🎉 100th post on this instance running the latest homemade gotosocial-0.22.1 pkgsrc NetBSD package
Lets push the update to pkgsrc-wip 📦
#gotosocial #pkgsrc #netbsd
Jonathan Perkin
@jperkin@federate.me.uk
Senior Software Engineer at #EdgeCast. 
I provide https://pkgsrc.smartos.org, a cross-platform package manager with binary packages for #macOS, #illumos, #Linux, #NetBSD. I also help develop #SmartOS and #TritonDataCenter, a complete open source cloud stack to run your entire datacenter. Previously: #Joyent, #Oracle, #Sun, #MySQL, #BBC, #Netcraft. Pianist. Coffee nerd. Ultra runner. Bullet Chess. #pkgsrc #rust #parkrun #LFC. I only follow hashtags.
federate.me.uk
Decided to dig into what I initially suspected was hardware issues on a host performing "pkgin upgrade" very slowly.
No, turns out it's legitimate requests hammering the disks, with pkg_delete performing an MD5 check on every file it is about to forcibly remove anyway.
Eventually it'd be nice to add a flag for this, but for now I've removed it for my builds:
https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/commit/87055e3a0c53f409a0cf1efa887a3cb96afe0757
This will be in macOS and SmartOS builds soon, and will significantly improve upgrade performance.
#pkgsrc
portability(TM) #netbsd #pkgsrc #tigersrc
- alix3d3 (i586) - it finds out what uses SSE2 when it shouldn't
- er4 (evbmips64n64eb) - it finds out when things hardcode a list of supported archs
- mac mini (powerpc; usually runs darwin) - it finds out when things don't specify a c/c++ lang std
- olimex a64 (aarch64) - it finds out when the arm drivers get too piney.
- banana pi (earmv7hfeb) - ugh.
- blade 150 (sparc64, bottom) - it finds out EVERYTHING.
100% not running 24/7.
Jonathan Perkin
@jperkin@federate.me.uk
Senior Software Engineer at #EdgeCast. I provide https://pkgsrc.smartos.org, a cross-platform package manager with binary packages for #macOS, #illumos, #Linux, #NetBSD. I also help develop #SmartOS and #TritonDataCenter, a complete open source cloud stack to run your entire datacenter. Previously: #Joyent, #Oracle, #Sun, #MySQL, #BBC, #Netcraft. Pianist. Coffee nerd. Ultra runner. Bullet Chess. #pkgsrc #rust #parkrun #LFC. I only follow hashtags.
federate.me.uk
If you've ever built a non-trivial amount of software on Solaris / illumos you've almost certainly hit math function errors like this:
error: call of overloaded 'log(int)' is ambiguous
I got fed up of adding patches to pkgsrc, and I believe I have a patch that fixes this once and for all.
https://www.illumos.org/issues/15209#note-4
I'd appreciate wider testing. I've already tested it in a full ~28,000 package bulk build, but changes like this terrify me, and you can't be too careful.
#solaris #illumos #pkgsrc
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