Status of DragonFlyBSD development

[Michael Neumann]

Thanks, I'll try! Is "rvn upgrade" enough to get the new "rvn" version?

Regards, 

Michael

Am 7. März 2025 13:47:00 MEZ schrieb "John Marino (DragonFly)" <dragonflybsd at marino.st>:
>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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