devel/ruby-cmd,
devel/ruby-subversion, devel/SDL, devel/subversion,
devel/subversion-base, editors/abiword, editors/abiword-plugins,
editors/vile, editors/xvile, emulators/DatLib, emulators/DatUtil,
emulators/gpsim-devel, emulators/gpsim-oscilloscope,
emulators/gpsim-ptyusart, emulators/MAMEDiff, emulators/qemu,
emulators/wine, fonts/dbz-ttf, games/freeciv-client,
games/freeciv-server, games/freeciv-share, games/nethack,
games/nethack-qt, games/nethack-tty, games/nethack-x11, games/openttd,
games/wesnoth, games/xmris, games/xscavenger, games/xvier,
graphics/cairo, graphics/g2, graphics/gimp-ufraw, graphics/gliv,
graphics/inkscape, graphics/netpbm, graphics/p5-Gnome,
graphics/ruby-RMagick, graphics/sane-backends, graphics/xpaint,
graphics/xsane, ham/grig, ham/xdx, inputmethod/ami, inputmethod/anthy,
inputmethod/sj3-dict, inputmethod/sj3-lib, inputmethod/sj3-server,
inputmethod/sj3-server-bin, inputmethod/uim, lang/awka, lang/gawk,
lang/kaffe, lang/kaffe-esound, lang/kaffe-x11, lang/ocaml, lang/php5,
lang/ruby16-base, lang/ruby18-base, lang/sablevm, lang/sun-jdk14,
lang/sun-jre14, mail/clamav, mail/ezmlm-idx, mail/mutt,
mail/mutt-devel, mail/postfix-current, mail/ruby-actionmailer,
mail/squirrelmail, mail/sqwebmail, mail/sylpheed, mail/sylpheed-devel,
mail/wmbiff, math/blitz++, math/gsl, math/gtklife, math/mathomatic,
math/pari, math/scilab, misc/cksfv, misc/dialog, misc/xchm,
multimedia/gxine, multimedia/xine-lib, net/amule, net/autonet,
net/bittornado, net/bittornado-gui, net/bittorrent,
net/bittorrent-gui, net/btget, net/freeradius, net/gtk-gnutella,
net/lftp, net/libsoup-devel, net/nmap, net/nmapfe, net/ns, net/ntp4,
net/openvpn, net/pen, net/rtorrent, net/snort, net/tor, net/unison,
net/unison-devel, net/vino, net/wget, news/inn, pkgtools/pkglint,
pkgtools/pkg_chk, pkgtools/url2pkg, print/gpdf, print/pscal,
print/xpdf, security/amavisd-new, security/crack, security/gnutls,
security/libtasn1, security/mit-krb5, security/nikto,
security/opencdk, security/openssh, security/py-gnutls,
security/zebedee, sysutils/cdrdao, sysutils/cfengine2,
sysutils/gkrellm, sysutils/gnome-vfs2, sysutils/grub, sysutils/grun,
sysutils/lsof, sysutils/rconfig, sysutils/rdiff-backup,
sysutils/rsnapshot, sysutils/sarah, sysutils/vip, sysutils/xentools20,
sysutils/xfce4-systemload-plugin, sysutils/xuvmstat, textproc/aspell,
textproc/btparse, textproc/docbook-xml, textproc/docbook-xsl,
textproc/flyspell, textproc/hevea, textproc/libxml2, textproc/libxslt,
textproc/py-docutils, textproc/ruby-redcloth, time/gtodo-applet,
wm/afterstep, wm/fluxbox, wm/pwm, wm/selectwm, wm/windowlab,
wm/windowmaker, www/ap-ssl, www/ap2-subversion, www/apache2, www/curl,
www/firefox, www/firefox-bin, www/firefox-gtk1, www/kannel,
www/kazehakase, www/liferea, www/mozilla-bin, www/opera,
www/p5-HTML-Mason, www/ruby-actionpack, www/ruby-actionwebservice,
www/squid, www/thy, x11/devilspie, x11/efltk, x11/gnustep-back,
x11/gnustep-gui, x11/kdebase3, x11/ocaml-graphics, x11/py-qt2,
x11/qt3-docs, x11/qt3-libs, x11/qt3-mysql, x11/qt3-psql,
x11/qt3-tools, x11/wdm, x11/xlockmore, x11/xscreensaver, and x11/zenity.

The Package of the Month award goes to pkgsrc/archivers/rzip,
nominated by Hubert Feyrer - taken from Hubert's blog at
http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html#20050720_0501:

	I haven't heared of rzip before either, but after someone
	mentioned it on the g4u list when the topic came to
	compression of filesystem images (i.e.  large files), I had a
	look.  Rzip claims to operates best at "large" files, so I
	tried to compress a 512MB qemu disk image, and here are the
	results:

	-rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel  524288000 Mar 30 19:39 harddisk
	-rw-r--r--  1 feyrer  wheel  241776704 Jul 20 04:14 harddisk.gz
	-rw-r--r--  1 feyrer  wheel  228779032 Jul 20 04:55 harddisk.bz2
	-rw-r--r--  1 feyrer  wheel  196960165 Jul 20 04:39 harddisk.rz 

	Rzip (.rz) seems the clear winner here with a compression
	ratio of 2.66, compared to the 2.17 of "gzip -9" and 2.29 of
	"bzip2 -9".


Alistair Crooks
Sat Oct 22 10:34:27 BST 2005