@zekjur IIRC, in #pkgsrc, we decided to downgrade screen to version 4. Screen V5 had a pretty bad security issue early on and seems to be mostly downside and little upside.

Hot on the heels of the initial version, I've released bob 0.2.0.

This version supports full pkgsrc tree scans, and also has stats log support, which helped identify a significant win in pkgsrc scanning:

$ jq -s '[.[] | select(.event=="scan")] | sort_by(-.duration_ms) | .[0:3] | .[] | "\(.pkgpath): \(.duration_ms/1000 | strftime("%Mm %Ss"))"' stats.jsonl
"parallel/slurm-wlm: 01m 03s"
"geography/osm2pgsql: 00m 59s"
"chat/weechat: 00m 27s"

as detailed in:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2025/12/23/msg031810.html

#pkgsrc #bob

New output mode coming soon to bob, showing live build progress for each package build.

https://asciinema.org/a/763316

Ratatui is such a nice library!

#pkgsrc #bob #ratatui

If any pkgsrc users would like to beta test my new package builder, it's at the point where it's successfully building packages on NetBSD, Linux, and SmartOS.

Here's a screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/763171

It's designed to make it trivial to build packages correctly inside sandboxes, with very little configuration, and presented via a beautiful interface.

"cargo install pkgbob" (someone already name-squatted bob 🙄)

Let me know what features you need!

https://docs.rs/pkgbob/latest/pkgbob/

#pkgsrc #bob

@dokuwiki Wot no #pkgsrc?

Toot from pkgsrc/www/firefox-146.0b9 in my local pkgsrc tree under NetBSD/amd64-current... #pkgsrc #NetBSD

@meluzzy It does not contain the actual source code for the packages themselves, but yes it is a collection of recipes for how to build software, handling all sorts of things like dependencies and strict verification.

You can of course use it to build software from source on pretty much any POSIX system, but most users will just use a binary package repository such as the ones provided by NetBSD themselves, or mine from https://pkgsrc.smartos.org for a bunch of other operating systems.

#pkgsrc

I have been using #NetBSD lately and I don't really think I get how or what pkgsrc is.
Is it like a CVS repo that has a bunch of packages source code that you can just bmake? it has a lot of categories like www, graphics, games... For example www/firefox I assume it has the source code for Firefox and if you run bmake in that dir it compiles it? that's it right? It's just that I have seen guides where it seemed like #pkgsrc was used as a command instead of a repo.

Setting `general.useragent.override` in `about:config` to `Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0` (changing from NetBSD to Linux) does the trick.

But it's not nice!

#firefox #netbsd #pkgsrc

Hey Microsoft Outlook!
I'm running latest Mozilla Firefox ESR, 140.5.0 on NetBSD... that was released a couple of days ago!

I would not call it a legacy browser!

#firefox #netbsd #pkgsrc

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Microsoft Outlook web page that shows errors like ErrorOwaBasicUnsupportedLegacyBrowser and some SyntaxError due using Firefox on NetBSD (probably they do not known about NetBSD and relies on only known User-Agent:-s).

I've also published an new 20251114 bootstrap kit. This isn't necessary if you already have an install (the steps above will get you past the problem without it), but means new users will not run into the issue.

https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

#pkgsrc #macOS

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT for anyone using my macOS package repository from https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

There's a subtle upgrade scenario I didn't test correctly, and your next upgrade will fail due to PGP key bootstrap issues.

To fix:

$ pkgin -d upgrade
$ t=$(mktemp -d); cd $t
$ ar x /var/db/pkgin/cache/pkg_install-20250417.tgz
$ pkg_add -C /dev/null -U pkg_install-20250417.tmp.tgz
$ pkgin upgrade

Once you're past that everything should be fine. Really sorry for the inconvenience.

#pkgsrc #macOS

@bill Is that in #pkgsrc?

Toot from pkgsrc/www/firefox-145.0b9 under NetBSD/amd64-current... #pkgsrc #NetBSD

Last weekend I have been to Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit as an org mentor for The NetBSD Foundation!

It has been a fantastic experience and I have just shared some travel notes: https://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_mentor_summit

#netbsd #pkgsrc

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Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2025 Leonardo Taccari (The NetBSD Foundation), Mentor badge with several swag and stickers from the event.

"Something this critical should come with base-OS."

(user missing the point of #PkgSrc )

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia was great!

At NetBSD devsummit I have presented «Running Docker (and more) in NetBSD via Lima». Lima (<https://lima-vm.io/>) permits to run Linux virtual machines (as guests) - with port forwarding and volumes sharing - and I have showed how NetBSD is supported and works as host!

Slides available at <https://www.NetBSD.org/gallery/presentations/leot/eurobsdcon2025-devsummit-lima/lima.pdf>.

I have now also imported Lima in pkgsrc as sysutils/lima.

#EBC25 #netbsd #pkgsrc

acme-client(1) now available on pkgsrc.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2025/10/20/msg332440.html

#acme #pkgsrc

I don't need many fingers to count Linux distributions that still support armv6 (e.g. first raspberry Pie). I need even less fingers to count armv6 supporting distributions that still have ports/packages for any useful web browser.
Am currently counting 3. @alpinelinux @debian @gentoo

For the *BSDs I count maybe 1. Have not checked whether epiphany is compilable on @netbsd #pkgsrc. There is no binary package for earmv6hf.

I've updated my binary package repository for PowerPC Mac OS X. New and updated packages for curl, git, python 3.10, apache, nginx, openssh, rsync, yt-dlp, vim, zsh, tmux, and many more.

https://netbsd.org/~nia/tigersrc/

#dreckly #pkgsrc #powerpc #macos #retrocomputing #hashtags

I guess pg_upgrade doesn't work with #pkgsrc because only one server version can be installed and run. Sigh.

pkgin 25.10.0 released.

Fixes an issue where changes to the pkgdb outside of pkgin operations (e.g. manually running pkg_add) could affect subsequent upgrades and lose autoremove information.

I'll get this into the SmartOS and macOS trunk builds over the weekend.

#pkgin #pkgsrc

This was a while back.
#netbsd #pkgsrc

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Monitor of a DECstation 5000/200 with X, running some xterms and the Netscape web browser. The foreground xterm shows cvs updating NetBSD pkgsrc. The background xterm shows me on either IRC or ICB - don't remember. xearth is populating the background.

echo srs.dom.ain > control/srs_domain
echo "$SECRET" > control/srs_secrets
echo srs.dom.ain >> control/rcpthosts
echo srs.dom.ain:srs >> control/virtualdomains
echo "| srsfilter" > alias/.qmail-srs-default

+ MX for srs.dom.ain

Want to SMTP-reject SPF failures when the source domain specifies explicit-fail?

1. Add SPP_SPF_RESULT_FAIL="E550 spf_smtp_msg" to
control/tcprules/smtp
2. Run "/etc/rc.d/qmailsmtpd cdb"
3. There is no 3rd thing, is that clear?

The default SMTP configuration rejects nonexistent recipients.

(qmail famously accepts all recipients for its domains even when those recipients don't exist, and then has to queue totally avoidable bounce messages. But you won't.)

To enable #greylisting, simply uncomment "greylisting-spp-wrapper" in control/smtpplugins. That’s it.

(Add any exempt recipient addresses to control/greylist/exemptrcpts, or entire recipient domains to control/greylist/exemptrcpthosts.)

You should know #pkgsrc 2025Q3 was released yesterday:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2025/09/25/msg042016.html

#netbsd

Today I tagged #pkgsrc 2025Q3. Announcement forthcoming.

@venya reaper works on Linux, that's why I got a license. VSTs, tho, are another thing.

Well, otherwise there is #pkgsrc on mac, that might help without having to dual boot...

Hi :)

...moved instance. Now running self-hosted on SmartOS.

If you don't know me yet, I mostly post about #illumos and #pkgsrc things.

I added the #odinlang language server 'ols' to #pkgsrc wip.

Toot from pkgsrc/www/firefox-143.0b9 under NetBSD/amd64-current... #pkgsrc #NetBSD

I just updated #odinlang in #pkgsrc wip. Im looking for people that would like to test on #NetBSD

I've switched my macOS arm64 binary package builds over to targeting the 14.5 SDK. This is necessary to continue to support modern software with newer C++ requirements.

If you are still on the 12.3 SDK packages then head over to https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/ and follow the "ARM 14.5+ (upgrade)" instructions.

If you are new to this, follow the main instructions to install the full bootstrap kit.

#pkgsrc #macos

Usenet Reborn [0], a terminal‑based NNTP client written in Rust (by @rek2), is now available on pkgsrc.

[0] https://sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn/
#nntp #usenet #smolweb #pkgsrc

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Screenshot of a terminal window running usenet_reborn. On the left, a column listing subscribed newsgroups, and on the right pane, a threaded view of the comp.infosystems.gopher group.