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Sun Sep 11 18:39:02 PDT 2011


I have binary package build reports going up at
http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/reports/ all the time - they are mostly
for quarterly releases right now, but I'm working my way towards
pkgsrc-current too.

And!  Congratulations!

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:57 AM, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st> wrote:
> Hi @users,
>
> With all my work upgrading gcc, binutils, rtld, and ELF handling, I was
> invited to become a DragonFly developer earlier this year, which I was
> honored to accept.  A couple of months ago, the NetBSD foundation
> extended a similar offer to me based on my work with Ada packages and
> pkgsrc fixes.  It was a much more strict and time-consuming application
> process, but I was granted a commit bit for NetBSD last week.
>
> I've already put that privilege to good use to fix long-standing
> breakage with the postgresql 8.3 and 8.4 client packages.
>
> This situation should allow DragonFly pkgsrc breakage to be fixed more
> quickly than maybe it has been in the past.  DragonFly users should
> still use the NetBSD Problem Report system
> (http://www.netbsd.org/support/query-pr.html) to report issues with
> DragonFly packages, and hopefully provide a patch to fix them.  However,
> after they report the issue, send me an email with the PR number listed,
> and I'll try to get the fix in the system quickly.   Again, I'm really
> talking about the situations where a patch has been created, and not
> particularly where the package broken for reasons not yet known.
>
> -- John
>
>






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