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undeadly honked 30 Jul 2025 11:00 +0200

Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD

Much longed for by some, remembered as a quaint memory by other greybeards, the classic Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is being added to the ports collection.

The initial commit message reads,

List:       openbsd-ports-cvs
Subject:    CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports
From:       Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot () cvs ! openbsd ! org>
Date:       2025-07-28 12:35:38

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	ports
Changes by:	ajacoutot@cvs.openbsd.org	2025/07/28 06:35:38

Log message:
    Import cde-2.5.2
    
    CDE - The Common Desktop Environment is X Windows desktop environment that was
    commonly used on commercial UNIX variants such as Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM
    AIX. Developed between 1993 and 1999, it has now been released under an Open
    Source licence by The Open Group.

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undeadly honked 26 Jul 2025 10:27 +0200

Game of Trees 0.116 released

Version 0.116 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated):

  • make our pack-refs header format align with the expectations of git 2.50.0
  • fix bogus "bad offset in pack file" errors wrongly raised by gotd
  • fix gotd branch protection rejecting commits that already exist on server
  • pick a default branch to clone when the server does not advertise HEAD symref
  • do not clobber changes staged via stage -p during "got revert"
  • enforce additional restrictions on reference names specified in gotsys.conf
  • change gotwebd favicons to show the smiley fish only
  • fix gotd reload when /etc/gotd-secrets.conf is used
  • fix bogus "raw object has unexpected size" errors during deltification
  • fix bug in delta block stretch size calculation resulting in invalid deltas
  • fix gotsysd behaviour when the anonymous user is removed from gotsys.conf
  • add support for email and http/json notifications to gotsysd and gotsys.conf