Busy week upgrading all VMs to #NetBSD 10.1 to allow switching to HVM from PV (as #XenServer and @xcpng have dropped support for PV and unfortunately do not support PVH either) which means moving to uEFI booting rather than pygrub loading the kernel. Just waiting for the next #pkgsrc quarterly release to move the remainder over with nice fresh packages.

lang/pear has to be one of the most frustrating pieces of software to package correctly.

Pretty much every avenue I try to go down ends up with a big fat "nope".

Current status is unpacking, patching, repacking, and then running .phar files, but that appears to only half work (the stub runs but then it can't include support files, even though they are in the archive).

Feels like they go out of their way to make this as difficult as possible.

#pkgsrc

MXkill is an X/Motif based interface to ps, with support for signals and regex parsing.
Now available on pkgsrc.

#x11 #motif #retrotech #pkgsrc

Alt...

mxkill window, showing output for`ps eaux | sort +0 -1', with all running processes indexed. A "Regular Expression" bar at the bottom allows to parse regex. Motif widgets, with a theme mimicking IRIX desktop on mwm.

I have just enabled debug option for pkgsrc/lang/perl5. It enables -DDEBUGGING and perl -D. #pkgsrc

Toot from pkgsrc/www/firefox-139.0.1 under NetBSD/amd64-current. #pkgsrc #NetBSD

If you have missed The NetBSD Foundation 2025 Annual General Meeting you can read more and find logs here!:

https://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/agm2025

#netbsd #pkgsrc

@rohare em was the first editor I ever used, so I updated the sources from v6 to modernish (the last argument to seek(2) originally used options to work in blocks, not bytes, for example). I added em to #pkgsrc a while ago, so it should be avalable for all platforms that pkgsrc supports

Experiences with #dreckly / #pkgsrc on obscure Unixes:

#UnixWare - bootstrap succeeded! Just needed a few simple fixes.
#OpenServer - see UnixWare.
#BSDOS - kernel panic during installation. Support incomplete.
#HPUX - kernel panic during installation.
#QNX - bootstrap success! No changes needed.
#Haiku - bootstrap failed due to open() behaviour. "Invalid argument".

If you have a shell on an #IRIX or #HPUX machine, please let me know!

All right, pkgsrc 2025Q1 has just been announced on the mailing lists.

It's not even on pkgsrc.org yet! 😉

#pkgsrc #NetBSD