Subject: Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in March 1999
To: None <netbsd-announce@netbsd.org>
From: Alistair G. Crooks <agc@ftp.netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/06/1999 02:25:36
Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in March 1999
=======================================================

Some very far-reaching changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection
were made in March:

+ support has been added for using pkgsrc on Solaris,
+ deinstallation and cleaning behaviour has been modified so that
pre-requisite packages can be installed or "cleaned" on a package-basis,
+ pre-requisite packages can be shown for an installed package,
+ "just-in-time" invocation of su(1) or similar has been added,
when installing packages and the user is not root.

Notable aditions to the packages collection include:  beroftpd,
controlcenter, docbook and related packages (thanks, Rene), ee and
eterm, fromto, jove, micq, mswordview, ptl2, radius, and zoularis.

Notable updates to packages include:  ddd, enlightenment (thanks,
Tim), fvwm2/xpmroot, glib/gtk, gnome, ImageMagick, lsof, lyx, mutt,
nmh (thanks, Kim), scilab, siag, ucd-snmp, vile/xvile, wu-ftpd,
xscreensaver and xtraceroute.

I must also thank Matthias Scheler for his work in keeping up with
the gnome releases over the last few months - it's certainly not
an easy job, due to the frequency of the releases.  What's more
impressive is that I don't believe that Matthias actually uses
gnome, and he has done this maintenance without complaint.  Well,
maybe just a few here and there.

Alistair G. Crooks
Tue Apr  6 06:44:55 BST 1999



Changes to the Package Tools and the Collection
===============================================

	bsd.pkg.mk: Allow recursive cleaning/deinstalling of required
		packages: "make clean CLEANDEPENDS=YES", "make
		deinstall DEINSTALLDEPENDS=YES". Both CLEANDEPENDS and
		DEINSTALLDEPENDS default to NO, so this isn't
		different from the current behaviour.  [hubertf
		1999-03-04]
	bsd.pkg.mk: Added support for Solaris to pkgsrc [agc
		1999-03-08]
	bsd.pkg.mk: Added "just-in-time" invocation of su(1) when
		doing a "make install", and the effective UID is
		non-zero.  [agc 1999-03-31]
	pkg_delete: Added -O switch to pkg_delete to only remove any
		references to the package from the pkgdb, but do not
		touch the package or its files otherwise. Used by the
		build system's "make reinstall" target. [hubertf
		1999-03-02]
	pkg_info: Show which packages the package in question
		requires. [hubertf 1999-03-04]
	pkg_delete: Added -R flag to pkg_delete to delete a package
		and all packages it depends on. [hubertf 1999-03-08]


Packages Added
==============

	Added beroftpd-1.3.4 [rh 1999-03-07]
experimental replacement ftp server for Un*x systems based on wu-ftpd

	Added cdlabelgen-1.1.3 [rh 1999-03-30]
generate frontcards and traycards for CDs

	Added controlcenter-1.04 [garbled 1999-03-31]
GNOME control-center development library

	Added diffutils-2.7 (only for Solaris) [agc 1999-03-12]
GNU diff utilities - find the differences between files

	Added docbook-3.0 [rh 1999-03-14]
An SGML DTD designed for computer documentation

	Added econf-0.15 [garbled 1999-03-31]
A Configuration tool for easily setting up Enlightenment

	Added ee-0.3.8 [garbled 1999-03-31]
Image viewer based on imlib by the Rasterman.  Gtk clone of xv.

	Added eterm-0.8.8 [garbled 1999-03-29]
An extremely colorful and feature filled xterm.

	Added freetype-1.1 [garbled 1999-03-29]
a truetype font rendering engine and library API.

	Added fromto-1.5 [bad 1999-03-12]
a sendmail logfile viewer

	Added gmc-4.5.25 [tron 1999-03-15]
Gnome version of Midnight Commander, a free Norton Commander Clone

	Added gnugo (gnugo-beta-1.72) [bad 1999-03-11]
a Go playing program

	Added gtk---1.0.0 [rh 1999-03-14]
C++ wrapper for the gimp toolkit (gtk++).

	Added iso8879-1986 [rh 1999-03-14]
Character entity sets from ISO 8879:1986 (SGML)

	Added iso12083-1993 [rh 1999-03-14]
SGML DTDs from the The Electronic Publishing Special Interest Group

	Added jade-1.2.1 [rh 1999-03-15]
An object-oriented SGML/XML parser toolkit and DSSSL engine

	Added jove-4.16 [agc 1999-03-06]
small emacs-style editor, but lacks the LISP engine.

	Added lgrind-3.5 [jwise 1999-03-10]
A source pretty printer for LaTeX

	Added libaudiofile-0.1.6 [tron 1999-03-06]
a sound library for SGI audio file.

	Added libident-0.22 [tron 1999-03-12]
A small library to interface the ident protocol server (rfc1413).

	Added micq-0.3.3 [garbled 1999-03-30]
Text-based ICQ implementation.

	Added mswordview-0.5.2 [jwise 1999-03-02]
Microsoft Word 8.0 (Office 97) to HTML document translator.

	Added p5-gdbm-5.4.4 [kim 1999-03-02]
perl interface to gdbm - GNU database manager

	Added pcemu-1.01a [garbled 1999-03-30]
An 8086 PC emulator, by David Hedley

	Added ptl2-990325 [tron 1999-03-30]
This is PTL2 -- Portable Thread Library 2 written by Kota Abe.

	Added qwspritefield-1.6 [tron 1999-03-23]
Efficiently redrawn sprites in the Qt GUI Toolkit.

	Added radius-3.6B [kim 1999-03-21]
a standard authentication protocol server

	Added rcs-5.7 (only for Solaris) [agc 1999-03-12]
GNU Revision Control System - version control software

	Added remind-3.0.19 [kim 1999-03-02]
a calendar/alarm program with interpreted input language

	Added sp-1.3 [rh 1999-03-13]
An SGML System Conforming to International Standard ISO 8879

	Added zoularis-19990309 [agc 1999-03-09]
provides NetBSD libs, includes and utilities on Solaris


Updated Packages
================

	Updated ddd to 3.1.4 [frueauf 1999-03-28]
Data Display Debugger -- a common graphical front-end for GDB/DBX/XDB

	Updated enlightenment to 0.15.4 [garbled 1999-03-29]
a window manager for X

	Updated esound to 0.2.8 [tron 1999-03-06]
the Enlightened sound daemon

	Updated fnlib to 0.4 [garbled 1999-03-29]
a color font rendering library for X11R6

	Updated fvwm2 to 2.2 [hubertf 1999-03-01]
Virtual window manager for X

	Updated gEDA to 19990226 [rh 1999-03-01]
	Updated gEDA to 19990327 [rh 1999-03-28]
a toolset for automating electronic design.

	Updated glib to 1.2.0 [tron 1999-03-04]
Some useful routines for C programming.

	Updated gnome-core to 1.0.1 [tron 1999-03-07]
	Updated gnome-core to 1.0.3 [tron 1999-03-16]
Base component of GNU Network Object Management Environment

	Updated gnome-libs to 1.0.1 [tron 1999-03-07]
	Updated gnome-libs to 1.0.3 [tron 1999-03-16]
libaries for the GNU Network Object Model Environment

	Updated gtk+ to 1.2.0 [tron 1999-03-04]
The gimp toolkit. Libraries for building X11 user interfaces.

	Updated ImageMagick to 4.2.1 [tron 1999-03-03]
a package for display and interactive manipulation of images

	Updated	imlib to 1.9.4 [tron 1999-03-06]
an image manipulation library for X11.

	Updated libgtop to 1.0.1 [tron 1999-03-07]
library to retrieve system information, used in GNOME.

	Updated lsof to 4.41_W [christos 1999-03-28]
Lists information about open files.

	Updated lyx to 1.0.1 [frueauf 1999-03-27]
a graphical frontend for LaTeX (nearly WYSIWYG).

	Updated mc to 4.5.25 [tron 1999-03-15]
Midnight Commander, a free Norton Commander Clone

	Updated mutt to 0.95.4 [tron 1999-03-04]
text-based MIME mail client with PGP support

	Updated nessus to 990318 [bouyer 1999-03-22]
Network security scanner

	Updated nmh to 1.0 [kim 1999-03-04]
A cleaned up MH mailer suite.

	Updated ORBit to version 0.4.0 [tron 1999-03-05]
high-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language

	Updated pload to 0.9.3 [hubertf 1999-03-02]
	Updated pload to 0.9.4 [hubertf 1999-03-05]
PPP monitor for X11 monitoring totals and current in/out rates.

	Updated png to 1.0.3 [tron 1999-03-04]
Library for manipulating PNG images.

	Updated pspp to 0.2.3 [rh 1999-03-15]
A program for statistical analysis of sampled data.

	Updated samba to 2.0.3 [bouyer 1999-03-29]
A LanManager(R)-compatible server suite for Unix

	Updated scilab to 2.4.1 [frueauf 1999-03-05]
a high level scientific math programming environment with graphics.

	Updated siag to 3.1.7 [hubertf 1999-03-05]
Poor man's office suite with spreadsheet, word processor, etc.

	Updated splay to 0.8.2 [rh 1999-03-28]
Audio player/decoder that decodes MPEG Layer I,II,III and WAV files.

	Updated tgif to 4.1.3 [rh 1999-03-24]
Full featured X11 drawing program.

	Updated ucd-snmp to 3.6 [hubertf 1999-03-07]
an extensible SNMP implementation.

	Updated vfu to 1.45 [hubertf 1999-03-05]
	Updated vfu to 1.46 [hubertf 1999-03-22]
Small, handy, easy-to-use file manager for UNIX/Linux.

	Updated vile to 8.2 [agc 1999-03-02]
VI Like Emacs.  a vi "workalike", with many additional features.

	Updated webalizer to 1.22-01 [mjl 1999-03-23]
Web server log file analysis program.

	Updated wily to 0.13.41 [agc 1999-03-08]
A Unix/X11 clone of the Plan9 acme editor/environment

	Updated windowmaker to 0.51.2 [tron 1999-03-20]
This window manager is a GNUStep-compliant NeXTStep clone.

	Updated wu-ftpd to 2.4.2 [rh 1999-03-07]
A replacement ftp server for Un*x systems.

	Updated wu-ftpd-vr to 2.4.2.16 [rh 1999-03-07]
An ftp server based on wu-ftpd, with some enhancements and bug fixes.

	Updated xanim to 2.80.0 [rh 1999-03-19]
	Updated xanim to 2.80.1 [rh 1999-03-28]
play most popular animation formats and show pictures

	Updated xlockmore to 4.13 [hubertf 1999-03-09]
Like XLock session locker/screen saver, but just more.

	Updated xpmroot to 2.2 (matching fvwm's version) [hubertf 1999-03-01]
Sets the root window to an Xpm pixmap

	Updated xps to 3.06 [sakamoto 1999-03-01]
displays the Unix processes as a tree of forest.

	Updated xscreensaver to 3.08 [frueauf 1999-03-28]
a screen saver and locker for the X window system.

	Updated xtraceroute to 0.8.14 [hubertf 1999-03-02]
Graphical version of traceroute, which traces the route IP packets go

	Updated xvile to 8.2 [agc 1999-03-02]
VI Like Emacs, X11 version -- a fully "X aware" vi work-alike

	Updated zircon to 1.18.213 [frueauf 1999-03-28]
an X11 interface to Internet Relay Chat.

	Updated zoularis to 19990328 [christos 1999-03-28]
provides NetBSD libs, includes and utilities on Solaris


Other Changes
=============

	Renamed fvwm-1.24r to fvwm1 [tron 1999-03-01]
Virtual window manager for X

	Renamed	fvwm-2.2 to fvwm2 [tron 1999-03-01]
Virtual window manager for X

	Deleted freedom-1.8a - obsoleted by gnugo [bad 1999-03-11]