Subject: Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in May 2000
To: None <netbsd-announce@netbsd.org>
From: Alistair G. Crooks <agc@ftp.netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/27/2000 07:06:07
Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in May 2000
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[Sorry for the tardiness of this summary, caused by the annual Crooks
family vacation - agc].
Notable additions include: acroread fonts packages, blackbox,
bluefish, boost, cocoon, drscheme, fop, fping, freetype libs and
utils, fxtv, ghostscript 6, gtl, kannel, kth-krb4, opendis, opensp,
sgi-stl, swing, type1inst, waplet, xerces-j, XP, and XT.
Notable updates include: abiword, ap-fastcgi, balsa, bind9, bluefish,
boost, cdrecord-current, checkbot, clisp, communicator and navigator,
cscope, esound, ethereal, gcombust, glib, gmake, gnapster, various
gnome modules, gnucash, gnumeric, gqview, grace, gtk, imap-uw, imlib,
iozone, ircII, kdevelop, lesstif, libgtop, libslang, libtool, libxml,
mgetty+sendfax, mtv, mutt, nedit, netpbm, nmap, oneko, openssh, ORBit,
pdflib, ploticus, postgresql, rxvt, samba, squid, t1lib, tgif, vtun,
w3m, xlockmore (note the Security advisory for this package).
Package of the Month award goes to oneko, nominated by Hubert Feyrer.
To quote from his mail:
"oneko -bsd_daemon -bg red" *rox* :)
Alistair G. Crooks
Tue Jun 27 07:01:54 BST 2000
Changes to the Packages Collection Infrastructure
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pkg_admin: Added "lsall" and "lsbest" commants to list all/best
expansion of a given package. Userlevel interface to
pkg patterns. [hubertf 2000-05-09]
bsd.pkg.mk: added "show-pkgsrc-dir" target [agc 2000-05-11]
Added category fonts [sakamoto 2000-05-12]
bsd.pkg.mk: Added support for bzip2 compressed distribution patches
[fredb 2000-05-16]
Packages Added to the Packages Collection
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Added acroread-chsfont-4.0 [sakamoto 2000-05-12]
Asian Font Packs for Acrobat Reader 4.0 (Chinese Simplified)
Added acroread-chtfont-4.0 [sakamoto 2000-05-12]
Asian Font Packs for Acrobat Reader 4.0 (Chinese Traditional)
Added acroread-font-share-4.0 [sakamoto 2000-05-12]
Asian Font Packs for Acrobat Reader 4.0 (common base)
Added acroread-jpnfont-4.0 [sakamoto 2000-05-12]
Asian Font Packs for Acrobat Reader 4.0 (Japanese)
Added acroread-korfont-4.0 [sakamoto 2000-05-12]
Asian Font Packs for Acrobat Reader 4.0 (Korean)
Added ap-auth-ldap-1.4.2 [kleink 2000-05-30]
Module to allow apache authentication against an LDAP directory
Added blackbox 0.51.3.1 [pooka 2000-05-19]
small and fast X11R6 window manager
Added bluefish-0.4pre11 [wulf 2000-05-10]
GTK HTML editor for the experienced web designer
Added boost-1.14.1 [jlam 2000-05-09]
free libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library
Added cocoon-1.7.4 [jwise 2000-05-31]
the Apache Project's XML/XSL based web publishing system
Added dpbox-6.00.00 [wulf 2000-05-15]
Multi-Protocol Amateur Packet Radio BBS
Added drscheme-101 [groo 2000-05-22]
R4RS-compilant and nearly R5RS-compliant scheme tailored for teaching
Added fop-0.12.1 [jwise 2000-05-31]
the Apache Project's XSL Formatting Objects implementation
Added fping [abs 2000-05-19]
Quickly ping many hosts w/o flooding the network
Added freetype-lib-1.2 [jlam 2000-05-01]
TrueType font rendering engine and library API
Added freetype-utils-1.2 [jlam 2000-05-01]
Utilities for manipulating TrueType fonts
Added fxtv 1.0.2 [tron 2000-05-07]
TV display application for Brooktree 848 compatible TV cards
Added gcc 2.95.2 [tron 2000-05-24]
GNU Compiler Collection
Added ghostscript-6.01 [jlam 2000-05-06]
Aladdin Postscript interpreter with X11 drivers
Added ghostscript-fonts-6.0 [jlam 2000-05-06]
Postscript fonts for Aladdin Ghostscript
Added ghostscript-nox11-6.01 [jlam 2000-05-06]
Aladdin Postscript interpreter
Added ghostscript-x11-6.01 [jlam 2000-05-06]
Aladdin Postscript interpreter with X11 drivers
Added gtl-0.3.3 [jlam 2000-05-09]
C++ graph data structure library based on the STL
Added ja-vflib-lib-2.24.2 [jlam 2000-05-01]
Japanese Vector font library
Added ja-vflib-utils-2.24.2 [jlam 2000-05-01]
Utilities for manipulating VFlib vector font files
Added kannel-0.8 [rh 2000-05-30]
open source WAP and SMS gateway
Added kbanner-2.1 [itohy 2000-05-18]
Display kanji files in large letters
Added kth-krb4-1.0.1 [wennmach 2000-05-25]
Kerberos IV distribution from KTH
Added ocaml-3.00 [groo 2000-05-05]
the latest implementation of the Caml dialect of ML
Added opendis-0.0.3 [sommerfeld 2000-05-11]
Download images from Flashpoint Digita-based cameras
Added opensp-1.4 [hubertf 2000-05-23]
SGML parser, successor to "sp"
Added p5-CGI-2.66 [christos 2000-05-11]
perl5 module for writing forms-based CGI programs
Added p5-Socket6-0.06 [itojun 2000-05-26]
perl5 module to support getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo()
Added pstree-2.14 [mjl 2000-05-12]
Display processes in a tree
Added sgi-stl [jlam 2000-05-24]
SGI Standard Template Library
Added sgi-stl-docs [jlam 2000-05-24]
SGI Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
Added swarm-0.26 [agc 2000-05-17]
Software arm6 core emulator
Added swing-1.1.1 [jwise 2000-05-25]
Sun's Java Foundation Classes (the Swing UI toolkit), version 1.1.1
Added ttt-1.4 [sakamoto 2000-05-22]
Tele Traffic Tapper
Added type1inst-0.6.1 [groo 2000-05-24]
Automatically generate fonts.scale/fonts.dir for Type1 fonts
Added waplet-0.01 [rh 2000-05-31]
java applet-based WAP emulator and WML browser
Added watanabe-vfont-19930318 [sakamoto 2000-05-12]
Watanabe-vector Japanese font
Added wmWeather-1.31 [rh 2000-05-12]
WindowMaker DockApp showing local weather conditions
Added xalan-j-1.0.1 [jwise 2000-05-30]
the Apache Project's XSLT implementation
Added xbeeb [skrll 2000-05-22]
Acorn BBC Micro emulator with an X based interface
Added xdialog-1.4.1 [jlam 2000-05-09]
X11 drop-in replacement for the curses dialog program
Added xerces-j-1.1.0 [jwise 2000-05-26]
the Apache Project's validating XML parser with DOM and SAX support
Added xerces-j-current-1.1.0 [jwise 2000-05-31]
the Apache Project's validating XML parser with DOM and SAX support
Added xmradio 0.9b2 [tron 2000-05-07]
Radio applicaton for Brooktree 848 compatible TV cards
Added XP-0.5 [jwise 2000-05-31]
James Clark's non-validating XML Parser for Java
Added XT-19991105 [jwise 2000-05-31]
James Clark's Java implementation of XSLT
Added xpenguins-1.2 [hubertf 2000-05-30]
Little penguins walking along the tops of your windows
Added xracer-0.96.9 [rh 2000-05-29]
XRacer is a clone of the popular Psygnosis game Wipeout
Updated Packages in the Packages Collection
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Updated abiword-personal to 0.7.9 [jlam 2000-05-03]
Open Source cross-platform word processor
Updated ap-fastcgi to 2.2.2 [mjl 2000-05-03]
Updated ap-fastcgi to 2.2.4 [mjl 2000-05-18]
New, improved CGI-like interface module for Apache
Updated ap-jserv to 1.1.1 [jwise 2000-05-22]
Servlet engine for Apache Server
Updated balsa to 0.8.0 [rh 2000-05-22]
GNOME EMail client
Updated bind9 to 9.0.0b3 [hubertf 2000-05-25]
Version 9 of the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, implementation of DNS
Updated bluefish to 0.4 [wulf 2000-05-21]
GTK HTML editor for the experienced web designer
Updated boost to 1.14.3 [jlam 2000-05-29]
free libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library
Updated cdrecord-current to 1.9a01 [hubertf 2000-05-23]
This program allows you to create CD's on a CD-Recorder
Updated checkbot to 1.60 [abs 2000-05-16]
Verify links on a set of HTML pages
Updated clisp to 2000-03-06 [wiz 2000-05-27]
CLISP, a Common Lisp implementation
Updated communicator to 4.73 [abs 2000-05-11]
Netscape communicator complete install - Digital UNIX/Linux/SunOS binary
Updated control-center to 1.2.0 [drochner 2000-05-30]
GNOME control-center development library
Updated cscope to 15.0.2 [wiz 2000-05-19]
interactive C program browser
Updated esound to 0.2.18 [drochner 2000-05-30]
the Enlightened sound daemon
Updated ethereal to 0.8.8 [hubertf 2000-05-11]
Network protocol analyzer
Updated gcombust to 0.1.32 [rh 2000-05-07]
Updated gcombust to 0.1.33 [rh 2000-05-31]
Graphical frontend for CD mastering (mkhybrid, cdrecord, ...)
Updated gdk-pixbuf to 0.8.0 [drochner 2000-05-30]
the GNOME image loading library
Updated glib to 1.2.8 [rh 2000-05-26]
Some useful routines for C programming
Updated gmake to 3.79 [hubertf 2000-05-26]
GNU version of 'make' utility
Updated gnapster to 1.3.9 [tron 2000-05-16]
simple client for the online mp3 community
Updated gnome-core to 1.2.0 [drochner 2000-05-30]
Base component of GNU Network Object Management Environment
Updated gnome-libs to 1.2.1 [drochner 2000-05-30]
Libaries for the GNU Network Object Model Environment
Updated gnome-print to 0.19 [rh 2000-05-19]
Updated gnome-print to 0.20 [rh 2000-05-31]
Prototype implementation of the Gnome Printing Architecture
Updated gnucash to 1.3.7 [rh 2000-05-13]
Personal double-entry accounting program
Updated gnumeric to 0.53 [rh 2000-05-30]
Powerful and easy to use spreadsheet program from the GNOME project
Updated gqview to 0.8.1 [wiz 2000-05-25]
another gtk-based graphic file viewer
Updated grace to 5.1.0 [drochner 2000-05-08]
GRaphing, Advanced Computation and Exploration of data
Updated gtk-gnutella to 0.12 [hubertf 2000-05-05]
GTk-based gnutella client
Updated gtk+ to 1.2.8 [rh 2000-05-26]
Gimp toolkit. Libraries for building X11 user interfaces
Updated imap-uw to 4.7c2 [jlam 2000-05-18]
University of Washington's IMAP, POP2, and POP3 servers
Updated imlib to 1.9.8.1 [drochner 2000-05-30]
image manipulation library for X11
Updated iozone to 3.09 [pooka 2000-05-02]
Benchmark for file read and write speed
Updated ircII to 4.4U [mrg 2000-05-11]
The 'Internet Relay Chat' and 'Internet Citizens Band' Client
Updated jakarta-tomcat to 3.1 [jwise 2000-05-14]
the Apache Project's Java Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 server
Updated kdevelop to 1.2 [wulf 2000-05-05]
Intergrated Development Enviroment for Unix/X11/KDE
Updated lesstif to 0.91.0 [drochner 2000-05-25]
API compatible clone of the OSF/Motif toolkit
Updated libgtop to 1.0.7 [fredb 2000-05-01]
Updated libgtop to 1.0.9 [drochner 2000-05-30]
library to retrieve system information, used in GNOME
Updated libslang to 1.4.1 [mjl 2000-05-18]
Routines for rapid alpha-numeric terminal applications development
Updated libtool to 1.3.5 [rh 2000-05-31]
Generic shared library support script
Updated libxml to 1.8.7 [rh 2000-05-30]
XML parser, mainly used by the GNOME project
Updated lynx-current to 2.8.3rel.1 [fredb 2000-05-07]
Alphanumeric display oriented World-Wide Web Client
Updated mgetty+sendfax to 1.1.21 [fredb 2000-05-16]
Handle external logins, send and receive faxes
Updated mtv to 1.1.1.1 [tron 2000-05-12]
MPEG Video+Audio and VCD Player
Updated mutt to enable IMAP over SSL support [tron 2000-05-13]
text-based MIME mail client with PGP support
Updated navigator to 4.73 [abs 2000-05-11]
Netscape navigator standalone browser - Digital UNIX/Linux/SunOS binary
Updated nedit to 5.1.1 [mjl 2000-05-19]
Motif based standard GUI style text editor
Updated netpbm to 9.2 [tron 2000-05-17]
toolkit for conversion of images between different formats
Updated nmap to 2.52 [hubertf 2000-05-10]
Updated nmap to 2.53 [frueauf 2000-05-15]
Network/port scanner with OS detection
Updated oneko to 1.2 [itohy 2000-05-18]
Like xneko except on the desktop and with other animals
Updated openssh to 2.1.0p3 [itojun 2000-05-31]
Open Source Secure shell client and server (remote login program)
Updated ORBit to 0.5.1 [drochner 2000-05-30]
high-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language
Updated p5-DBD-mysql to 1.2214 [christos 2000-05-11]
perl DBI/DBD driver for MySQL databases
Updated p5-DBI to 1.13 [christos 2000-05-11]
the database-independent Perl database access API
Updated pdflib to 3.0 [drochner 2000-05-08]
C library to produce PDF files
Updated pgaccess to 0.98.6 [rh 2000-05-24]
Free graphical database management tool for PostgreSQL
Updated pkg_install to 20000511, mostly to get some bug fixes in
from the base system. [hubertf 2000-05-15]
NetBSD-current's pkg_* tools
Updated pkg_tarup to 1.0.1 [hubertf 2000-05-16]
Generates binary package from installed pkg
Updated pkglint to 2.07 [abs 2000-05-16]
Updated pkglint to 2.08 [dmcmahill 2000-05-29]
Verifier for NetBSD packages and complete pkgsrc tree
Updated ploticus to 1.37 [rh 2000-05-26]
Versatile data visualization engine
Updated port2pkg to 1.5 [sakamoto 2000-05-12]
Convert from a FreeBSD port to a NetBSD package
Updated postgresql to 7.0 [jlam 2000-05-20]
Robust, next generation, object-relational DBMS
Updated ptl2 to 2.1.2 [msaitoh 2000-05-07]
Portable user-level Thread Library 2 written by Kota Abe
Updated rxvt to 2.7.3 [hubertf 2000-05-08]
Low memory usage xterm replacement that supports color
Updated samba to 2.0.7 [jlam 2000-05-02]
SMB/CIFS protocol server suite for UNIX
Updated smtpfeed to 1.06 [itojun 2000-05-06]
Updated smtpfeed to 1.07 [itojun 2000-05-29]
SMTP Fast Exploding External Deliverer for Sendmail
Updated squid to 2.3s2 [tron 2000-05-19]
Post-Harvest_cached WWW proxy cache and accelerator
Updated t1lib to 1.0.1 [drochner 2000-05-08]
Library for generating bitmaps from Adobe Type 1 fonts
Updated tcl-postgresql to 7.0 [jlam 2000-05-20]
Tcl interface to PostgreSQL
Updated tfkiss to 1.2.3 [wulf 2000-05-11]
Software implementation of TheFirmware for use with TNT
Updated tgif to 4.1.33 [rh 2000-05-12]
Fully-featured X11 drawing program
Updated tk-postgresql to 7.0 [jlam 2000-05-20]
Tk interface to PostgreSQL
Updated verilog-current to 20000506 [dmcmahill 2000-05-10]
Updated verilog-current to 20000527 [dmcmahill 2000-05-30]
Verilog simulation and synthesis tool (development snapshot version)
Updated vfu to 3.00 [hubertf 2000-05-22]
Small, handy, easy-to-use file manager
Updated vtun to 2.2 [kleink 2000-05-25]
Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, etc.
Updated w3m to 0.1.9 [itohy 2000-05-19]
Terminal-based WWW browser with HTML tables and frames support
Updated Xbae to 4.8.1 [drochner 2000-05-25]
Three Motif compatible widgets: XbaeMatrix, XbaeCaption, XbaeInput
Updated xjman to 0.5 [sakamoto 2000-05-16]
Japanized X manual from "The X Japanese Documentation Project"
Updated xlockmore to 4.16.1 [hubertf 2000-05-11]
Like XLock session locker/screen saver, but just more
Updated xmindpath to 1.07a [wiz 2000-05-21]
MindPath PocketPoint user-level driver for X11
Updated xpuyopuyo to 0.3.8 [jlam 2000-05-29]
Tetris-like puzzle game
Updated zoularis to 20000512 [christos 2000-05-12]
provides NetBSD libs, includes and utilities on Solaris
Other Changes to the Packages Collection
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Renamed xview-all to xview [tron 2000-05-04]
OpenLook Toolkit meta-package
Removed ghostscript-x11 [jlam 2000-05-10]
Aladdin Postscript interpreter without X11 drivers
Downgraded xerces-j to 1.0.3 [jwise 2000-05-31]
the Apache Project's validating XML parser with DOM and SAX support