We’ve pushed GCC–4.6.2 into unstable. Before we promote it to dublin (see the release branches for information what that means), we need to add the Ada compiler, which still requires more work.
Archive for the ‘Recent updates’ category
GCC-4.6.2 is available from unstable
November 4th, 2011The R Project is available
November 4th, 2011We’ve released the R Project into the unstable catalog.
pkgutil 2.4 released
May 15th, 2011Pkgutil 2.4 was released 2011-05-15. Change log:
- pkgutil: new option –cleanup. When invoked, scans for /var/sadm/pkg/*/install/obsolete. If it finds /var/sadm/pkg/CSWlibfoo/install/obsolete and nothing installed depends on CSWlibfoo, then CSWlibfoo gets removed from the system
- Support key package (/etc/opt/csw/pki, /var/opt/csw/pki). Change default homedir (Ben Walton)
- Parse option for download, incl. catalog and md5 (Maciej Blizinski)
- Include distribution (e.g. unstable) with pkgliststyle 2
- Support absolute paths in –output (Dago)
- Show last two parts of mirror path as distribution (e.g. dublin/core)
- Change default pkgliststyle to 2
- Speed up option -l with glob
- Silence “Checking integrity …” when –parse is on (4693@OpenCSW)
- pkgutil: eval ‘PATH=/opt/csw/bin:$PATH exec perl -x -w $0 ${1+”$@”}’ (PCA)
- pkgutil: fix pkgask/response bug (3205333@SF) (Julian Clifton-Thompson)
- pkgutil: fix a bug in –cleanup when using –yes or auto (admin not set)
- Do not duplicate mirrors present in pkgutil.conf in both /opt and /etc (4693@OpenCSW)
- Fix bug in hook support (Ben Walton)
- bldcat: add -q/–quiet option
- bldcat: improve support for non-CSW packages (3300709@SF) (Mark Heily)
- chkcat: add -c/–nocyclic option to skip cyclic dependency checking, helps speed a lot
- chkcat: suppress warning exit code 1 when using –erroronly
- chkcat: multiple catalog files can be specified and checked as a set (Maciej Blizinski)
Perl 5.10.1 with new INC
January 15th, 2011An updated Perl packages has been released which uses a more logical INC-path, the same as RHEL uses.
@INC:
/opt/csw/lib/perl/site_perl
/opt/csw/share/perl/site_perl
/opt/csw/share/perl/site_perl
/opt/csw/lib/perl/csw
/opt/csw/share/perl/csw
/opt/csw/share/perl/csw
/opt/csw/lib/perl/5.10.1
/opt/csw/share/perl/5.10.1
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Adobe Reader available
August 25th, 2010We have just received the license from Adobe to distribute the Adobe Reader. As Adobe switched development from Solaris Sparc to Solaris x86 there are different versions available for each platform:
- Adobe Reader 8 for Solaris Sparc
- Adobe Reader 9 for Solaris x86
Have fun with CSWadobereader !
Security release – Firefox 3.0.14 is available
September 13th, 2009Several vulnerabilities have been fixed by the latest security release of Firefox 3.0 ( 3.0.14 ). The list of fixed vulnerabilities is available from here Mozilla’s security advisories page
Fixed issues in Firefox 3.0.14 are :
MFSA 2009-51 Chrome privilege escalation with FeedWriter
MFSA 2009-50 Location bar spoofing via tall line-height Unicode characters
MFSA 2009-49 TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability
MFSA 2009-48 Insufficient warning for PKCS11 module installation and removal
MFSA 2009-47 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.3/1.9.0.14)
MFSA 2009-50 Location bar spoofing via tall line-height Unicode characters
MFSA 2009-49 TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability
MFSA 2009-48 Insufficient warning for PKCS11 module installation and removal
MFSA 2009-47 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.3/1.9.0.14)
Security release – Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 is available
September 9th, 2009Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 has been released to current. This version resolve the following critical issues :
MFSA 2009-43 Heap overflow in certificate regexp parsing
MFSA 2009-42 Compromise of SSL-protected communication
OpenOffice 3.1 is released
August 18th, 2009We are pleased to announce a major version update for OpenOffice Suite. Current catalog now provides version 3.1
