Recent Package Updates
2021-07-23: physfs-shlibs-1.0.0-1005 (Access to various archive formats)
PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various
archives. It is intended for use in video games, and the design
was somewhat inspired by Quake 3's file subsystem. The programmer
defines a "write directory" on the physical filesystem. No file
writing done through the PhysicsFS API can leave that write
directory, for security. For example, an embedded scripting
language cannot write outside of this path if it uses PhysFS
for all of its I/O, which means that untrusted scripts can run
more safely. Symbolic links can be disabled as well, for added
safety. For file reading, the programmer lists directories and
archives that form a "search path". Once the search path is
defined, it becomes a single, transparent hierarchical filesystem.
This makes for easy access to ZIP files in the same way as you
access a file directly on the disk, and it makes it easy to
ship a new archive that will override a previous archive on a
per-file basis. Finally, PhysicsFS gives you platform-abstracted
means to determine if CD-ROMs are available, the user's home
directory, where in the real filesystem your program is running,
etc.
commit log from Daniel Macks (dmacks@netspace.org):
physfs*: fix libversion swappy2021-07-23: physfs1-shlibs-3.0.2-2 (Access to various archive formats)
PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various
archives. It is intended for use in video games, and the design
was somewhat inspired by Quake 3's file subsystem. The programmer
defines a "write directory" on the physical filesystem. No file
writing done through the PhysicsFS API can leave that write
directory, for security. For example, an embedded scripting
language cannot write outside of this path if it uses PhysFS
for all of its I/O, which means that untrusted scripts can run
more safely. Symbolic links can be disabled as well, for added
safety. For file reading, the programmer lists directories and
archives that form a "search path". Once the search path is
defined, it becomes a single, transparent hierarchical filesystem.
This makes for easy access to ZIP files in the same way as you
access a file directly on the disk, and it makes it easy to
ship a new archive that will override a previous archive on a
per-file basis. Finally, PhysicsFS gives you platform-abstracted
means to determine if CD-ROMs are available, the user's home
directory, where in the real filesystem your program is running,
etc.
commit log from Daniel Macks (dmacks@netspace.org):
physfs*: fix libversion swappy2021-07-22: xrootd4-4.12.6-1 (Distributed access to data repositories)
The XROOTD project aims at giving high performance, scalable fault
tolerant access to data repositories of many kinds. The typical usage
is to give access to file-based ones. It is based on a scalable
architecture, a communication protocol, and a set of plugins and tools
based on those. The freedom to configure it and to make it scale
(for size and performance) allows the deployment of data access clusters
of virtually any size, which caninclude sophisticated features, like
authentication/authorization, integrations with other systems, WAN data
distribution, etc.
commit log from Daniel Macks (dmacks@netspace.org):
xrootd4: new version
This is likely the last xrootd v4 release upstream.2021-07-22: libavcodec58-4.0-shlibs-4.4-1 (Audio/video encoders and decoders libraries)
FFMpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting
solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital VCR. It can encode in
real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio and video, MPEG4, h263,
ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash.
commit log from Hanspeter Niederstrasser (nieder@users.sourceforge.net):
ffmpeg: Upstream fix for build failures on 10.11 and earlier.2021-07-21: libopusfile0-shlibs-0.11-2 (Opus stream playback library)
The opusfile library provides seeking, decode, and playback of Opus
streams in the Ogg container (.opus files) including over http(s) on
posix and windows systems.
commit log from Daniel Macks (dmacks@netspace.org):
libopusfile: fixing some deps and -I ordering2021-07-21: imlib2-loaders-1.7.1-1 (Image handling library (extra loaders))
Imlib2 is the successor to Imlib. It is not just a newer version, it is a
completely new library. Imlib2 can be installed alongside Imlib 1.x
without any problems since they are effectively different libraries, but
they have very similar functionality.
This package contains extra image loaders for the Imlib2 library.
commit log from Daniel Macks (dmacks@netspace.org):
imlib2: new version, propagate x11 flag (in public API)2021-07-21: imlib2-1.7.1-1 (Image handling library for X11)
Imlib2 is the successor to Imlib. It is not just a newer version, it is a
completely new library. Imlib2 can be installed alongside Imlib 1.x
without any problems since they are effectively different libraries, but
they have very similar functionality.
commit log from Daniel Macks (dmacks@netspace.org):
imlib2: new version, propagate x11 flag (in public API)2021-07-19: deadbeef-1.8.7-2 (Music player)
DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux,
*BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems.
DeaDBeeF lets you play variety of audio formats, convert between them,
customize the UI almost any way you want, and use many additional
plugins which can extend it even more.
commit log from Daniel Macks (dmacks@netspace.org):
deadbeef: dep audit (still -I ordering weaknesses)
