Epic lightning storm off the coast of France last night.

Later this week pkgsrc.joyent.com will be CNAME'd to pkgsrc.smartos.org. If you haven't already switched your repositories over I strongly recommend doing so as soon as possible. smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos… See quoted tweet for instructions on switching over.

Getting frustrated with TeX Live taking nearly 3 hours just to run install scripts at the end of a pkgsrc bulk build, due to generating internal databases that scales quadratically. Would appreciate any clues from people who know TeX and how to mitigate. mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2022/…

VNC into macOS Monterey, if the screen saver comes on, there's no way to turn it off! No amount of mashing the mouse or keyboard or even killing ScreenSaverEngine over SSH works. I tried killing the session entirely (only non-root PIDs), and that crashed the machine...

Fair play to Apple's OS folks, I give them stick for breaking things a lot, but it looks like they've finally fixed being able to create arm64 chroots. I'll no longer need to effectively cross-compile pkgsrc packages inside an x86_64 chroot. mobile.twitter.com/jperkin/status…

Bit later than planned, but this is now done. If you are seeing any errors from your package updates, first check that you followed the upgrade instructions if using an affected repository, otherwise let me know of any issues.

Sweet, now that Apple have fixed native arm64 chroots, I have a Mac Studio performing simultaneous pkgsrc builds for both arm64 and x86_64. Also using a patch I recently committed to build against a specific SDK, so there will shortly be new binary packages available for 11.3+.

If anyone on Apple Silicon wants an early switch to the new package repo: Grab pkgsrc.smartos.org/packages/Darwi… Unpack over / pkg_add -U pkgin libarchive openssl pkgin clean pkgin upgrade Worked great on my local install. Full instructions will follow when the Intel binaries are ready.

Building my own distribution based on Slackware and handling the libc5 -> glibc transition taught me a huge amount. Miss the days of being able to understand how an entire distribution worked and, even as a teenager, being able to approach it like Lego and build it how you want.

If you run a lot of Rosetta apps on your ARM macOS, say running an x86 bulk build, be aware that /var/db/oah (managed by the undocumented oahd) will grow unbounded until your file system fills. Thankfully killing oahd and deleting the directory appears unharmful, but takes ages.

If you previously installed a macOS package repository from pkgsrc.joyent.com, please follow the upgrade instructions to switch over to pkgsrc.smartos.org here: pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-mac… The old repository, as well as the Mojave package set, will no longer be updated.

A very enjoyable day out at the COPSE - Croydon Outdoor Pursuits and Social Events Gatliff 50km yesterday, first time at the event but won't be the last! Unmarked route, had to follow turn-by-turn instructions. Many thanks to all the volunteers! Next up, Hurtwood 50k in 7 weeks, hoping to go sub-6.

Strong and stable, strong and stable...

Seriously unimpressed with Norwegian. 5 weeks since the UK ATC failure and still no refund on my rebooked flights, and still no communication from them at all. Really disappointing, as I've flown with them a number of times, and until now thought they were a good airline.