Subject: Changes to the Packages Collection in January 1999
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Alistair G. Crooks <agc@ftp.netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-announce
Date: 02/22/1999 06:23:40
[Apologies for the lateness of this summary of changes. - agc]
Changes to the Packages Collection in January 1999
==================================================
The month of January saw Hubert's modifications to use a single
database of files, and also saw some interesting additions to the
collection, notably: Christoph's complete repository of Go games,
global, gnucash, openldap, p2c, pload, xglobe, and the
cross-compilation environments. Notable updates include: ImageMagick,
XF86Setup, ddd, Thorsten's untiring updates to fetchmail, glib/gtk,
gnome, guavac, lesstif, pilot-link, postgresql, samba, skill and
squid-current. I must also thank David Brownlee for providing me
with a Perl script to help produce this summary. As always, the
complete and current list of changes to the packages collection
can be found in:
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html
Alistair G. Crooks
21st February 1999.
Modifications to the Packages Collection itself
===============================================
Added code to pkg_add and pkg_create to maintain a database
(``pkgdb'') with mappings of which file belongs to
which pkg, and enable pkg_info to query it with
the -F switch (which tells it to expect a filename
instead of a package name). A pkg_admin utility was
added to (re)build the pkgdb from scratch - for
migrating from old non-pkgdb-pkg_* tools.
[hubertf 1999-01-19]
Added "check" command to pkg_admin to allow checking of pkgs'
files against their MD5 checksum. [hubertf 1999-01-19]
Additions to the Packages Collection
====================================
Added XmHTML-1.1.5 [mellon 1999-01-22]
Motif-based HTML Widget library
Added baduki-0.2 [bad 1999-01-30]
a Go playing program based on xamigo
Added cgoban-1.9.2 [bad 1999-01-30]
the complete goban. A Go server client and sgf viewer/editor.
Added cross-netbsd-powerpc-1.3.0.0 [tv 1999-01-05]
Cross-compile environment for NetBSD/powerpc
Added cross-netbsd-sparc64-1.3.0.0 [tv 1999-01-05]
Cross-compile environment for NetBSD/sparc64
Added fort77-1.14a [frueauf 1999-01-14]
the driver for f2c, a fortran to C translator
Added freedom-1.8a [bad 1999-01-30]
a Go playing program based on GNU go
Added gaim-19981231 [hubertf 1999-01-22]
gtk-based client for AOL's Instant Messenger chat system
Added global-3.42 [abs 1999-01-08]
Source code tag system including web browser output
Added gnucash-1.1.25 [mellon 1999-01-22]
a personal double-entry accounting program
Added gtkglarea-1.1 [hubertf 1999-01-20]
OpenGL/Mesa widget for GTK+ GUI toolkit
Added gtksql-0.2 [frueauf 1999-01-04]
a query tool for PostgreSQL written with GTK.
Added moria-5.5.2 [simonb 1999-01-24]
A Rogue-like game with a different sense of scale than Rogue.
Added netcdf-3.4 [frueauf 1999-01-14]
a library for array-oriented data access.
Added nmap-2.03 [hubertf 1999-01-15]]
Network/port scanner with OS detection
Added ntesla-1.7 [frueauf 1999-01-17]
tesla coil design program.
Added openldap-1.1.2 [hwr 1999-01-07]
A lightweight directory access protocol server and client package
Added p2c-1.20 [jwise 1999-01-30]
Pascal to C compiler (translates Pascal to C).
Added p5-HTML-Parser 2.22 [kim 1999-01-11]
perl5 module to parse HTML text documents
Added pload-0.9.1 added [hubertf 1999-01-06]
PPP monitor for X11 monitoring totals and current in/out rates.
Added recode-3.4 [kleink 1999-01-25]
Convert files between character sets and usages.
Added swig-1.1p5 [mellon 1999-01-14]
Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator
Added vfu-1.41 [hubertf 1999-01-27]
Small, handy, easy-to-use file manager for UNIX/Linux.
Added web500gw-2.1b3 [hwr 1999-01-08]
A WWW to ldap gateway.
Added wmmail-0.62 [tron 1999-01-23]
xbiff like "mail-checker" for WindowMaker
Added xglobe-0.1 [hubertf 1999-01-04]
Displays the earth as seen from space on your X Desktop, similar to xearth.
Added xskat-3.0 [frueauf 1999-01-07]
Play the card game Skat.
Added xtermset-0.1 [hubertf 1999-01-02]
Change things like foreground color, size etc. on an xterm
Added xtraceroute-0.8.12 [hubertf 1999-01-20]
Graphical version of traceroute, which traces the route IP packets go
Updated packages in the Packages Collection
===========================================
Updated ImageMagick to 4.1.7 [tron 1999-01-02]
a package for display and interactive manipulation of images
Updated XF86Setup to 3.3.3.1 [tron 1999-01-22]
Graphical configuration tool for XFree86.
Updated autoconf to 2.13 [frueauf 1999-01-06]
Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms
Updated cross-i386-msdosdjgpp to 2.02[.0] [tv 1999-01-04]
Cross-compile environment for MS-DOS on 386 and higher.
Updated ddd to 3.1.3 [frueauf 1999-01-07]
Data Display Debugger -- a common graphical front-end for GDB/DBX/XDB
Updated f2c to 19980913 [frueauf 1999-01-14]
Fortran to C compiler (translates fortran to C).
Updated fetchmail to 4.7.3 [frueauf 1999-01-02]
Updated fetchmail to 4.7.4 [frueauf 1999-01-06]
Updated fetchmail to 4.7.5 [frueauf 1999-01-10]
batch mail retrieval/forwarding utility for pop2, pop3, apop, imap.
Updated glib to 1.1.12 [tron 1999-01-16]
Some useful routines for C programming.
Updated gnome-core to 0.99.0 [tron 1999-01-02]
Updated gnome-core to 0.99.3.1 [tron 1999-01-16]
Base component of GNU Network Object Management Environment
Updated gnome-libs to 0.99.3 [tron 1999-01-16]
libaries for the GNU Network Object Model Environment
Updated gnuplot to 3.7 [hubertf 1999-01-25]
gnuplot is a nice plotting utility.
Updated gtk+ to 1.1.12 [tron 1999-01-16]
The gimp toolkit. Libraries for building X11 user interfaces.
Updated guavac to 1.2 [tv 1999-01-09]
A free compiler for the Java language
Updated imlib to 1.9.0 [tron 1999-01-16]
an image manipulation library for X11.
Updated lesstif to 0.87.1 [frueauf 1999-01-13]
API compatible clone of the Motif toolkit.
Updated libgtop to 0.99.0 [tron 1999-01-02]
Updated libgtop to 0.99.2 [tron 1999-01-16]
library to retrieve system information, used in GNOME.
Updated lsof to 4.39 [frueauf 1999-01-01]
Lists information about open files.
Updated mutt to 0.95.1 [tron 1999-01-04]
text-based MIME mail client with PGP support
Updated openldap to 1.1.4 [hwr 1999-01-27]
A lightweight directory access protocol server and client package
Updated p5-libwww to 5.36 [kim 1999-01-11]
perl5 library for WWW access.
Updated pilot-link to 0.9.0 [simonb 1999-01-20]
Tools to talk to the 3Com Pilot PDA
Updated pload to v0.9.2 [hubertf 1999-01-15]]
PPP monitor for X11 monitoring totals and current in/out rates.
Updated postgresql to 6.4.2 [frueauf 1999-01-04]
a robust, next generation, object-relational DBMS
Updated samba2 to 2.0.0 [bouyer 1999-01-21]
A LanManager(R)-compatible server suite for Unix
Updated scheme48 to 0.52 [jonb 1999-01-19]
The Scheme Underground's implementation of R4RS.
Updated skill to 3.7.6 [kim 1999-01-04]
Updated skill to 3.7.7. Fixes segfaults on BSD 4.4 -derived
systems (related to getting the number of signals right).
Adds support for SIGPWR on NetBSD. [kim 1999-01-05]
send signals to processes given user names, ttys, commands, or pids
Updated squid-current to 2.1.PATCH2+memory-leak patch [bad 1999-01-08]
Post-Harvest_cached WWW proxy cache and accelerator
Updated tgif to 4.0.9 [frueauf 1999-01-24]
Full featured X11 drawing program.
Updated windowmaker to 0.50.2 [tron 1999-01-16]
This window manager is a GNUStep-compliant NeXTStep clone.
Updated wm-themes to 0.50.x [tron 1999-01-16]
Renamed wm-themes to wmthemes [tron 1999-01-23]
Themes for the window manager WindowMaker.
Updated xglobe to 0.2 [hubertf 1999-01-20]
Displays the earth as seen from space on your X Desktop, similar to xearth.
Updated xscreensaver to 3.07 [frueauf 1999-01-06]
a screen saver and locker for the X window system.
Updated xtermset to V0.2 [hubertf 1999-01-08]
Change things like foreground color, size etc. on an xterm
Updated xwrits to 2.7.3 [frueauf 1999-01-17]
A wrist break reminder for prevention of repetitive stress injuries.
Updated zircon to 1.18.205 [frueauf 1999-01-06]
an X11 interface to Internet Relay Chat.
Updated zope-mysql to 1.1.2 [tsarna 1999-01-09]
Zope Database Adaptor for MySQL