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1.6     ! joerg       1: # $NetBSD: NEWS,v 1.5 2008/04/13 13:24:16 tnn Exp $
1.1       tnn         2:
                      3: PKGSRC NEWS
                      4: ===========
                      5:
                      6:   This file contains information about important infrastructural changes in
                      7:   pkgsrc. The intended readers are the pkgsrc developers as well as anyone
                      8:   tracking pkgsrc-current.
                      9:
1.6     ! joerg      10: buildlink3.mk layout changed [joerg 2009-03-20]
        !            11:        The buildlink3.mk files have been reorganized to reduce
        !            12:        redundant parsing for deeply nested buildlink3 trees.
        !            13:        The createbuildlink package has been updated to create
        !            14:        the new format.
        !            15:
1.5       tnn        16: PLIST_VARS introduced [jlam 20080413]
                     17:        PLIST_VARS is a simpler way to do conditional PLIST entries.
                     18:        The old method of doing e.g. PLIST_SUBST+= FOO="@comment " can
                     19:        now be done by unconditionally setting PLIST_VARS+=foo and
                     20:        conditionally setting PLIST.foo=yes. This will result in substitution
                     21:        of ${PLIST.foo} in the PLIST with either "" or "@comment ".
                     22:
1.3       rillig     23: SKIP_PORTABILITY_CHECK is obsolete [rillig 20080220]
                     24:        After being deprecated for about 16 months, this early misdesign
                     25:        has finally been obsoleted and removed from pkgsrc.
1.1       tnn        26:
1.4       rillig     27: Check for stripped/unstripped binaries [rillig 20080213]
                     28:        A new check has been added in mk/check/check-stripped.mk to
                     29:        assure that the installed binaries conform to the setting of the
                     30:        INSTALL_UNSTRIPPED variable. It is not enabled by default due to
                     31:        lack of testing.
                     32:
1.1       tnn        33: OpenSSL update [tnn 20080118]
                     34:        OpenSSL in pkgsrc switched from the 0.9.7 to the 0.9.8 branch. To
                     35:        accomodate for this, 596 packages dependent on openssl had their
                     36:        revisions bumped.
                     37:
                     38: pkgsrc-2007Q4 released [agc 20080105]
                     39:        A new stable branch was released. Read the announcement at:
                     40:        http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2008/01/05/0000.html
                     41:
                     42: Simplifying meta-packages [rillig 20071219]
                     43:        The variable META_PACKAGE was introduced. This simplifies creation
                     44:        and maintenance of packages that do not install files.
1.2       reed       45:
                     46: Replace a package with different name [gdt 20071107]
                     47:        The variable OLDNAME was introduced for "make replace" to
                     48:        replace a package with a name other than the new one, via
                     49:        "make replace OLDNAME=oldpkgname".  Read the announcement at:
                     50:        http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2007/11/07/0002.html
1.1       tnn        51:
                     52: pkgsrc-2007Q3 released [agc 20071015]
                     53:        A new stable branch was released. Read the announcement at:
                     54:        http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2007/10/15/0000.html
                     55:
                     56: Features framework [jlam 20070907]
                     57:        A "system features" framework has been added. It will be used to
                     58:        automatically supply missing "basic" headers and libraries for old
                     59:        systems. This is supported through the USE_FEATURES variable.
                     60:
                     61: X.org 6.9 removed [joerg 20070817]
                     62:        monolithic X.org 6.9 was removed from pkgsrc. It was obsoleted by the
                     63:        modular X.org (7.x) packages. Transitioning users should remove all old
                     64:        X.org packages and set X11_TYPE=modular in mk.conf.
                     65:
                     66: Emulator framework [jlam 20070729]
                     67:        A new emulator framework has been added. This will handle all
                     68:        binary-only packages that require emulation on the native OS.
                     69:        Please see pkgsrc/mk/emulator/README.
                     70:
                     71: audit-packages merged with pkg_install [adrianp 20070714]
                     72:        The utility for auditing installed packages for security problems,
                     73:        audit-packages, has been rewritten in C. It is now part of the
                     74:        pkgtools/pkg_install package.
                     75:
                     76: pkgsrc-2007Q2 released [agc 20070701]
                     77:        A new stable branch was released. Read the announcement at:
                     78:        http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2007/07/01/0000.html
                     79:
                     80: New framework for bulk builds [joerg 20070619]
                     81:        pbulk, the new automated pkgsrc bulk build framework was imported.
                     82:
                     83: pkgsrc-2007Q1 released [agc 20070419]
                     84:        A new stable branch was released. Read the announcement at:
                     85:        http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2007/04/19/0000.html
                     86:
                     87: pkgsrc-2006Q4 released [agc 20070104]
                     88:        A new stable branch was released. Read the announcement at:
                     89:        http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2007/01/04/0000.html
                     90:
                     91: modular X.org imported [joerg 20061114]
                     92:        The modular X.org packages were imported.
                     93:
                     94: pkgsrc-2006Q3 released [agc 20061001]
                     95:        A new stable branch was released. Read the announcement at:
                     96:        http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2006/10/01/0000.html