Author Archive for Martin
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sorry for the long Offline time, my server was crashed with bad disk, seems all works now fine.
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I wish a Happy New Year to all readers.
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 [...]
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here is a patch to update python to 2.6.4 and py-setuptools (thx to wen@), it seems all fine to me,
i’ve already update locally without any problems, tinderbox run was also fine and dependency ports
builds without problems. If you like to test the patch feel free and fetch it from here.
If you find any problems with [...]
We’re happy to announce that KDE-4.3.2 is ready
for testing. KDE-4.3.2 is only a Bugfix release.
If you want to play with KDE 4.3.2 please checkout
all ports from area51.
A note about area51, we have changed the repo layout,
Qt and KDE is now split between area51/QT and area51/KDE.
If you have an old check out please delete all and [...]
So beat@ did the Gecko job more or less alone . So I thought
it’s a good idea to help a bit the KDE Team.. I’ve started with
a rework of the area51 repo. We splitted now Qt and KDE into
2 seperated repo’s. Makes the life a bit easier in future.
Also I rewrote the build system [...]
