MidnightBSD

We've identified a bug related to package management in MidnightBSD .0.4-RELEASE. The hash check that is part of libmport is improperly working.  This means you can't install packages with the mport command. To work around this issue, please checkout ... [More] the 0.4-RELEASE source from CVS using the directions on the site and then rebuild and install libmport. cd /usr/src/lib/libmport make make install ... [Less]

We've identified a bug related to package management in MidnightBSD .0.4-RELEASE. The hash check that is part of libmport is improperly working. �This means you can't install packages with the mport command. To work around this issue, please checkout ... [More] the 0.4-RELEASE source from CVS using the directions on�the site and then rebuild and install libmport. cd /usr/src/lib/libmport make make install ... [Less]

We've identified a bug related to package management in MidnightBSD .0.4-RELEASE. The hash check that is part of libmport is improperly working.  This means you can't install packages with the mport command. To work around this issue, please checkout ... [More] the 0.4-RELEASE source from CVS using the directions on the site and then rebuild and install libmport. cd /usr/src/lib/libmport make make install ... [Less]

In addition to our mirrors, we have some other options for downloading 0.4 release popping up.  ...

In addition to our mirrors, we have some other options for downloading 0.4 release popping up.� ...

In addition to our mirrors, we have some other options for downloading 0.4 release popping up.  ...

MidnightBSD 0.4 has been released on July 5, 2013. It includes many new features, but of particular interest is the new package management tool, mport.     This release is a bit different from previous releases in that we plan to update packages ... [More] during the support period for 0.4. Rather than upload packages and sit on them for the life of the release, you will be able to download updated packages for i386 and amd64 periodically.    Due to this new feature, our initial package offering is smaller than we've done for previous releases as many things had to get migrated and updated. We plan to expand the packages available in the coming weeks.    In addition to mport, we've imported a large number of features from FreeBSD 9.1 including ZFS with ZPOOL 28/dedup support, LLVM + CLANG in base, migration to GPT as the default in the installer, bsdinstall, BSD licensed sort and grep, cpucontrol(8), and UFS2 + SUJ (journaling). We've also imported the newer FreeBSD USB stack, NFSv4 client, syscons, and CAM based ATA.    Support for newer hardware includes Intel Sandybridge and Ivy Bridge graphics, various wifi chipsets, updates to Intel and Realtek ethernet adapters, and acpi.   The default system compiler is still GCC 4.2, but it has been updated to a newer release. We also removed libobjc from base as it was GCC specific and we want to migrate to libobjc2.  We offer libobjc2 in mports and it will work with GCC and LLVM.    MidnightBSD now has it's own GPT partition types and offers a new search command, msearch.   libc gains strnlen(3), memrchr(3), stpncpy(3).   We've also imported and updated many third party libraries:   bzip2 version 1.0.6 Diffutils 3.2 FILE 5.05 OpenSSH 5.8p2 SQLite 3.7.15.2 MKSH R44 NetBSD's iconv BIND 9.8 tcsh 6.18.01 Perl 5.14.2 mDNSResponder 333.10 less v436 libarchive 3.0.3 libdialog (lgpl version) libffi 3.0.10 wide-dhcpv6 openresolv sendmail 8.14.5 sudo 1.7.4-p6 tzdata_2012j   This release is a bit disruptive due to the number of changes, but it was decided to move forward with it due to the age of 0.3-RELEASE.  The next release is planned as a stability release and meant to work on desktop related functionality.  ... [Less]

MidnightBSD 0.4 has been released on July 5, 2013. It includes many new features, but of particular interest is the new package management tool, mport. � � This release is a bit different from previous releases in that we plan to update packages ... [More] during the support period for 0.4. Rather than upload packages and sit on them for the life of the release, you will be able to download updated packages for i386 and amd64 periodically.� � Due to this new feature, our initial package offering is smaller than we've done for previous releases as many things had to get migrated and updated. We plan to expand the packages available in the coming weeks.� � In addition to mport, we've imported a large number of features from FreeBSD 9.1 including ZFS with ZPOOL 28/dedup support, LLVM + CLANG in base, migration to GPT as the default in the installer, bsdinstall, BSD licensed sort and grep, cpucontrol(8), and UFS2 + SUJ (journaling). We've also imported the newer FreeBSD USB stack, NFSv4 client, syscons, and CAM based ATA.� � Support for newer hardware includes Intel Sandybridge and Ivy Bridge graphics, various wifi chipsets, updates to Intel and Realtek ethernet adapters, and acpi. � The default system compiler is still GCC 4.2, but it has been updated to a newer release. We also removed libobjc from base as it was GCC specific and we want to migrate to libobjc2. �We offer libobjc2 in mports and it will work with GCC and LLVM.� � MidnightBSD now has it's own GPT partition types and offers a new search command, msearch. � libc gains strnlen(3), memrchr(3), stpncpy(3). � We've also imported and updated many third party libraries: � bzip2 version 1.0.6 Diffutils 3.2 FILE 5.05 OpenSSH 5.8p2 SQLite 3.7.15.2 MKSH R44 NetBSD's iconv BIND 9.8 tcsh 6.18.01 Perl 5.14.2 mDNSResponder 333.10 less v436 libarchive 3.0.3 libdialog (lgpl version) libffi 3.0.10 wide-dhcpv6 openresolv sendmail 8.14.5 sudo 1.7.4-p6 tzdata_2012j � This release is a bit disruptive due to the number of changes, but it was decided to move forward with it due to the age of 0.3-RELEASE. �The next release is planned as a stability release and meant to work on desktop related functionality.� ... [Less]

MidnightBSD 0.4 has been released on July 5, 2013. It includes many new features, but of particular interest is the new package management tool, mport.     This release is a bit different from previous releases in that we plan to update packages ... [More] during the support period for 0.4. Rather than upload packages and sit on them for the life of the release, you will be able to download updated packages for i386 and amd64 periodically.    Due to this new feature, our initial package offering is smaller than we've done for previous releases as many things had to get migrated and updated. We plan to expand the packages available in the coming weeks.    In addition to mport, we've imported a large number of features from FreeBSD 9.1 including ZFS with ZPOOL 28/dedup support, LLVM + CLANG in base, migration to GPT as the default in the installer, bsdinstall, BSD licensed sort and grep, cpucontrol(8), and UFS2 + SUJ (journaling). We've also imported the newer FreeBSD USB stack, NFSv4 client, syscons, and CAM based ATA.    Support for newer hardware includes Intel Sandybridge and Ivy Bridge graphics, various wifi chipsets, updates to Intel and Realtek ethernet adapters, and acpi.   The default system compiler is still GCC 4.2, but it has been updated to a newer release. We also removed libobjc from base as it was GCC specific and we want to migrate to libobjc2.  We offer libobjc2 in mports and it will work with GCC and LLVM.    MidnightBSD now has it's own GPT partition types and offers a new search command, msearch.   libc gains strnlen(3), memrchr(3), stpncpy(3).   We've also imported and updated many third party libraries:   bzip2 version 1.0.6 Diffutils 3.2 FILE 5.05 OpenSSH 5.8p2 SQLite 3.7.15.2 MKSH R44 NetBSD's iconv BIND 9.8 tcsh 6.18.01 Perl 5.14.2 mDNSResponder 333.10 less v436 libarchive 3.0.3 libdialog (lgpl version) libffi 3.0.10 wide-dhcpv6 openresolv sendmail 8.14.5 sudo 1.7.4-p6 tzdata_2012j   This release is a bit disruptive due to the number of changes, but it was decided to move forward with it due to the age of 0.3-RELEASE.  The next release is planned as a stability release and meant to work on desktop related functionality.  ... [Less]

There have been two snapshots release in the last few months, i386 and amd64.  The former appears to be bug free and was created this month.  You can find it in the snapshots directory under i386 and 0.4-130610-SNAP.  The amd64 snap has a few bugs ... [More] , but can be installed. Both of these snapshots are for 0.4-CURRENT.  Recently, we created a branch for 0.4 and there are a few large big fixes and one security update since the snapshots were released. It is strongly recommended to rebuild from the 0.4 branch after installing a snapshot. There are currently no packages for i386 available.  The index does not work with the newer mport tool in RELENG_0_4.  As the ports tree is in the middle of a major update, it's not stable enough to release packages yet.  I'm working on this problem. Most notebly QT4 is broken right now. X.org ports, dbus, gcc and many other ports have been updated in the last month. There have been many architecture changes to the mports/Mk extensions as well. We now support some FreeBSD ports USES statements (pathfix, charset, ncurses, pkgconfig) which makes migrating ports from FreeBSD easier. Magus has been running lately and churning out test builds of packages. The results for the last 3 runs were quite bad.  ... [Less]