Someone on the #NetBSD #pkgsrc security team woke up to 2000 new tickets over night in the queue this week.

Wow. The updates to the #php packages in #pkgsrc were updated to 8.5.12, 8.4.27 and 8.3.36, respectively, by 1358Z. Building and in-place update went smoothly. My #nextcloud is patched and back in operation.
I'm impressed. Thank you!
#NetBSD #homeserver #selfhosting.

@Tevis

This is the sort of thing that devpubd(8) hooks are for. And you'll find that there's already a sysutils/devpub-mount in #pkgsrc.

#NetBSD #devpubd

Really pleased to have helped the test framework for compat_linux for #NetBSD land in #pkgsrc today:
https://pkgsrc.se/emulators/compat_linux_test_project

So get testing and fixing those low-hanging fruit!

@ParadeGrotesque

It has a ring of Debian kFreeBSD to it.

But there's more to it than APK instead of #pkgsrc. It's based around @ska's #s6 and #execline and suchlike. Of course, those are also available on actual #NetBSD too.

I suspect that it's not aimed at people who want to switch operating systems as such, but at people who use #AlphineLinux but who do not want to have #Linux as part of that any more.

#AlpineBSD #Debian

@m3tti @linear @stevelord

virsh could be an option, but I don't think it has been ported to #NetBSD yet.

EDIT: even though there is a port of 'libvirt' in #pkgsrc ... Interesting...

https://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/libvirt

@scops It's in pkgsrc-wip, but not imported into main #pkgsrc yet

https://pkgsrc.se/wip/librewolf

Just uploaded the #ChiPass (the slopless fork of the KeePassXC package manager) and #Fooyin (a QT-based music player with an anti-LLM policy and a cool UI) to the wip repo of #PKGSRC, a tool used for building packages for many OSes and the native packaging system for #NetBSD. They're available as "wip/chipass" and "wip/fooyin" if you want to try them out. Let me know if you have any problems.

If you haven't set up wip already, you'll need to clone the repo for it inside of the main PKGSRC repo.

At the moment both have patches to fix pathing issues under NetBSD, I'll hopefully have time later today file some bugs later today to try to fix these upstream.

If you are using my macOS packages available from https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/ then note that due to newer compiler and SDK requirements, the 14.5 package set will no longer be updated, and there is a newer 15.5 SDK target now available.

Upgrade instructions are available here: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2026/10/15/msg043607.html

#pkgsrc #macos

@kramaker @Vivaldi Chromium is already in #pkgsrc so ready to go on #NetBSD. It was updated to version 155 a couple of days ago.

@algernon FWIW I did exactly this for a while at https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-netbsd/ but it wasn't that popular so I stopped the updates and re-used the machine for normal pkgsrc testing and bob development. I do wonder with the recent interest whether it would be worth starting it up again though (and obviously upgrade to 11.0)

#netbsd #pkgsrc

#NetBSD newcomers will find this interesting #NASA @NASA uses #pkgsrc for NAS with their Linux system

https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/support/kb/using-software-packages-in-pkgsrc_493.html

@rqm @soapdog @chadmccullough @toxy

https://pkgsrc.se/

#pkgsrc #NetBSD #SmartOS

Advanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment

Week 5: make(1)

Let's take a look at how the make(1) utility can be used to help us selectively build our code project. You don't need much to get started -- built-in default suffix rules make this easy -- but with time you can build complex build frameworks (see, e.g., #NetBSD's #pkgsrc system). We'll leave the question whether or not make(1) is Turing-complete for another day...

https://youtu.be/WLTuUtj7LPw

I am updating #pkgsrc/lang/wasi-libc to fix build of pkgsrc/www/firefox-158 with LLVM 22.

@gumnos

pkgng was not a precise drop-in replacement for the old system, and there are these differences in command-line usage.

But I personally think that they pale in comparison to #Debian where one has to remember whether the command one wants is dpkg, one of the dpkg-* ones, apt, one of the apt-* ones, or perhaps aptitude.

And there are subtle differences between dist-upgrade, safe-upgrade, and full-upgrade.

That's before we even reach the wider world of pacman/rpm/dnf/emerge/zypper/apt-cyg/apt-get/yum.

Or tix, for that matter, which has no 'info' subcommand, according to its manual. (-:

https://pub.sortix.org/sortix/release/nightly/man/man8/tix.8.html

@rl_dane
#ArchLinux #pkgsrc #Sortix

Toot from #pkgsrc/www/firefox-158.0rc2 under #NetBSD/amd64 -current...

Updated binary packages on my T430 #NetBSD Laptop yesterday using #pkgsrc 2026Q3. All went great.

Note one minor thing, if you move to #emacs31 you may need to add this exact line to the very first line of ~/.emacs and any other personal .el files:

;; -*- lexical-binding: nil -*-

This will avoid an error prompt about lexical-binding on statrup.

I was already a little annoyed that Apple replaced rsync with openrsync, as it broke some of my own personal ways of working (e.g. listing remote directories), but now the version in macOS 27 is also breaking "bob publish" because it has an incompatible --delete-excluded implementation.

#pkgsrc to the rescue once again, but please stop breaking things.

@r1w1s1 @ParadeGrotesque I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes, and apologies for "short-circuiting" the eh Makefile, (which looks like it took a lot of time was spent on it), but I added eh version 1.9.0 to #pkgsrc as editors/eh https://mstdn.social/@pkgsrcchanges/117396740146577723

Pkgsrc Changes » 🤖 🌐 2026-10-07
@pkgsrcchanges@mstdn.social

editors: Makefile
editors/eh: DESCR Makefile PLIST distinfo

agc: Add and enable editors/eh, version 1.9.0, to the packages collection

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/editors/Makefile.diff?r1=1.270&r2=1.271
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/editors/eh/DESCR?rev=1.1
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/editors/eh/PLIST?rev=1.1
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/editors/eh/distinfo?rev=1.1

Bit disappointing.

Upgraded pkgsrc macOS build host from 14.x to 27.0.1, and MacFUSE to latest.

First run is showing consistently slower builds.

bindfs CPU usage seems higher, but I don't have accurate numbers on that. Also there is still the 2 minute delay to unmount /System.

Maybe next year?

#pkgsrc #macos #macfuse

@jspath55

The most likely causes were the calls to ctype functions in xft_word_wrap(), but those were changed to use unsigned char in 6.15. So if this really is 6.15 as claimed, the ctype negative character bug is no longer there to be hit, from a cursory inspection.

The sensible first step would be to get a core dump.

#xscreensaver #pkgsrc #NetBSD

@mrgtwentythree @stefano@bsd.cafe @dch @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it Feeling rather guilty we didn't get it into #pkgsrc for 2026Q3 given it's been on #NetBSD throughout its development especially as #FreeBSD had a Day 1 release

@gourd #pkgsrc knows all about this, so you could knock up your own local package and take advantage of that infrastructure. Take a look at gam; the penultimate two lines do the magic:

https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/sysutils/gam/Makefile?rev=1.28;content-type=text%2Fplain

Hey folks!

I have written some travel notes from EuroBSDCon 2026, Brussels, Belgium:

https://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/eurobsdcon_2026_in_brussels_belgium

The conference was amazing and I had a lot of fun and learned a bunch!
Thanks to everyone who made it possible!

#EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon #NetBSD #pkgsrc #FreeBSD #OpenBSD

Alt...

Photograph showing a diagonal light over my EuroBSDCon 2026 badge. Near the badge there are a lot of BSD-related stickers. BSD-NL, NetBSD, pkgsrc, BSDCan, BSD, BSD Cafe, Run BSD and Run BSD Stop Fascism.

@meanmicio someone should port it to #pkgsrc :)

For those of you who follow this thing, I just realized I missed the announcement that pkgsrc 2026Q3 was released on 26th September, 2 days ago!

Thanks to @bentsukun and all the wonderful people behind #pkgsrc ...

(it will never be not funny that the announcement on their web page always lags behind the official release message) 😄

@Unsightly3055 We don't decide on which software to port to pkgsrc or not, it's just around 100 of us, plus contributors, who spend time creating and updating packages for things that we use.

We love it when people get involved and help out packaging up the software that they like and need, and we're looking forward to welcoming new contributors as they migrate from Linux.

Until then, yeh you can usually run Linux binaries using the emulation, or even still run VMs for a bit.

#netbsd #pkgsrc

I have just ported Presto server to NetBSD. It is trivial however running without launcher.py was difficult. I will add it to #pkgsrc later.

I have confirmed that #pkgsrc/www/firefox-156 is ready to commit to pkgsrc tree. However I found 156.0.1. I will commit my update tomorrow.

📦 pkgsrc Is Cool // Wisellama

｢ Pkgsrc is NetBSD’s package manager, but thanks to NetBSD’s portability philosophy, pkgsrc is fully supported as a package manager on other Unix-like operating systems like Linux, Mac, and Solaris. It supports installing binary packages, but the reason I was interested in it is that pkgsrc supports building packages from source as well ｣

https://www.wisellama.rocks/posts/2021-12-23-pkgsrc-is-cool/

#pkgsrc #NetBSD #opensource

It looks like I'm going to break @schmonz's #pkgsrc patches, but in a good way.

It's looking like close to time to put #redo 1.6 out.

@kyonshi

Both nettle and and mbedtls3 are packaged in #pkgsrc. So it looks like the only things missing are pihole-FTL, which is probably fairly straightforward to package, and a version of that vast install shell script that doesn't have all of the wacky creating secret packages nonsense in it and just does the configuration parts. (pkgsrc itself can handle creating and depending from a pihole-meta package.)

#NetBSD

Today's rabbit hole:

* gitea broken due to sqlite.go update
* sqlite.go blocked by libsqlite3.go
* libsqlite3.go blocked by libc.go
* fix libc.go
* libsqlite3.go now blocked by upstream sqlite bug
* caused by "-Wl,-R" in shell scripts getting brace expanded when converted to tcl array

Turtles.

#pkgsrc #illumos

Hmm... #pkgsrc/audio/pavucontrol does not drawn properly by pkgsrc/wip/mesa-26. It emits DRI3 error storm.

@nafmo

The Xu #Debian #AlmquistShell now has a patch for ;& in case statements.

https://github.com/jdebp/slashpackage/blob/trunk/shells/dash-0.5.13.5-xu/package/patches/case_fall_through.patch

This is against the latest Xu version, so should be a fairly simple drop-in for everyone who builds from that, including #FreeBSD ports, #pkgsrc, and so forth.

I'm not entirely happy about the EV_EXIT flag interaction, and how -e is supposed to affect case fallthrough.

@mirabilos @rl_dane

Alt...

A terminal session in white on black. At the Xu Debian Almquist Shell prompt, first the read_os shell function is run, showing the PRETTY_NAME of the operating system to be Debian 13 (trixie). Then $DASH_VERSION is echoed, which is 0.5.13.5. Finally, a case statement making use of the now standardized ";&" clause terminator is entered. The output generated shows that it fell through from the clause where the pattern "t" matched, to the next clause down.

#pkgsrc/wip/mesa-26 works fine for me. pkgsrc/www/firefox-155.0.1 does not crash anymore when F11 key is pressed.

#pkgsrc/wip/mesa-26 works fine for my #NetBSD/amd64-current. pkgsrc/www/firefox does not crash anymore when F11 key is pressed.

I am trying #pkgsrc/wip/mesa again.

@raster

Which package is it?

And have you ensured that the make that you are running is BSD make, not GNU make? (It does say bmake in the instructions, notice; but your posts said make and Debian.)

#pkgsrc #Debian #make #NetBSD

While I am a firm believer in using all available tools to improve the software I work on, I do really like that NetBSD's firm and unequivocal anti-LLM stance is proving popular, and helping it to gain traction.

To all the new users I'm seeing over the past few weeks, welcome! Hope we can help you get up and running.

#netbsd #pkgsrc

Hmm... #pkgsrc/wip/mesa causes many build failures. And they are not trivial.