tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49548622701754900532024-09-01T22:41:41.280+02:00All along the Watchtower...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-17094181221879944402012-01-18T14:49:00.001+01:002012-01-18T14:49:58.997+01:00

We are investigating the Vala bindings for XBPS, but to make it fully work Portable proplib must be supported first. I started playing with `vala-gen-introspect` that created the .gi file required to create the final .vapi file with the Vala bindings; but after making the resulting vapi file couldn't compile a test code... After some time I decided to modify the generated .vapi file manually,

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-90223557926447347342011-12-21T10:01:00.000+01:002011-12-21T10:01:34.408+01:00

After 2 months of active development a new major release of XBPS has been released: say hello to the 0.11 version. Here's the list of changes: xbps-bin(8): it is possible now to reinstall a package even if it's installed with the '-f' option. If reinstalling the same package version, only unexistent files or files not matching its hash will be extracted. While unpacking a binary package,

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-91358026477189435922011-10-26T18:13:00.001+02:002011-10-27T21:35:54.740+02:00

A new (minor) version has been released with the following changes: libxbps: fixed multiple free(3) calls in error paths (via closedir(3)) when some virtualpkg plist file couldn't be internalized. xbps-bin(8): 'remove' with recursive flag (-R) now removes first the specified packages and puts its automatic dependencies at the tail of the array. libxbps: xbps_pkgpattern_{name,version} now return

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-10884261018425715852011-10-22T17:13:00.001+02:002011-10-22T17:14:23.681+02:00

After 3 months of active development, a new major release of XBPS has been released: say hello to the 0.10.0 version. Here's the list of changes: Fixed issue 11 "xbps-bin fails to update properly some pkgs". xbps-bin(8): the 'check' target now is able to detect if a package  was installed  manually and other packages are currently depending  on it and change its mode to

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-77605158523875821902011-05-27T10:12:00.001+02:002011-05-27T10:12:42.967+02:00

A new (minor) version has been released with the following changes: xbps-bin(8)/xbps-repo(8): more meaningful messages when a package couldn't be found in the show, show-deps and show-files targets, rather than exiting silently with only the error return value. Added three new objects for the package props.plist metadata file to specify homepage, license and build date. Minor improvements to

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After 4 months of active development, a new major release of XBPS has been released: say hello to the 0.8.0 version. Here's the list of changes: xbps-bin(8): added -A and -M options, for setting package install reason to automatic or manual. Obviously both cannot be used togeter. xbps-{bin,repo}(8): -c (cachedir) argument now is an absolute path and   not relative to the root directory

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-75664158352983043762011-01-16T17:30:00.001+01:002011-01-16T17:31:06.673+01:00

A new version was released with the following changes: Added pkg-config support and install a proplib.pc file. Merged stuff from old subversion repo, that re-added the change to emit base 10 rather than base 16 for unsigned numbers contributed by Adam Hoka. Please see http://code.google.com/p/portableproplib for more information.

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 A new version has been released with the following changes: Fixed a bug that made libxbps fail to detect properly configuration files. This made all updates in configuration files to be lost. It is now possible to properly build against an external portable proplib (with pkg-config support) and libfetch. Enabled a bunch of compiler warnings in the configure script (if supported by the

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I've just released a new version of the portable proplib implementation: 0.5.0. This version has the following changes: Synced proplib code with NetBSD HEAD, which replaces the red-black tree implementation and checks for NULL pointers passed in to the _dict/_array functions. The _zfile functions in the API are now encapsulated into its own file, that way upstream changes are merged easily. The

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-22043214866008465422010-12-28T15:15:00.000+01:002010-12-28T15:15:06.609+01:00

A new version has been released with the following changes:  Fixed some memleaks in libxbps and its clients, found by valgrind. Please see http://code.google.com/p/xbps for more information.

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-48298586337508522022010-12-23T20:19:00.000+01:002010-12-23T20:19:44.829+01:00

A new version has been released with the following changes: xbps-dgraph: fixed small build error on x86 shown in buildbot tests. libxbps: xbps_repository_pool_init(): don't loop forever if repository pkg-index.plist files cannot be internalized. libxbps: xbps_fetch_file(): set a 30 seconds timeout for transfers. xbps-repo(8): fixed the 'genindex' target for the API changes in 0.7.0. xbps-uhelper

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-64129154010400922002010-12-23T19:20:00.001+01:002010-12-23T19:51:50.994+01:00

I've spent the past two days in packaging VirtualBox 4.0.0, that was released just yesterday. The problem is that VirtualBox uses some kernel modules for the hosts and guests and I didn't want really to create a package with the binary modules hardcoding a specific kernel package version. What's the solution to this? DKMS. DKMS stands for Dynamic Kernel Modules Support, and is being used in

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-13613984339963054222010-12-19T19:53:00.000+01:002010-12-19T19:53:19.123+01:00

So a few hours ago I've just updated the xbmc package to 10.0. Some days ago I was looking for a free media center that is able to stream content to my XBOX 360 and found XBMC. What can I say about it? it's simply amazing, this version is able to install multiple add-ons to improve its capabilities, i.e for viewing youtube videos, listening streams over shoutcast, etc. Below are two screenshots

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-43595996512131466542010-12-15T16:16:00.000+01:002010-12-15T16:16:56.655+01:00

A new version has been released with the following changes: xbps-repo(8): implemented the 'find-files' target to print which packages own a file, link, directory, etc. Analogue to the one implemented in xbps-bin(8). Works for local and remote repository, fetching info on-the-fly. Fixed a typo in the configure script that broke detection of strlcat(), reported and patch provided by Min Sik Kim

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-2109384647130170742010-11-08T22:50:00.001+01:002010-11-08T22:55:14.080+01:00

For the past days (well, only Sunday to be exact) I've been coding an application to automate the generation of dot(1) graphs for installed packages with XBPS, exactly for package's metadata properties; those such as dependencies, reverse dependencies, configuration files, etc. The code is 500 LOC and generates customized dot files through properties set in a configuration plist file. I'm sorry

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-59318445295810644912010-10-31T02:20:00.002+02:002010-10-31T02:20:01.027+01:00

A new version of the X Binary Package System, also known as XBPS has been released with the following changes: libxbps: xbps_repository_unregister(): in remote repositories, also remove the pkg index file and its directory. libxbps: xbps_get_pkg_index_plist(): fixed a memleak. xbps-bin(8): modify the 'list' target to accept an optional argument to list packages in the specified state, so

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-79748831037321993302010-10-27T15:53:00.000+02:002010-10-27T15:53:21.908+02:00

A lot of updates including Linux kernel to 2.6.36, GNOME 2.32, xorg 1.9.1, etc. Here's the full changelog for this month, it can be easily taken from Mercurlal repository with the following command: $ hg log --template "{desc|firstline}\n\n" --date "2010-10-01 to 2010-10-31" Summary: sylpheed: update to 3.0.3. squashfs-tools: update to 4.1. sed: use --without-included-regex. groff: fix issues

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-42247091558048708912010-10-27T13:27:00.003+02:002010-10-27T13:39:17.012+02:00

I've been working in some missing features for the next XBPS version, and here they are:xbps-bin(8): modify the 'list' target to accept an optional argument to list packages in the specified state, so that you can list packages that need to be purged, configured and broken (will be used in the future).xbps-bin(8): added a new target 'find-files' to find which installed package(s) own a file.

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-43787352568004526802010-10-27T13:24:00.001+02:002010-10-27T13:26:29.671+02:00

A new version has just been released with the following changes:XBPS 0.6.1 - Released October 23, 2010.When replacing a package that is going to be updated in the transaction do not remove it, just overwrite its files and continue. The updated package will find that old files didn't match the SHA256 hash and will skip them. This solves the issue of new package updates requiring new

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-58196973417770339192010-06-03T10:21:00.002+02:002010-06-03T10:25:39.821+02:00

A new version has just been released with the following changes:xbps-0.6.0 (2010-06-03): Synced libfetch code with NetBSD pkgsrc, updated to 2.31. libxbps: improved xbps_get_file_hash() to mmap(2) rather than read(2) the file we have to process. With mmap'ed files the hash can be processed 5x faster than before, or even more in some cases.libxbps: switch to OpenSSL SHA256 implementation and

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-18343055525411277812010-05-17T22:33:00.003+02:002010-05-17T22:50:07.183+02:00

This week there have been a lot of changes both in packages and xbps-src and its helpers.Package upgrades:vim: updated to 239 patch level, added icons and .desktop file for gvim.initramfs-tools: merged in 0.94.4 from Debian, now hibernation works properly.xbps-casper: merged in 1.236 from Ubuntu, fixed some errors detecting filesystems.kernel: updated to 2.6.34.udev: updated to 154.xbps-mklive:

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-52651107338726516292010-05-11T16:50:00.002+02:002010-05-11T16:54:16.806+02:00

Today I had to release the XBPS utilities version 0.5.1 to fix a bug that caused some errors in packages using 'epoch' in its version string. The release plan used in XBPS is a time based release, a new version every 2 months of development.XBPS 0.5.1 - Released May 11, 2010Fixed build issues in RHEL5, Ubuntu and others distributions.libxbps: changed the epoch component in version strings to the

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-88899769170411713892010-05-02T11:08:00.004+02:002010-05-02T11:19:59.571+02:00

These days I've been working in packaging MoinMoin to create a wiki for XBPS, and two days ago that was accomplished. I created the wiki and after using it a few minutes I asked to myself: why do I have to host it? I don't currently own a domain, nor do I have a static IP and the last point, I don't want to have a server running all year.So I started looking at the free alternatives, none

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-50160684256431173152010-04-30T22:19:00.004+02:002010-04-30T22:23:56.292+02:00

The XBPS 0.5.0 version has just been released. Release notes:xbps-repo(8): fixed the 'search' target to also match patterns against its description, and not only from the package/version touple.Cleaned up the code by using the LLVM's clang static analyzer, found two possible NULL pointer dereferences in error branches and dead code.xbps-bin(8): added new flag '-p' for the 'remove' and '

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10819791893332726434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954862270175490053.post-49019589864361173152010-04-30T19:16:00.005+02:002010-04-30T19:29:18.258+02:00

This is the list of recently added packages into the x86_64 official repository for XBPS:llvm-2.7 (provides some subpkgs: clang, clang-devel, llvm-docs). The clang static analyzer helped me to found some warnings on XBPS and Portable Proplib.apache-2.2.15 with the prefork MPM. A -devel subpkg to build modules is also provided.apache-mpm-{worker,event}-2.2.15: Apache httpd binaries that provide

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