In 2012, we wrote about the IPS repository being in the works. Unfortunately, we have done no progress on it. We’ve talked about IPS many times, and while people agree it’s a great idea to have an IPS repository, they are unable to devote time to it.

What’s needed for the IPS repo to happen? It is unlikely that any of the existing package maintainers pick this up. Somebody new needs to step up.

The closest existing thing is sfe.opencsw.org which is hosted in our domain, but it’s an entirely separate effort which shares no code with OpenCSW.

On Solaris 10, the minimum libc version for OpenCSW packages is 1.22.5. You can check it with:

pvs -no /usr/lib/libc.so

If your libc version is older than that, you need to patch / upgrade your Solaris installation before upgrading OpenCSW packages.

libc version 1.22.5 has been introduced in Solaris 10 update 8.

Six months have passed since we’ve promoted ‘kiel’ to stable. It’s time for a new release. We’ve promoted the testing catalog ‘bratislava’ to stable, and created a new ‘munich’ catalog which has become the new testing.

The new stable catalog contains the patched CSWbash package.

original announcement

After the horrible heartbleed blug, a new set of security vulnerabilities was recently found in OpenSSL and publicly disclosed on June, 5th. Although not as serious as heartbleed, one of these new vulnerabilities allows an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, so you are strongly advised to update to openssl 1.0.1h,REV=2014.06.06, which was released in unstable, kiel and bratislava repositories on June, 6th.

We gladly announce the release of packages for GCC 4.9.0 for Solaris 10 Sparc and i386. Thanks Maciej!

As a follow-up to our previous cleanings, we’ve taken another go at eliminating clutter from the catalog. By clutter we mean packages that are not updated for 4+ years, owned by inactive maintainers, and/or generally not useful any more.

Some of the packages were: dcraw, ddd, fluxbox_dtlogin, hylafax, jetty, ksh, minicom, nethack, pen (simple load balancer), rxvt, scala, tcptraceroute, thttpd, wiggle, wv2, and urxvt.

We also removed unused *_stub packages and most of the X11 packages from the times when OpenCSW tried to provide its own libX11. Overall, 441 stale packages have been removed.

Spring is here!

On the 10th of March 2014, we’ve promoted the kiel catalog to the stable release, and bratislava to the testing release.
There are no major changes in the catalog, but mainly incremental updates.

When you upgrade your systems to the new release, you can use pkgutil --cleanup to get rid of empty and obsolete packages.

See the announcement on the users mailing list for more details.

We’ve just flipped symlinks on the master mirror. Those subscribed to the ‘testing’ release will receive a massive package upgrade.Inflatable Movie Screen

More details in the announcement email on the users mailing list.

If you’re only looking for instructions how to get started, you don’t need to watch the video.

If you’re curious about OpenCSW, want a bit more in-depth look and have an hour to spend watching a presentation, this is for you.

In the video, Dagobert Michelsen presents the project overview: what is OpenCSW, what does the project provide, and how it does it. Claudio Ramirez and William Bonnet joined the presentation to ask some additional questions and provide live comments.

Watch it here: OpenCSW project overview by Dagobert Michelsen

If you have any questions or comments, drop by our IRC channel, #opencsw on Freenode.