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GNU Screen version 4.2.1 is now available in pkgsrc as misc/screen. Enjoy! (2)
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SourceForge has improved their CVS infrastructure. Instead of checking out all of pkgsrc-wip from scratch, you could just fix the already checked out tree. (more…)
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Updated Swish-e to version 2.4.3 in pkgsrc as www/swish-e. Notable changes: (more…)
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Updated Anomy Sanitizer to version 1.76 in pkgsrc as mail/anomy-sanitizer. Notable changes: (more…)
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I’ve gotten back to pkgsrc work through rebuilding everything on my development system. I’ve found that some of “my” packages have been changed while I’ve been busy with other things. The IceS MP3 streamer (audio/ices-mp3) wouldn’t even compile anymore with the embedded Perl option enabled. I use a Perl module called mstream to keep my personal radio stream going. I’ve reverted the offending change and all is good again.
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I took a few minutes to upgrade leafnode to version 1.11.2 as news/leafnode to address a denial of service vulnerability. Update your pkgsrc tree to get the new version.
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I’ve updated postgrey to version 1.21 as mail/postgrey in pkgsrc due to a denial-of-service vulnerability.
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After some head scratching I stumbled on a workaround for making the php-imap package compile again (PR/29962). I couldn’t have deployed a new version of PHP without the IMAP extension, yet an upgrade was needed due to denial-of-service vulnerabilities (CAN-2005-0524 and CAN-2005-0525).
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Charlie Allom provided the solution for a nuisance that kept Apache::Gallery from working since the last imlib2 upgrade in pkgsrc. Closed my own PR pkg/29054 for www/p5-Apache-Gallery.

The Little Brother’s Database

Written late at night in English • Tags: ,

Antoine Reilles submitted a package for the Little Brother’s Database (lbdb) in PR pkg/29164. I’ve had lbdb in my reminders for quite some time, but never got around to packaging it. I tweaked Antoine’s package a bit, and now I have committed it to pkgsrc as databases/lbdb. Thanks, Antoine!

The Little Brother’s Database provides a lookup interface for mail addresses for several data sources. It can retrieve data from its own database, Emacs bbdb, abook, LDAP and even MacOS X addressbooks, and provide the results to external programs such as the Mutt mail reader.