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A pile of sh and pam fixes

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:30:00 +0000

Peter Avalos added an avalanche of updates for PAM and sh, so I’ll link to a few of them. The changes are mostly sourced from FreeBSD. The PAM changes remove pam_krb5 and pam_ksu, for which there’s an alternative.

Pkgsrc packages possibly pruned

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:35:25 +0000

There’s a number of pkgsrc packages that have a combination of security vulnerabilites and lack of updates for more than a year which is placing them on the chopping block. (Follow the discussion to see which ones make it off the list.) The removals will happen after the next branch, pkgsrc-2011Q1, which is itself due in two days.

More memoryallocators manpage material

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:34:29 +0000

Venkatesh Srinivas has added a new memoryallocators(9) man page, to describe the various memory allocation schemes in DragonFly. It gives descriptions of each and leads off to more man pages.