Status of DragonFlyBSD development

[Michael Neumann]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:52:07AM -0500, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> Why don't we?

Good question! Ravenports works pretty well from my own experience!

For me, the only "complex" packages I still miss in Ravenports are:

* chromium - firefox from ravenports works pretty well though

* mplayer - mpv and vlc are probably good alternatives

* obs-studio - not really useful unless we gain webcam support

* texlive - I never managed to download texlive from ravenports. the
  download either stalled or I run into a 2 GiB error. I think the
  trick is to only install the texlive-texmf~primary package, which
  omits 2.6 GiB worth of docs!!!!

So, if we had a working chromium port, and I manage to download texlive
from raven, there would be no blocker from my side to completely switch
over. Dports would still coexist of course, though I think it'd wise to
rather spend our precious time and focus on Ravenports.

Regards,

  Michael


> 
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM John Marino (DragonFly) <
> dragonflybsd at marino.st> wrote:
> 
> > Or y'all could just officially adopt Ravenports which has full
> > package releases at least monthly.
> > I know, I know, the chromium package isn't finished.
> >
> > but it's got the last rust, llvm/clang, gcc, etc.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM Aaron LI <aly at aaronly.me> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Nelson,
> >>
> >> We really need to do a major release (i.e. 6.6) soon, but we're still
> >> struggling with the packages.  We're still fixing 2024Q3 from FreeBSD
> >> Ports and it seems to still need some time.  I'm sorry I don't know the
> >> schedule.  We currently only have a handful developers working on the
> >> packages and it's becoming harder to keep up with FreeBSD.
> >>
> >> By the way, we'll also do a point release (i.e., 6.4.1) soon, in order
> >> to fix the annoying TLS certificate failure with Let's Encrypt.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Aaron
> >>
> >> FYI, I still remember to test TeXLive on DragonFly. Really sorry about
> >> the long delay...
> >>
> >>
> >> On 3/2/25 6:29 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> >> > Can DragonFlyBSD folks comment on the status of O/S and package
> >> > development?
> >> >
> >> > I ask because the last gcc update on my DragonFlyBSD 6.4.0 system was
> >> > for version 12.2.0 on 29-Jul-2024, and the last clang update was
> >> > version 14.0.6 on 2-Aug-2024.  My kernel is dated 30-Dec-2022.
> >> >
> >> > Recent FreeBSD releases have clang-21 and gcc-15, and the
> >> > LLVM/Clang download site at
> >> >
> >> >       https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/
> >> >
> >> > has binaries for some systems up to LLVM 20.1.0-rc2.
> >> >
> >> > The site at
> >> >
> >> >       https://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/
> >> >
> >> > was last updated on 1-Jan-2023, 26 months ago.
> >> >
> >> > I run updates on my active VMs every 2 to 4 weeks, and I have not had
> >> > any updates for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.0 since 15-Oct-2024.
> >> >
> >> > Are other DragonFlyBSD list members also seeing a lull in O/S and
> >> > package releases?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > - Nelson H. F. Beebe                    Tel: +1 801 581 5254
> >>       -
> >> > - University of Utah
> >>       -
> >> > - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB    Internet e-mail:
> >> beebe at math.utah.edu  -
> >> > - 155 S 1400 E RM 233                       beebe at acm.org
> >> beebe at computer.org -
> >> > - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA    URL:
> >> https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe -
> >> >
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>

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