MidnightBSD Developer Journal

I've added three pictures to http://www.midnightbsd.org/ The pictures show MidnightBSD running on my ThinkPad.

We just gained a new committer. Alex is interested in GUI related projects and has interest in the installer and GUI for the mports system.

I checked in a new sound rc.d script that loads the appropriate kernel module for specific sound cards. Not all the PCI IDs are in the associated file. This is based on the FreeSBIE/PC-BSD/DesktopBSD scripts.

If you find a missing PCI ID, let me know. You can disable the script and then load all the sound drivers using loader.conf or try loading the module for your specific card.

So far I've tested this on my laptop with great success. After a little testing, this will be included with 0.1 as well.

Some bugs with the xine and libxine ports were fixed. If you had trouble building libxine before, try now. Let me know if there are any errors.

GNU m4 in devel/m4 has been updated to 1.4.9 from 1.4.4.

GNUstep ports seem to build on my laptop now. I'm having some issues running the TextEdit port, but I'm thinking it's a local issue with my laptop setup. I'm building a fresh system in virtual pc on my windows box to test.

The php5-sqlite port was fixed. It was failing after the PHP 5 update.

The PHP5 port was updated to 5.2.3. The new version includes several security patches.

Fixed an integer overflow inside chunk_split() (by Gerhard Wagner, CVE-2007-2872)
Fixed possible infinite loop in imagecreatefrompng. (by Xavier Roche, CVE-2007-2756)
Fixed ext/filter Email Validation Vulnerability (MOPB-45 by Stefan Esser, CVE-2007-1900)
Fixed bug #41492 (open_basedir/safe_mode bypass inside realpath()) (by bugs dot php dot net at chsc dot dk)
Improved fix for CVE-2007-1887 to work with non-bundled sqlite2 lib.
Added mysql_set_charset() to allow runtime altering of connection encoding.

I've had some reports of problems with the captcha on the account registration page. I've disabled it for now. If you were having problems registering, please try again.

I added a Limewire port tonight. This will only work with i386 and you must have a binary Java port installed.

I did a little ports work tonight. screen and rtorrent were updated. rtorrent is at 0.11.4 which is the most recent stable version. screen is now at 4.0.3.

I also added screenie which allows you to get a list of backgrounded tasks using the screen facilities.

On 5/17/07, Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer at f2o.org> wrote:
>
> Greetings-
>
> OpenBSD includes a version of sdiff written by our very own Ray
> Lai, and released to the public domain.
>
> In a quest to remove as much GPL code from FreeBSD as possible, I
> ported it over.
>
> If you want to try it out, You can download the source at
> http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer/code/sdiff.tar.gz
>
> To install:
> $ su -
> # cd to /usr/src
> # patch -p0 < /path/to/sdiff-cvs-merge.patch
> # sh /path/to/sdiff.shar
> # make buildworld && make installworld
>
> Let me know if you encounter any problems. I would like to see if
> I can get the GNU version of sdiff removed and replaced with this
> in FreeBSD. It might be somewhat of an uphill battle, but it is
> worth a shot.
>
> --
> Steven Kreuzer
> http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer 

Both the sendmail and dovecot ports were updated to the most recent versions.