svn commit: r46953 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Jul 12 18:41:15 UTC 2015

Author: wblock
Date: Sun Jul 12 18:41:14 2015
New Revision: 46953
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46953

Log:
  Add Sevan Janiyan <venture37 at geeklan.co.uk>'s report on pkgsrc.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml	Sun Jul 12 11:28:44 2015	(r46952)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml	Sun Jul 12 18:41:14 2015	(r46953)
@@ -87,8 +87,10 @@
     <title>New Documentation Committers</title>
 
     <contact>
-      <person>&os; Documentation Engineering Team</person>
-      <email>doceng at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      <person>
+	<name>&os; Documentation Engineering Team</name>
+	<email>doceng at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
     </contact>
 
     <links>
@@ -119,8 +121,10 @@
     <title>Documentation Working Group at BSDCan</title>
 
     <contact>
-      <person>&os; Documentation Team</person>
-      <email>freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      <person>
+	<name>&os; Documentation Team</name>
+	<email>freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
     </contact>
 
     <links>
@@ -187,4 +191,61 @@
     </help>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='misc'>
+    <title>&os; Support in <tt>pkgsrc</tt></title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Sevan</given>
+	  <common>Janiyan</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>venture37 at geeklan.co.uk</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://www.pkgsrc.org">pkgsrc home page</url>
+      <url href="http://bulktracker.appspot.com">BulkTracker - Track bulk build status</url>
+      <url href="https://www.geeklan.co.uk/?tag=pkgsrc">My blog posts on pkgsrc</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p><tt>pkgsrc</tt> is a fork of &os; ports from the NetBSD
+	project with a focus on portability and multi platform
+	support.  At present, pkgsrc supports building packages on 23
+	different platforms from a single tree, including &os;</p>
+
+      <p>While <tt>pkgsrc</tt> is not a replacement for ports in most
+	use cases, it holds a unique position in mixed platform
+	environments where software ideally needs to be the same
+	version across the board and should built in a consistent
+	manner, saving the user from having to resort to manually
+	building programs or re-implementing a mechanism to do so.</p>
+
+      <p>With the recent
+	<a href="http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2015/07/06/msg021778.html">2015Q2 release</a>
+	earlier this month, it is now possible to generate over 14000
+	packages on FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE (up from 12800 last
+	quarter).</p>
+
+      <p>Work is in progress to add
+	<a href="https://vimeo.com/132766052">pkgng support to pkgsrc.</a></p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Improve platform support to skip libusb on &os; where
+	libusb is bundled in base.  This is causing the biggest
+	breakage at the moment.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Expand the effort to -STABLE and -CURRENT branches and, if
+	  possible, architectures other than AMD64.  Shell access
+	  welcome (without privilege is sufficient).</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
 </report>
