Status of DragonFlyBSD development

[John Marino (DragonFly)]

Hi Michael,
I'm pretty sure that 2Gb limitation was fixed with the latest rvn releases.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM Michael Neumann <mneumann at ntecs.de> wrote:

> 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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> > >>
> > >>
>
> --
> Michael Neumann
> NTECS Consulting
> www.ntecs.de
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