Mastodawn

Okay, I hit a crazy #OpenBSD (or possibly Perl) peculiarity today. For background context, OpenBSD's pkg_* tools are all written in Perl.

Testing stuff in a discussion with @rl_dane, I had cause to throw ktrace on the pkg_info command like

$ ktrace -f pkg_info.ktrace pkg_info -Q remind

All said, fairly boring. But when I was browsing through the dump

$ kdump -R -f pkg_info.ktrace | less

I found that it did a stat(2) call on every single file in my current working directory:

$ kdump -f pkg_info.ktrace -R | awk '/NAMI *"\./{++c; print}END{print "Total count:", c}'

This means that pkg_info runs noticeably faster in an empty directory than if run in a directory containing tens of thousands of files, especially if the machine uses a spinning-rust HDD rather than flash storage.

I haven't read the pkg_info source code deeply since I don't natively do perl, so I'm uncertain whether pkg_info is intentionally stat'ing every file, or whether perl just does this as part of its startup, but it seemed like a really weird behavior..

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Jez Caudle

10h ago

@willb Had to add the vCard MIME type to #openbsd httpd server. And it works now on iOS with Safari but not as smoothly with Firefox. Which is all part of Apple’s lock-in strategy.

OpenBSD Amsterdam 15h ago

📣 News from OpenBSD Amsterdam!
We are thrilled to welcome server29 to the pool/fleet/armada/etc.. 🎉

#RUNBSD #OpenBSD

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R.L. Dane

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15h ago

@darkuncle @gumnos

There doesn't seem to be an #OpenBSD pkg or port for that, unless I'm somehow getting the name wrong.

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Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺17h ago

@brendan I use an #OpenBSD firewall. In base, there is dhcp6leased which will request you PD from ABB and then you assign that accordingly. You’ll need inet6 autoconf on your WAN interface to setup link local with ABB the PD request will pass.

I originally wrote the how to over on whirlpool on bringing things up with dhcpcd from ports that works with both Open and FreeBSD https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/aussie_broadband_ipv6_router_settings

EuroBSDCon 17h ago

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Planning to submit a talk? Now is the time!

Especially first time speakers and talk submissions for #NetBSD and #OpenBSD!

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The schedule will be published on 🗓️ 2026-07-15

For everything else, peek at https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
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R.L. Dane

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1d ago

Finally have the excellent terminal browser #chawan running in OpenBSD!

IIRC, #nim wasn't available for #OpenBSD before? Or was I just dreaming that? XD

R.L. Dane

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1d ago

I love #OpenBSD (and all the BSDs, heck all the #FOSS OSes, they're all amazing), but y'all, this is a bit sad:

$ time pkg_info -Q nim
animorph-0.3p5
minimodem-0.24p0
nim-2.2.8 (installed)
openimageio-3.1.9.0p0
p5-Bit-Vector-Minimal-1.3p2
p5-Net-IP-Minimal-0.06p1
p5-Term-Animation-2.6p1
py3-minimalmodbus-2.1.1p2
py3-minimock-1.2.8p13
racket-minimal-9.1
texlive_texmf-minimal-2025p0
xanim-2.80.1p9

real	1m3.110s
user	0m1.360s
sys	0m0.120s

I know about pkg_locate, and I use it by default, honestly, but "that's not in base!" ;)

My network speed is a bit slow, but not that slow.

$ speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from T-Mobile USA...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Frontier (Dallas, TX) [2449.63 km]: 28.121 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 12.64 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 6.27 Mbit/s

R.L. Dane

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1d ago

#OpenBSD & #vi / #nvi peeps,

Can someone help me figure out the difference between these two packages? Is there anything I'd need from the iconv variant in normal (monoglot) use?