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This is an archived weblog of the development leading to MirOS. All entries are courtesy of tg@ and historic.
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MirBSD #5 (interim) - Peaceful Coexistence
Our latest and greatest release ever has been released. Despite being an
interim release without working GNU gcc 3.3, it has been undergone the most
pervasive pre-release tests a MirBSD snapshot or release has ever had. You
may want to read the [a href="historic/ann-5.htm"](archived) Release Announcement, where you
find download links and other useful information, as well as the advertising
clauses.
11.06.2003
Due to some unknown reason, stripped kernels with DDB
compiled in just segfault. Until this is fixed, just strip all but one
symbol out of the kernels, and MFC it to MirBSD#5 STABLE. Re-upload new
cdrom33.fs and cd33.iso files.
13.06.2003
Update the djbdns port. Don't splitter
it into three ports, use flavours and a bit of shell magic, as well as a
huge bit of make magic. Update the IPv6
patches to latest niveau (test19) and integrate the IXFR diff found
at Felix' site, too. Update WineX (doesn't work, still segfaults) and fix
a man page - man(7).
20.06.2003 catchup
Fix ksh(1) man page (kludge). Fix
https support in lynx (ports/www/lynx), submit upstream. Renice
X (contrib) and /etc/profile configurations; re-word licence template.
Sync with OpenBSD-current for several important bug fixes. Add option for
sendmail SASL to /etc/mk.conf. Import brk syscall fixes for the Linuxulator,
from the OpenBSD mailing list (it's said to fix subjdk 1.3). Play with wine
(doesn't work, still). Fix apache httpd behaviour to match DJB publicfile
when referring to directories as files. Sync slave repo @BSDadvocacy.
22.06.2003
Boot loader fixes.
28.06.2003
Update acronymes database; fix ksh (emacs-usemeta, tab
completion [] escape); add irq2 target to ISA devices; portupgrade
target to the top-level ports tree Makefile. Get some diffs from tedu@ and
protect just another file against multiple includes. niklas@ supplied help
for the ELF ld.so, I optimized manual pages again. Install more sample files
for sendmail, to help the clueless. Prepare synching with OpenBSD in
preparation of two big events.
30.06.2003
Do heavy amount of synching, building, testing, improving,
fixing etc. - no huge functional differences though. Remove the A,B,C
floppies in favour of the M,CD ones. Include ports tree users by default
in master.passwd. Move portmap to /sbin, statically linked.
Improve performance on newly created filesystems (disklabel, newfs) by
increasing fragment size, block size and number of cylinders per group
by 100%. Enable support for 80486DX and 80487SX chips. Rewrite root.mail
and some man pages and scripts, as well as our fake NLS implementation.
Regenerate generated files (ports tree, too). Remove amd (automount
dæmon). Bump libc/libpthread minor. Several minor improvements.
Add another hard link to hexdump/od, called hd, behaving like
invoking hexdump with the new -H flag. Remove more
LIBC_SCCS, protoize/unprotoize and gcov (since gcc 3.x comes with them
as well). Upload
a snapshot.
05.07.2003 - Catch-Up
More sync, internal minor changes. Make
the floppyM build. Re-wrap licence.template for more law-safety in
Germany. Add acronyme expansion for SAP. Install SSL certificates from
X509 Root CAs by default, for lynx. Enter MirBSD #6 (LinuxTag special
edition) prerelease ("n").
06.07.2003
Exchange the src/lib/csu/ system with that
from NetBSD, yielding crti.o and crtn.o; adjust pgcc
accordingly. Full sync against OpenBSD. Plan and/or do updates for:
sirc, evilwm, lynx (in-tree). Use diff -du[p] where needed.
08.07.2003
Release the LinuxTag Special Edition #6, and
skip over to the next file for development:
Follow this hRef (hypertext reference) to read about the story of MirBSD after the release #6, or go back to the log overview or to the MirOS main page.
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