OpenBSD Journal

New Ports of the Week #26 (June 30)

Contributed by jason on from the quality-over-quantity dept.

There are 4 new ports for the week of June 23 to June 30:

Some ports had updates that users should be aware of.

Ports are listed in the order they were committed to the tree:

  • books/wndw
  • security/hatchet
    • Hatchet is a log parsing/presentation program written for PF firewall logs, such as those found in OpenBSD. It offers a browser-based interface for quickly reviewing log events and performing deeper analysis.
  • net/argus
    • Argus is a fixed-model real time flow monitor designed to track and report on the status and performance of all network transactions seen in a data network traffic stream. Argus provides a common data format for reporting flow metrics such as connectivity, capacity, demand, loss, delay, and jitter on a per transaction basis. The record format that Argus uses is flexible and extensible, supporting generic flow identifiers and metrics, as well as application/protocol specific information.
  • net/argus-clients
    • Argus data clients support a range of operations on binary flow data from Argus, such as sorting, aggregation, archival and reporting.

Port update notes:

  • devel/jdk:
    Deprecate 1.3 and 1.4 due to lack of security updates, end-of-life status or near eol, and bulk build time. This removes the limited Java support we had on arm, powerpc and sparc until such time OpenJDK/IcedTea can replace it. 1.3 and 1.4 ports directories will be removed next release to avoid bit rot.
  • devel/jdk/:
    Remove work-arounds for missing getpwuid_r now that we have it.
  • audio/vorbis-tools:
    SECURITY FIX for SA29727 "Speex Header Processing Vulnerability". (CVE-2008-1686).
  • misc/dialog:
    Update to Thomas Dickey's fixed version. Add license marker.
  • telephony/asterisk:
    Bugfix update to 1.4.21.1, fixing a fairly major problem introduced in 1.4.21 by correcting the order of lock and unlock in a deadlock avoidance macro. No other changes. Not security, but if you're running 1.4.21, you definitely want this.

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Comments
  1. By Anonymous Coward (81.83.46.237) on

    Wireless Networking in the Developing World seems a nice book, good these things get in the ports tree because else I would not have known it existed. Thanks!

    Comments
    1. By sthen@ (2a01:348:108:155:216:41ff:fe53:6a45) on

      > Wireless Networking in the Developing World seems a nice book,
      > good these things get in the ports tree because else I would not
      > have known it existed. Thanks!

      Glad you liked it :-) It covers a lot of ground (for those who didn't look yet, this includes: IP networking, RF propagation, antenna construction, solar power) in a nice level of detail. Highly recommended for anyone interested in these things.

  2. By Anonymous Coward (88.72.213.79) on

    Many thanks for the hatchet port!

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (213.118.21.66) on

      > Many thanks for the hatchet port!

      yes that too is a great one, I just tried the demo on the project homepage

    2. By jason (jason) jason@dixongroup.net on http://www.dixongroup.net/

      > Many thanks for the hatchet port!

      My pleasure. It's been a long time in the works but hopefully now will get the TLC it deserves. I've already issued a fix in the repository that should be updated in the port very soon (tonight?).

    3. By Anonymous Coward (193.226.177.115) on

      > Many thanks for the hatchet port!

      Too bad it doesn't work on OBSD-current ;(

      Comments
      1. By Mike Erdely (merdely) on http://erdelynet.com/

        > > Many thanks for the hatchet port!
        >
        > Too bad it doesn't work on OBSD-current ;(

        Best test report ever. Well, it rivals the one from misc about modulate state.

        -ME

      2. By jason (jason) on http://www.dixongroup.net/

        > > Many thanks for the hatchet port!
        >
        > Too bad it doesn't work on OBSD-current ;(

        I just released a bugfix version and updated the port. Delete your pflog.db, update to 0.9.1, and try again.

      3. By jason (jason) on http://www.dixongroup.net/

        > > Many thanks for the hatchet port!
        >
        > Too bad it doesn't work on OBSD-current ;(

        Oh yeah, and make sure you point your browser to /cgi/events.pl. Somehow I completely missed documenting this vital bit of information. :(

        Comments
        1. By don cipo (doncipo) on

          > > > Many thanks for the hatchet port!
          > >
          > > Too bad it doesn't work on OBSD-current ;(
          >
          > Oh yeah, and make sure you point your browser to /cgi/events.pl. Somehow I completely missed documenting this vital bit of information. :(
          >
          >
          It works now. Thanks !

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