Status of DragonFlyBSD development

[John Marino (DragonFly)]

should be.  0.4.3 is the latest version of rvn.

On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM Michael Neumann <mneumann at ntecs.de> wrote:

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