This document summarizes the past year of development for pkgsrc, the package management system for Unix-like operating systems. It provides an overview of pkgsrc support for various platforms, notable package updates in areas like databases, languages, and desktop environments. It also discusses pkgsrc infrastructure improvements and answers common questions and issues around using and developing for pkgsrc.

1. pkgsrc 2010
the record of the past year
OBATA Akio
Jul 3, 2010
JNUG NetBSD BOF 2010

2. What is pkgsrc?
Package once, use anywhere!
Package management system for Unix-like
OSes
Default package system for NetBSD and
DragonFlyBSD
Quarterly Stable release (2010Q2)
Binary pakcage / build & install from
source
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3. Supported Platforms
1997 NetBSD
1999 Solaris, Linux
2001 Darwin
2002 FreeBSD, OpenBSD, IRIX
2003 BSD/OS, AIX
2004 Interix, DragonFlyBSD, OSF/1
2007 HP-UX, QNX
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4. Haiku (wip)
R1 Alpha2 out!
something different
No /usr !
/boot/develop/headers/{3rdparty,posix}/...
/etc/{passwd,group}, useradd, but?
no hard link support (BFS)
unreasonable for default package system?
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5. Minix3 (wip)
GSoC2010 (for Minix)
replace packman (current package system)
Need improvements of base OS
lack of library, functions
limitations of commands
differ of commands behaviour
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6. SUA 6.x (Interix-6.x)
32bit only (gcc)
better than SFU (Interix-3.x)?
lib & tools from *BSD?
It worked!
apache22, php5...
hung up bmake with -j 4
Want information about 5.x
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7. Other platforms
MacOS X Snow Leopard support
ABI=64?
No imake
SSD/Linux
A/UX?
Cygwin?
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8. Developers
Organization
Handles
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9. Organization
pkgsrc-pmc@
Project Management Comittee
releng-pkgsrc@
Release Engineering Group
pkgsrc-security@
pkgsrc Security Team
packages@
people who handle pkgsrc
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10. Handles
pkg-bug-handler@
on call bug handler (assign, fix)
{darwin,dfly,freebsd,interix,linux,solaris}-
pkg-people@
for each platforms
No Port Maintainer!
pkgsrc-p5-people@
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11. Infrastructure
Bulk Build
Staged Installation
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12. Bulk Build
{i386,amd64}-nb{4,5}.netbsd.org
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13. Staged Installation
step
install files in DESTDIR
create binary package
install binary package
PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT
no / destdir / user-destdir
Now it's default for developers
USE_DESTDIR=yes
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14. Notable Changes of Packages
What's up?
Topics
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15. pkgsrc/databases
PostgerSQL
8.1 removed
8.4 imported
MySQL
5.1 added
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16. pkgsrc/lang
gcc44
openjdk7 added (-icedtea-plugin)
perl5 5.12 testing
Python
2.3 removed, 2.6 default
3.1 in wip/python31
PHP
php53 added, php4 removed
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17. pkgsrc/inputmethods
SCIM imported
iBus (after 2010Q2)
up for modern packages?
mozc?
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18. TeX
teTeX => texlive 2009
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19. Desktop Environments
Gnome-2.30 (wip)
from KDE3/qt3 to KDE4/qt4
from Xfce3 to Xfce4
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20. GNATS
Current open PR
pkgsrc - 1204
pkg-manager - 548
FreeBSD ports - 903
OpenBSD ports - 0
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21. Misc
ここで小ネタをいくつか
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22. Where is 'GIT'?
git はどこにあるの？
git ってパッケージを入れてみたら、ファイラ
だった
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23. This is GIT!
devel/scmgit です
文句は後からそういう名前をつけた人に言っ
てください。
あちらのほうが gunit に名前を変えたっぽ
い。
wip/git はまた別物
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24. Subversion is too huge!
subversion 入れたら、Apache まで付いてきた
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25. Do you really want the whole
Subversion?
必要なものだけ入れましょう
基本は subversion-base
各種言語 bindigs
WebDAV -> ap2-subversion
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26. libexpat.so: not found
install from xbase
X11_TYPE=modular
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27. XXX from Linux binary is too old
Need to update COMPAT_LINUX
recently patch provided
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28. How to use SCIM?
GTK_IMMODULE=scim はだめ？
なんだか動作がおかしいような？
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29. It is the SCIM!
scim-bridge を使う
安定度はそれなり
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30. How to switch IM?
input method 入れたけど
XMODIFIERS?
GTK_IM_MODULE?
QT_IM_MODULE?
何を起動?
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31. How to switch IM...?
得に何の手立ても用意していません
何か標準的な手順はないの？
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32. How to watch youtube?
Youtube 見たいんだけど
firefox
adobe-flash-plugin
libflashsupport
x86 だけですけどね
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33. How to watch videos?
flash じゃない動画を見たい
totem
totem-browser-plugin
gst-*
どの plugin?
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34. Suggested Desktop Environment
とりあえず何入れよう?
meta-pkgs/desktop-gnome
Desktop NetBSD project
KDE
kde + qt option?
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35. End
fin
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