Author Archive for Martin

Martin Wilke: Stepping down from KDE, Gecko, and vbox …

Howdy Guys, Few Weeks ago i wrote that i’ve got a job offer in Kuala Lumpur, I got this Job now and unfortunately now I need now to reorder my life a bit. So first step is now to step down from KDE, Gecko and vbox teams. I am not really happy about this step but sometimes priorities goes to [...]

Martin Wilke: Kuala Lumpur first Impressionen!

Well more or less the first week is over now, It’s very hot here and we european guys need to learn here with the climate, and of course with the other timezone . The culture here is very nice and very friendly, eating is ok so far, there are also MC Donalds, Buerger King, Pizza Hut etc. we don’t [...]

Martin Wilke: Moving to Kuala Lumpur

Now that everything is alright I’d like you to inform you that I’ve got the best chance of my life! I got a job offer in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to work as a System Administrator. The plan is to move next week on Thursday, the flight is 12 hours, a long boring time That will be my [...]

Martin Wilke: Call for Testing X.org 7.5 for FreeBSD

Howdy! We’re happy to announce that Xorg 7.5 is ready for public testing. The ATI and Intel drivers were patched to work with the new server, please report any problems to us! The drivers for Vesa, NV and NVIDIA have been tested thoroughfully and seem to work fine. A note to FreeBSD 6.X users: Unfortunately you’ll have to compile gcc 4.2+ first [...]

Martin Wilke: Call for Help Xorg Team need Fresh Blood!

Howdy All, How you all know is Robert Noland our X guy but he lose most of his time for his new job and x11 is to many for one people. Robert is dealing most time with x stuff on the src site and we need now some people to help him on the ports side. Beat@ and I [...]

Martin Wilke: [CFT] KDE SC 4.4.0 for FreeBSD.

Hello Internet, We the FreeBSD KDE Team are happy to let you know KDE SC 4.4.0 was released few mins ago, and we’re ready for a public test. Before you ask we don’t want to put KDE 4.4.0 in the ports tree before FreeBSD 7.3 was released. What is new: KDE SC 4.4.0 provide many new features, designed to integrate local and [...]

Martin Wilke: Firefox 3.6 for FreeBSD available

Firefox 3.6 was committed by beat@ latest night, we’re happy to got all finish before the ports tree is going in the slush mode to prepair packages for FreeBSD 7.3 Release. Please read careful ports/UPDATING. We’d like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters, and a special big thanks to nox for his great debug session to fix our [...]

Martin Wilke: Presenting KDE 4.3.5 for FreeBSD.

Howdy, The official release notes for this release can be found at here . KDE 4.3.5 the last bugfix release in 4.3.x series. It was not planned to have KDE 4.3.5 in our Ports Tree, because we, the FreeBSD KDE Team spend all our energy to port KDE 4.4 release. But we thought it would be good to have it in [...]

Martin Wilke: Server is back

Sorry for the long Offline time, my server was crashed with bad disk, seems all works now fine.

Martin Wilke: [CFT] Firefox 3.6 for FreeBSD

Howdy, We know that a lot people are waiting for Firefox 3.6, but nox@ found a strange bug which is now solved. The problem was that starting Firefox 3.6 with certain addons installed was not possible. Now it looks like all problems are solved and we can start a CFT. If everything works fine we plan to commit Firefox 3.6 next weekend. [...]

Martin Wilke: Call for Testing: Qt 4.6.0 for FreeBSD

Max has announce the QT 4.6.0 public  test. see his Announcement. The FreeBSD KDE team is pleased to announce public call for testing Qt-4.6.0. Ports can be downloaded from area51 repository: svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/QT and integrated into portstree using ‘qtmerge’ script from http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/Tools/scripts/ Alternatively you can use patch vs portstree: http://people.freebsd.org/~makc/patches/qt460.patch.bz2 Knowing issues: devel/qt4-designer fails to build when previous version is installed, so you [...]

Martin Wilke: ports-mgmt/tinderbox-devel update

Yesterday i’ve got the idea to update our tinderbox-devel port. This update include the latest cvs snapshot with few fixes and two highly experimental patches from beat@ and Tim Bishop. Fixes from upstream: - Remove X11BASE support it is now obsolete. (already in ports-mgmt/tinderbox) - Expand the glob to check for Perl so that it actually captures lang/perl5.10. (already [...]

Martin Wilke: Call for tester: VirtualBox 3.1.2 for FreeBSD #take 2

Howdy beat@ called few mins ago a secound CFT for the 3.1.2 release, unfortunaltely we have updated the guest additions to a recent snapshot to fix a kernel module problem but see self the mail and changelog from him here: First of all thanks a lot for all the valuable feedback. We have updated the ports to fix the [...]

Martin Wilke: Happy New Year

I wish a Happy New Year to all readers.

Martin Wilke: Call for tester: VirtualBox 3.1.2 for FreeBSD

Hi All, Changelog from VirtualBox is available here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog Changes in the port: - VirtualBox and the guest additions have been updated to 3.1.2. - Port has been renamed to virtualbox-ose to reflect that we are using the OSE version. Requested by: mm@ - A seperate port for the kernel modules has been created: virtualbox-ose-kmod - A seperate port for guest additions for [...]

Martin Wilke: KOffice2 for FreeBSD avalible

The KDE FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KOffice2 suite for FreeBSD. The official KOffice 2.1.0 notes can be found here. We’d like to say thanks to all helpers, testers and submitters.

Martin Wilke: KDE 4.3.4 for FreeBSD available

Few hours after the Official Release we’re happy to announce that KDE-4.3.4 is now available in the FreeBSD ports tree. KDE-4.3.4 is only a Bugfix release. A full changelog is available here.

Martin Wilke: New Gecko World coming :)

Here is a small Status update about our work on gecko stuff: beat@ already removed all references to www/mozilla. Also the switch from USE_GECKO= xulrunner firefox mozilla to USE_GECKO= libxul is mostly done. Some small parts are still in the tree and we are working on them. Afterwards xulrunner will be removed. Finally the first steps for upcoming Thunderbird3 and [...]

Martin Wilke: Ports tree is open, ports updated: python,QT,py-qt,KDE

So FreeBSD 8.0 was now officially released, and the ports tree was now opened. I’ve taken the night and updated python to 2.6.4. Also as i wrote, I am back to the KDE game, we have updated Qt to 4.5.3. fluffy@ spend a lot time to update py-qt4 which is now 4.6.2, and py-sip is 4.9.3 and as finally we updated KDE [...]

Martin Wilke: Call for tester/reviewer: SeaMonkey 2.0

Howdy, beat@ want some tester for SeaMonkey 2.0 here a full quota: A few days ago SeaMonkey 2.0 has been released. To install SeaMonkey 2.0 a modified bsd.gecko.mk is needed. Therefore we are not able to commit it to the ports tree until the tree is unfreezed. So now we are looking for tester/reviewer of the SeaMonkey 2.0 port. The port is [...]