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New Ports of The Week (May 11)

Contributed by maxime on from the wardriving dept.

There were 8 new ports for the week of May 4 to May 10:

openoffice3

Some ports had updates that users should be aware of; no port was removed.

New ports, listed in the order they were committed to the tree:

  • net/znc
    • ZNC is an advanced IRC bouncer with features that include support for multiple users, playback buffers, DCC bouncing, SASL authentication and SSL encryption. It can be extended with dynamically loaded modules written in C++ or Perl.
  • security/aircrack-ng
    • aircrack is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools. In fact, aircrack is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks.
      Note: aireplay-ng can cause kernel panics, so this is not yet connected to the build. But having it in the tree may get some more people testing driver patches.
  • devel/p5-Any-Moose
    • This Perl module uses Moose if it's loaded and otherwise Mouse.
  • devel/p5-Scope-Upper
    • This Perl module lets you defer actions that will take place when the control flow returns into an upper scope. Currently, you can hook an upper scope end, or localize variables, array/hash values or deletions of elements in higher contexts. You can also return to an upper level and know which context was in use then.
  • devel/p5-YAML-Tiny
    • The YAML specification is huge. Really, really huge. It contains all the functionality of XML, except with flexibility and choice, which makes it easier to read, but with a formal specification that is more complex than XML. The original pure-Perl implementation YAML costs just over 4 megabytes of memory to load. Just like with Windows .ini files (3 meg to load) and CSS (3.5 meg to load) the situation is just asking for a YAML::Tiny module, an incomplete but correct and usable subset of the functionality, in as little code as possible.
  • devel/ruby-systemtimer
    • System Timer, a timer based on underlying SIGALRM system timers, is a solution to Ruby processes which hang beyond the time limit when accessing external resources. This is useful when timeout.rb, which relies on green threads, does not work consistently.
  • www/lightsquid
    • LightSquid is a fast and simple Squid log parser with a Perl CGI script to dynamically generate report pages.
  • textproc/aspell/dicts/lt
    • Lithuanian dictionary for aspell.

Updated ports that users should be aware of:

  • astro:
  • devel:
  • editors:
    • editors/openoffice3, from openoffice-3.0.1rc1 to openoffice-3.1.0.
      This update comes with 2 new flavors in the port:
      • a no_java flavor because now we can build OOo w/o having jdk and other java dependencies installed;
      • a parallel flavor that allows people to build OOo with parallel processes. To achieve this we use a so called "non-blocking" cat, so another distfile has been added in order two provide to pre-built static binaries with the needed modifications (for amd64 and i386). By default we run a parallel build with NCPU+1 processes.
  • graphics:
    • graphics/sane-backends, from sane-backends-1.0.19 to sane-backends-1.0.20.
      This major update brings:
      • new and updated backends;
      • 75 more scanner models supported;
      • epson backend deprecated, use epson2;
      • coolscan2 backend deprecated, use coolscan3;
      • improved saned configuration;
      • updated translations and documentations;
      • bugfixes.
  • shells:
  • sysutils:
    • sysutils/conky, from conky-1.6.1 to conky-1.7.0.
      A no_x11 flavour was added (useful for dwm's status bar or with dzen2).
  • x11:

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Comments
  1. By Anonymous Coward (91.66.239.78) on

    Those Kernel Panics are triggered by the injection of RAW data or?
    If the drivers get patched would there be any chance to use lorcon too in the future?

    http://802.11ninja.net/lorcon/

    Comments
    1. By David Coppa (195.35.99.107) on

      > Those Kernel Panics are triggered by the injection of RAW data or?
      > If the drivers get patched would there be any chance to use lorcon too in the future?
      >
      > http://802.11ninja.net/lorcon/

      Yes, the problem is that aircrack-ng is injecting raw control frames
      through bpf and most of OpenBSD's wireless drivers aren't prepared/capable to send control frames.

      cheers,
      david


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