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Release of GSRC 2013.04.06
Item posted by Brandon Invergo <brandon> on Sat 06 Apr 2013 09:53:03 PM UTC.
I'm happy to announce the 2013.04.06 release of GSRC, the GNU Source
Release Collection. GSRC is a convenient means to fetch, build and
install the latest GNU software from source via a BSD Ports-like system.
Installing a package is as simple as
$ make -C gnu/hello install
You can find more information and the documentation at the GSRC website:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsrc
This release is a snapshot of the state of released GNU software at this
time. You can download this release at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsrc or,
to download it from the nearest mirror, at http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gsrc/
Of course, to stay up-to-date with the latest package releases
in-between releases of GSRC, you may choose instead to checkout the bzr
repository:
$ bzr checkout bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/gsrc/trunk/ gsrc
And keep up-to-date with the latest releases:
$ bzr update
If you encounter any problems with a build script, please let me know
at bug-gsrc@gnu.org.
NEWS
- Changes to the GSRC system
** GSRC features longer package descriptions for all GNU packages
GSRC is now perhaps the best means of learning about the wide variety
of software provided by GNU thanks to the new long package
descriptions. These are viewable via the "pkg-info" Make target.
** GSRC provides a searchable package database in recfile format
In addition to the "gsrc" script, you can now search the packages via
the MANIFEST.rec file with GNU Recutils. If you have downloaded GSRC
via its source archive, this file should be included. If you have
cloned the GSRC source repository, you can build it with the
"manifest" Make target.
** 3rd party dependencies are no longer provided
GSRC is not a full source distribution. Thus, all non-GNU packages
have been removed. Instead, GSRC will print a message when an
external package is required but not present on the user's system.
** Trying to build a broken packages now prints a warning first.
Unfortunately, not all GNU packages build correctly at present. To
acknowledge the known build failures, GSRC will print a message and
ask for confirmation before attempting to build such a package. This
also indicates that the GSRC maintainer is already aware of the
problem.
- Changes in GSRC packages
** 23 packages have been added to GSRC since the last release.
** 81 packages have been updated since the last release.
** 5 builds that were previously broken have been fixed.
** Coverage statistics
Note: the totals include packages that will not be implemented in
GSRC, such as retired packages, which are counted as completed. Broken
builds are counted as incomplete. Some packages have not yet made any
releases, which are also counted as incomplete. See TODO for more
information.
* GNU packages [395/457] [86%] (+9%)
* GNOME packages [25/566] [4%] (+0%)
* GNUstep packages [19/25] [76%] (+0%)
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