Subject: Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in October 1999
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Alistair G. Crooks <agc@ftp.netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-announce
Date: 11/09/1999 02:38:29
Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in October 1999
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The NetBSD Packages Collection celebrated its second birthday in
October, and it also passed the 1000 package mark during that month -
thanks to everyone who has helped make this possible. We also managed
to find and fix many bugs in the Packages Collection itself, in
preparation for a forthcoming CD.
We made changes this month so that it's possible to use real Motif
libraries with pkgsrc, as well as lesstif ones, and also made the
calculation of checksums on the patch files more efficient and
comprehensive. New packages added to the collection include:
asclock, cfengine, crack, fortify, gif2png, jitterbug, kde audio and
toys packages, lavaps, libungif, lukemftp, mp, nqc (Mindstorms-fans,
please note), sh-utils, speakfreely, wmx, xbatt, and xmindpath. The
HFS (Apple Macintosh) packages have been reorganised. Updated packages
include: arena, asapm, bochs, catdoc, elm, enlightenment and related
packages, fnlib, freetype, gd, gensolpkg, gif2png, giflib, gindent,
glib, gnome (thanks, as ever, Matthias), gnumeric, htdig, imlib,
libglade, libslang, libwww, libxml, magicpoint, mtv, plotutils, pth,
ted (thanks, Dan), tgif, tiff, tkinfo, windowmaker, and xscreensaver.
There were many conflicting votes for "Package of the Month" - Hubert
Feyrer suggested lavaps, an interesting variation on load monitors,
and Steve Woodford recommended ethereal, a very impressive network
analyser, which has been around for a while but is still incredibly
useful. Whilst my personal vote goes to ethereal as well, (I find
lavaps "cute", but not very useful), I'd also like to put in a word
for enlightenment, and, specifically, eterm, which I have found myself
installing and using on all my machines.
Alistair G. Crooks
Tue Nov 9 07:11:23 GMT 1999
Changes to the packages collection itself
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bsd.pkg.mk: USE_MOTIF is able to recognize a real Motif (not Lesstif)
installation again [tron 1999-10-06]
bsd.pkg.mk: Make empty patch-sum file after the last patch
is removed. Don't update patch-sum file unless the
patches actually changed. [fredb 1999-10-14]
Packages Added to the NetBSD Packages Collection
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Added asclock-gtk-2.1.10 [jlam 1999-10-07]
dockable clock and calendar with themes for GTK+
Added asclock-xlib-2.0.11 [jlam 1999-10-07]
dockable clock and calendar with themes for X11
Added cfengine-1.5.2 [abs 1999-10-10]
Automate configuration and administration of large systems
Added crack [bouyer 1999-10-04]
The "Sensible" Unix Password Cracker
Added dgpsip-1.28 [wennmach 1999-10-30]
Differential GPS over IP communication device
Added dx-4.0.7 and dxsamples-4.0 [drochner 1999-10-01]
Open Visualization Data Explorer
Added dxsamples-4.0 [drochner 1999-10-01]
Sample data for Open Visualization Data Explorer
Added egtk-0.3.3 [jlam 1999-10-13]
Eiffel/GTK+ interface for SmallEiffel
Added fortify-1.4.5 [jlam 1999-10-27]
patches Netscape binary to provide 128-bit cryptography
Added genpasswd-1.5 [kim 1999-10-04]
Random password generator.
Added gif2png-1.1.1 [rh 1999-10-15]
convert GIF files to PNG.
Added gnome-users-guide-1.0.71 [rh 1999-10-10]
User documentation for GNOME
Added gobo-eiffel-1.5 [jlam 1999-10-13]
portable Eiffel structure libraries and tools
Added irrd-1.5-beta-19990924 [kim 1999-10-28]
Internet Routing Registry Daemon.
Added japhar-0.08 [agc 1999-10-28]
a Java Virtual Machine, currently JDK 1.1.5-level.
Added jikes-1.06 [agc 1999-10-19]
a Java source to byte-code compiler
Added jitterbug-1.6.2 [wennmach 1999-10-05]
a web-oriented bug-tracking tool
Added jwhois-2.1 [kim 1999-10-05]
Configurable WHOIS client.
Added kdemultimedia-1.1.2 [drochner 1999-10-01]
KDE audio tools.
Added kdetoys-1.1.2 [drochner 1999-10-01]
Toys for the KDE integrated X11 desktop
Added king-1.00 [sakamoto 1999-10-11]
The king of translator POWER+ (Linux version)
Added lavaps-1.8 [hubertf 1999-10-31]
Lava lamp of currently running processes
Added libghttp 1.0.4 [tron 1999-10-23]
GNOME http client library
Added libhfs-3.2.6 [fredb 1999-10-16]
library for accessing HFS (Apple Macintosh) volumes
Added librep-0.7 [agc 1999-10-29]
an Emacs Lisp-like runtime library, interpreter, compiler and VM.
Added libungif-4.1.0 [jlam 1999-10-09]
Tools and library routines for working with GIF images.
Added logtime-1.0 [kim 1999-10-01]
Prints date and time in a standard format.
Added lukemftp-1.0 [agc 1999-10-28]
the enhanced ftp client in NetBSD
Added mp-3.4.0 [kim 1999-10-28]
PostScript pretty printer.
Added nqc-2.0.1 [nathanw 1999-10-11]
Development system for the Lego Mindstorms RCX embedded computer.
Added p5-nkf-1.7 [sakamoto 1999-10-11]
Perl library for Network Kanji code conversion Fileter
Added poptop-1.0.0 [dbj 1999-10-08]
A PPTP server which can support Microsoft VPN clients.
Added ppp-mppe-2.3.9 [dbj 1999-10-08]
PPP daemon and LKM with MPPE - Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption
Added py-postgresql-2.4 [jlam 1999-10-04]
PostgreSQL interface for Python
Added rollemup-1.0 [sakamoto 1999-10-28]
Multi Ball, Player, Platform, Media, Cool Pinball game
Added roller-0.9 [kim 1999-10-01]
roll log files
Added sh-utils-2.0 [kim 1999-10-01]
GNU shell utilities.
Added speakfreely-7.1 [jlam 1999-10-10]
Internet "phone" for UNIX
Added speakfreely-crypto-7.1 [jlam 1999-10-10]
Internet "phone" for UNIX with cryptography
Added vilearn-1.0 [abs 1999-10-29]
online vi tutorial, from basic to advanced
Added wmx-5.0 [fredb 1999-10-01]
another X11 window manager based on wm2
Added xarchon-0.42 [hubertf 1999-10-15]
Chess-like strategy game with battle options
Added xbatt-1.3pr1 [hubertf 1999-10-31]
Displays battery status of your notebook via APM
Added xhfs-3.2.6 [fredb 1999-10-16]
Tk GUI + Tcl Shell for accessing HFS volumes
Added xmindpath-19990930 [jlam 1999-10-27]
MindPath PocketPoint user-level driver for X11
Added xteddy-1.1 [hubertf 1999-10-15]
Xteddy is a cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop.
Updated packages
================
Updated arena to 0.3.62 [fredb 1999-10-14]
Experimental HTML 3 browser, supports math and style sheets.
Updated asapm to 2.7 [jlam 1999-10-06]
Laptop battery status display for X11.
Updated atari800 to 0.9.9a [garbled 1999-10-21]
Atari 8-bit computer, 5200 console emulator
Updated bochs to 991023a [drochner 1999-10-25]
an i386 machine emulator capable of running dos/windows
Updated catdoc to 0.91.1 [agc 1999-10-21]
reads MS-Word file and puts out its content as plain text.
Updated chkpt to 1.7.1 [wennmach 1999-10-15]
A user-level checkpointing library
Updated clusterit to 1.3 [garbled 1999-10-14]
A clustering package for unix
Updated elm to V2.4ME+54 [hubertf 1999-10-25]
ELM Mail User Agent
Updated emiclock to 2.0.2 [minoura 1999-10-12]
Analog clock with image in the middle
Updated enlightenment to 0.16.0 [jlam 1999-10-27]
Updated enlightenment to 0.16.1 [jlam 1999-10-28]
Window manager for X
Updated esound to 0.2.15 [tron 1999-10-23]
the Enlightened sound daemon
Updated eterm to 0.8.9 [jlam 1999-10-27]
Enlightened terminal emulator for the X Window System
Updated fltk to 1.0.6 [jlam 1999-10-29]
The Fast Light Tool Kit
Updated fnlib to 0.5 [jlam 1999-10-27]
color font rendering library for X11R6
Updated freetype to 1.2 [jlam 1999-10-27]
TrueType font rendering engine and library API
Updated gd to 1.7.3 [jlam 1999-10-31]
graphics library for fast PNG creation
Updated gensolpkg to 1.4 [agc 1999-10-06]
a utility to generate a Solaris package
Updated gif2png to 1.2.2 [agc 1999-10-28]
convert GIF files to PNG.
Updated giflib to 4.1.0 [jlam 1999-10-09]
Tools and library routines for working with GIF images.
Updated gindent to 2.2.2 [jlam 1999-10-01]
GNU version of pretty-printer for C source code.
Updated glib to 1.2.6 [tron 1999-10-23]
Some useful routines for C programming.
Updated gmc to 4.5.40 [tron 1999-10-23]
Gnome version of Midnight Commander, a free Norton Commander Clone
Updated gnome-core to 1.0.53 [tron 1999-10-23]
Base component of GNU Network Object Management Environment
Updated gnome-libs 1.0.53 [tron 1999-10-23]
Libaries for the GNU Network Object Model Environment
Updated gnome-pim to 1.0.50 [rh 1999-10-09]
A Personal Information Manager for GNOME.
Updated gnome-print to 0.9 [rh 1999-10-10]
A prototype implementation of the Gnome Printing Architecture
Updated gnumeric to 0.38 [rh 1999-10-10]
A powerful and easy to use spreadsheet program from the GNOME project
Updated gtkstep to 1.9 [jlam 1999-10-08]
GTK theme-engine to yield a NEXTSTEP(tm) look and feel
Updated htdig to 3.1.3 [fredb 1999-10-05]
WWW indexing and searching system.
Updated imlib to 1.9.7 [tron 1999-10-24]
Updated imlib to 1.9.8 [jlam 1999-10-27]
image manipulation library for X11
Updated ja-gawk to 3.0.4 [sakamoto 1999-10-11]
GNU awk + multi-byte extension.
Updated ja-mh to 6.8.4_JP_3.03 [sakamoto 1999-10-29]
Rand MH mail handling system + Japanese patches
Updated libaudiofile to 0.1.9 [tron 1999-10-23]
a sound library for SGI audio file.
Updated libglade to 0.7 [rh 1999-10-10]
A runtime interpreter for GLADE gui files
Updated libgtop to 1.0.5 [tron 1999-10-23]
library to retrieve system information, used in GNOME.
Updated libproplist to 0.9.1 [tron 1999-10-05]
GNUstep/OPENSTEP property lists compatibility library
Updated libslang to 1.3.9 [mjl 1999-10-16]
Routines for rapid alpha-numeric terminal applications development
Updated libwww to 5.2.8 [deberg 1999-10-08]
The W3C Reference Library.
Updated libxml to 1.7.3 [rh 1999-10-10]
An XML parser, mainly used by the GNOME project.
Updated magicpoint to 1.0.6a [jlam 1999-10-27]
an X11 based presentation tool
Updated maketool to 0.4 [fredb 1999-10-13]
a graphical front end to GNU make.
Updated mc to 4.5.40 [tron 1999-10-23]
Midnight Commander, a free Norton Commander Clone
Updated mpg123-0.59r to use fixed-point on arm32 CPUs.
[simonb 1999-10-12]
Command-line player for mpeg layer 1, 2 and 3 audio
Updated mtv to 1.1.0.3 [tron 1999-10-04]
MPEG Video+Audio and VCD Player
Updated p5-GD to 1.22 [jlam 1999-10-31]
Perl5 interface to gd graphics library
Updated pilotmgr to 1.107p1 [tron 1999-10-23]
synchronize databases on any 3Com Palm device.
Updated plotutils to 2.3 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
Programs and library for plotting scientific data.
Updated pth to 1.1.6 [rh 1999-10-07]
GNU Portable Thread library
Updated roller to 1.0 [kim 1999-10-04]
roll log files
Updated slrn to 0.9.5.7 [mjl 1999-10-16]
A powerful threaded newsreader, that is highly customizable.
Updated spice to 3f5.1 [dmcmahill 1999-10-01]
A general-purpose circuit simulation program
Updated suck to 4.2.2 [agc 1999-10-21]
Feed a local news server without a dedicated newsfeed.
Updated ted to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
X11 based WordPad-like word processor.
Updated ted-cs to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
Czech spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor.
Updated ted-da to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
Danish spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor.
Updated ted-de to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
German spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor.
Updated ted-en-gb to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
UK English spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor.
Updated ted-en-us to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
US English spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor.
Updated ted-es to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
Spanish spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor.
Updated ted-fr to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
French spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor.
Updated ted-it to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
Italian spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor.
Updated ted-nl to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
Dutch spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor.
Updated ted-no to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
Norwegian spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor.
Updated ted-pt to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
Portuguese spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor.
Updated ted-sv to 2.6 [dmcmahill 1999-10-10]
Swedish spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor.
Updated tgif to 4.1.21 [drochner 1999-10-01]
Updated tgif to 4.1.22 [dmcmahill 1999-10-13]
Fully-featured X11 drawing program.
Updated tiff to 3.5.2 [jlam 1999-10-08]
library and tools for reading and writing TIFF data files
Updated tkinfo to 2.5 [fredb 1999-10-08]
Tk script to read and display GNU "info" files
Updated windowmaker to 0.61.1 [tron 1999-10-05]
GNUStep-compliant NEXTSTEP(tm) window manager clone
Updated wmakerconf to 2.3 [jlam 1999-10-08]
Gtk+ based configuration tool for Window Maker
Updated xarchon to 0.43 [hubertf 1999-10-29]
Chess-like strategy game with battle options
Updated xfce to 3.1.2 [jwise 1999-10-18]
Lightweight desktop environment with a look and feel similar to CDE
Updated xgraph to 11.3.2.9 [sakamoto 1999-10-29]
a tool to draw a graph on an X11 display.
Updated xscreensaver to 3.18 [frueauf 1999-10-18]
Screen saver and locker for the X window system
Updated xvile to 8.3 [agc 1999-10-21]
VI Like Emacs, X11 version -- a fully "X aware" vi work-alike
Other changes to the packages collection
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Split hfsutils-3.2.6 into libhfs and xhfs, and modified
hfsutils to use libhfs [fredb 1999-10-16]