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.

SmartOS: Stock "mkvtoolnix" crashes on 2023.4.0 with locale error

https://blog.jcea.es/posts/20240813-mkvtoolnix_locale.html

#SmartOS #PkgSrc #GCC #Illumos #Debugging

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

(user missing the point of #PkgSrc )

Because it is an OpenBSD special day, I did some... pkgsrc things 🤭
Anyway...

If you are interested in running #Monit on an #illumos zone using #pkgsrc, I send an SMF file to the mailing list. It will require a bit more knowledge than what I have to get it integrated probably. So if you own that knowledge and are interested in this, you can get the quick and dirty material here: https://marc.info/?l=pkgsrc-users&m=176114052611906&w=2

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

How to pin a "pkgin" package, what is the right way to deploy my own packages?

https://blog.jcea.es/posts/20240616-pkgsrc_pin.rst.html

#SmartOS #PkgSrc

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.

#pkgsrc will be in "careful mode" starting next Monday. I would like to move the default Go version to 1.25 before that. There are a few packages whose build is broken with 1.25 and which are not trivial to fix :(

And I thought #golang had a compatibility promise!

@gumnos 32-bit GCC 2 Haiku running on a 25 year old CPU is going to my weirdest #pkgsrc bootstrap yet 😄 . Hopefully it supports the hardware, let's see.

I also wanted to do #Tribblix but it doesn't do 32-bit. Fair enough

My laptop is building pkgsrc/www/firefox-142.0 for NetBSD as final precommit check. #pkgsrc #NetBSD

#introduction ― I decided to create an alt account here to allow me
to connect more easily with SDF community.

My primary focus will be on tech-related things I like:
#pkgsrc on #netbsd #illumos and #slackware
#unix #sdf #gopher #smolnet #usenet #dos #c #lisp
#selfhosting #homeserver #permacomputing #lowtech
#hamradio #progrock #progmetal #ambient #postrock
#90s #scifi #cyberpunk #novels #seinen #manga

はてなブログに投稿しました
NetBSD/amd64,i386 10.1 ておくれLive Image 20250815版 - tsutsuiの作業記録置き場 https://tsutsui.hatenablog.com/entry/teokure20250815
#はてなブログ #NetBSD #pkgsrc #mikutter

Dunno what it was with the networking earlier but e1000 did work. Success! 🥳 #pkgsrc

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Screenshot of Tribblix with pkgsrc bootstrap completed

In case anyone else stumbles on this, I got pkgsrc's fetch failing on Void Linux with "SSL support disabled". Had to add the "openssl" option to net/libfetch and "make replace" that and net/fetch. #pkgsrc #VoidLinux

Am giving FUSE-t a spin on my #pkgsrc #macOS build host, allegedly it's a significant improvement over macFUSE (no kext sounds good!).

Unfortunately it clearly isn't.

"FUSE-T offers much better performance and this is due to excellent macOS client side NFSv4 implementation"

I've had many issues with macOS NFS over the years, and it's really no surprise to me that this is just blatantly false.

When you can tell just from watching the speed of ./configure output scrolling you know it's bad.

@justine What’s in my homelab? Hmmm…

The main NAT router / IPv6 router / firewall / DNS / DHCP / stratum 1 time server is a 2014 era AMD Athlon. Way back Fry’s Electronics was selling AM1 motherboards with quad core 2 GHz Athons, heat sinks and fans for something like $45. I bought quite a few. They’re reasonbly fast, tiny (mini-ITX), take very little power, and can take 32 gigs of memory.

My distcc / VM / qemu / NFS / sequence alignment system is a Ryzen 5900X with 64 gigs.

Building #NetBSD #pkgsrc binary packages are:

• Dual 1 GHz AlphaServer DS25 with 12 gigs of memory and mirrored SSDs compiling Alpha packages
• Original Raspberry Pi and RPi Zero compiling earmv4 packages
• Plextor PX-EH25L compiling sh3el packages
• VAXstation 4000/60 compiling VAX packages
• Pine Rock64 compiling aarch64eb packages
• Raspberry Pi 4 with hardware mirrored USB enclosure which runs as NFS server for all the pkgsrc build machines.

Then, for m68k packages:

• 1U Quadra 605, 33 MHz ‘040
• Quadra 610 with CPU clock doubler, 50 MHz ‘040
• Quadra 630, 40 MHz ‘040
• Amiga 4000 with Cyberstorm Mk III, 66 MHz ‘060

I also have a Sun Fire V245 to compile sparc & sparc64 pkgsrc packages, but that takes more power than the AlphaServer and the Ryzen 5900X combined, so I only run that in the winter.

I'd prefer #NetBSD: https://schmonz.com/2024/06/07/small-arms/

Staged latest shairport-sync for #pkgsrc. Builds on NetBSD, #macOS. Normally I'd commit, wait for evbearmv6hf-el binary package, forget.

Trying something new today: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-use-crosscompile