I have new versions of Firefox running on my computers, and I was busy adding block images rules on each one. I thought this was less than ideal, so I decided to give Privoxy a new try. I saw that a new version is out, so I updated the package as well. Apart from getting more up-to-date filters, there’s a memory leak fix and I could also enable threads for parallel request handling.
- » Updated mstream
- I had a couple of tweaks in my private copy of mstream to keep stream titles shorter, and it had been working great for a couple of months. So I released a new version and called it 1.0. It does everything I need now. Enjoy!
- » Updated p5-Image-Imlib2
- Now that I’m using a threaded version of Perl, I get to find out what doesn’t work with it… I’ve upgraded p5-Image-Imlib2 to version 1.03 to bring in threaded Perl support. I’m glad that a version upgrade was all it needed.
30.5.04
Yikes, rdist is broken
Christos implemented statvfs on NetBSD (see his proposal when he was planning the work). I just upgraded to 2.0F and found out that rdist6 (or the freerdist package, whatever you wanna call it) no longer compiles, as it expects to use statfs instead.
I use rdist6 to distribute centrally mastered files around on my systems, so I was too impatient to wait for an “official” fix, so I patched something together in pkgsrc to make rdist6 work again.
- » Bumped pine dependencies
- Trying to catch up on my packages, I recompiled the new version of pine since its latest security fix (not in pine itself, but the PGP scripts that come with it). The compilation failed with the old versions of the imap-uw and pico libraries, so I bumped the minimum required versions of both to the current versions in pkgsrc. If you have installed a binary pine package recently, you may want to recompile to avoid any strange behaviour (or core dumps).
- » Patched sudo package
- Jukka Salmi had filed PR/25623 regarding a build failure of sudo with Kerberos (Heimdal). This turned out to be a quick fix, fortunately.
19.5.04
Released tcsh 6.13
I took some time today to release tcsh 6.13, allowing Christos to spend his time on code enhancements rather than the release procedure. The latest beta had already been out for a couple of months, and I had been using it every day for over a month without problems. This combined with no complaints on the beta testers list would seem to indicate it was an excellent release candidate. The previous release was from July of 2002, so it was about time to get a new release out.
Christos has promptly committed new patches into the code repository, so I’m thinking I’ll try to pick another beta 6 months from now and see if I could push the next release out soon after.
26.9.03
Pretty PostScript
I hadn’t kept an eye on new developments in my favorite PostScript converter, mp for a while. Last I remember, I tracked down its home when I added it to pkgsrc. It does a great job at printing mail, news and other documents. It also comes with templates to use with various day-runner formats.
A couple of days ago Hubert relayed a message from Rich Burridge, the author of mpdist, that the version in pkgsrc is really old. He had included the URL to its new home, so I spent some time bringing us up to the latest and greatest.
One upgrade down, a gazillion to go…
22.9.03
Apache::Gallery updated again
Naturally as I am done with an upgrade, a security issue is announced regarding Apache::Gallery’s use of the Inline module. A new version of Apache::Gallery was released, with new beta state modules as dependencies: Image::Imlib2 directly and Module::Build indirectly. (What’s wrong with good old Make::Maker, I ask!)
After figuring out Module::Build and then staring at strange shared library resolution problems with Image::Imlib2, I simply put in an ugly kludge. I just have a feeling that this will come back to bite me one day.
The new Apache::Gallery comes with two sets of templates: default and new. I’m yet to try them out — I just made the minimal adjustment for now to keep the existing albums working. The folder.png image was renamed to agfolder.png, and it is used in dir.tpl.
6.9.03
NetBSD packages updated
I’ve been running a new version of Apache::Gallery for a while (a couple of months, actually) on my on-line photos. It has all been working well, and is easier to maintain than the old one, so I committed the changes to the NetBSD pkgsrc repository.
The complete list of packages is:
While at it, I also committed a fix for tilde expansion in rdist6, and a fix I finally managed to find for Samba DFS support for Windows XP clients.