@[email protected]

No longer using Twitter after the children took over.

You can find me over at

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

Well Twitter, it's been a fun 13 years, but I have no interest in being on a network run by children. It's only ever going to end badly.

I'll be over on https://t.co/AbLwvqNzAw if you happen to enjoy pkgsrc/illumos content.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

Seriously unimpressed with @Fly_Norwegian. 5 weeks since the UK ATC failure and still no refund on my rebooked flights, and still no communication from them at all.

Really disappointing, as I've flown with them a number of times, and until now thought they were a good airline.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

@jhamby You almost certainly want to use security/mozilla-rootcerts instead, you get the SSL certificates without onerous installation requirements.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

This turned out to be due to Content Caching from another Mac, which is clearly another feature that doesn't get any testing.

Turning off Content Caching fixes the problem. Won't be using that feature again!

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

Well that's not great Ventura:

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

No upgrade available in Software Update. You have to manually "xcode-select --install" to fix.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

Uh, ok. So now what happens?

Guess I'll be installing git from pkgsrc to get some work done today then.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

Strong and stable, strong and stable...

[Alan McGuinness @Alan_McGuinness]

My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs.

He's four months old.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

Will be up for review when I'm happy with it, but if you want an early preview and would like to help me test it then it's at https://t.co/ArhqTnGyzL

Will need a _lot_ of testing as I touched a _lot_ of code ;-)

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

Have been working on @pkgsrc performance again, this time general speedup of the pkgsrc/mk/ infrastructure so that all packages benefit.

Testing with pkgtools/url2pkg (short build time so shows up infrastructure performance):

Baseline: 12.48 seconds
Perf branch: 5.77 seconds

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

A very enjoyable day out at the @copse_croydon Gatliff 50km yesterday, first time at the event but won't be the last! Unmarked route, had to follow turn-by-turn instructions. Many thanks to all the volunteers!

Next up, Hurtwood 50k in 7 weeks, hoping to go sub-6.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

@JasperSiepkes Packages now available in trunk!

We also now have https://t.co/Mbl0NW5G9u which will hopefully consolidate efforts to support OpenJDK on illumos going forwards.

Thanks to @jmclulow for setting that up, and @ptribble for maintaining the patchset in newer releases.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

@aaisp Thanks! The kids pf(4) queue can have a little more bandwidth now ;-)

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

If you previously installed a macOS package repository from https://t.co/YloZKrCsKe, please follow the upgrade instructions to switch over to https://t.co/nc2hC7QZQc here:

https://t.co/FGJRRurF7O

The old repository, as well as the Mojave package set, will no longer be updated.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

If you run a lot of Rosetta apps on your ARM macOS, say running an x86 bulk build, be aware that /var/db/oah (managed by the undocumented oahd) will grow unbounded until your file system fills.

Thankfully killing oahd and deleting the directory appears unharmful, but takes ages.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

Building my own distribution based on Slackware and handling the libc5 -> glibc transition taught me a huge amount. Miss the days of being able to understand how an entire distribution worked and, even as a teenager, being able to approach it like Lego and build it how you want.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

Who here remembers Slackware Linux 3.5 setup from the 90s ???

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

@bahamat Oops, had the wrong tab active, so by default it was showing the x86_64 instructions. I've fixed that and also published the updated bootstrap kit.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

If anyone on Apple Silicon wants an early switch to the new package repo:

Grab https://t.co/LW1q3Nqtf0
Unpack over /
pkg_add -U pkgin libarchive openssl
pkgin clean
pkgin upgrade

Worked great on my local install. Full instructions will follow when the Intel binaries are ready.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

@papertigerss Looking pretty good so far, but I've basically done no tweaking yet, so will be plenty of room for optimising and balancing the concurrency.

[@[email protected] @jperkin]

Sweet, now that Apple have fixed native arm64 chroots, I have a Mac Studio performing simultaneous pkgsrc builds for both arm64 and x86_64.

Also using a patch I recently committed to build against a specific SDK, so there will shortly be new binary packages available for 11.3+.