TIL making .app wrappers on macOS for GUI apps distributed as simple binaries, such as those from pkgsrc, is piss easy.

Step 1: Create a directory named <App Name>.app
Step 2: Symlink the binary into the root of the .app directory with the same name as the directory but without the .app

That's literally it. You don't need to do anything else, it just works. Incredible.

#macOS #pkgsrc

bob v0.9.0 now available!

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2026/03/25/msg042765.html

I'm really proud of this one. Dynamic MAKE_JOBS and WRKOBJDIR in particular will save me a significant amount of time, and ensure my builds automatically stay optimal.

As always please let me know if you run into any issues or have suggestions for the next release.

#pkgsrc #bob #rustlang

Compilamos un "Bind" personalizado en SmartOS a partir de PkgSrc

https://blog.jcea.es/posts/20241206-pkgsrc_bind.html

#SmartOS #Illumos #OpenSolaris #Solaris #PkgSrc

Found a fun way to confuse #pkgsrc: set it up on a 64-bit Pi with a 32-bit OS. The kernel will be 64-bit still, causing search path confusion in check_shlibs.

The workaround, pending a better solution: bootstrap --machine-arch arm

Hey! I will speak at #OpenTofuDay Europe in Amsterdam on March 23!

In my talk, we will see how to package OpenTofu and its providers, and we will exercise that to migrate from Terraform 0.12.x to OpenTofu 1.11.x.

Talk schedule link: https://sched.co/2DY5x

For more info about OpenTofu Day Europe: https://bit.ly/41RUALZ

#CloudNativeCon #KubeCon #opentofu #pkgsrc #netbsd

I realise the "blazing fast" meme is getting very old at this point, but it's genuinely so much fun making Rust code even faster. You often end up with simpler, cleaner, more idiomatic code too.

The original C pbulk presolve code takes:

real 0m35.686s
user 0m35.229s
sys 0m0.163s

Bob was already much faster:

real 0m2.115s
user 0m1.677s
sys 0m0.174s

But the new code is ridiculously (some might say blazing) fast:

real 0m0.506s
user 0m0.396s
sys 0m0.106s

#pkgsrc

The NetBSD Foundation will participate to Google Summer of Code 2026!

Google Summer of Code is a great opportunity to contribute to NetBSD and/or pkgsrc!

To learn more please give a look to NetBSD Blog post: https://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_tnf

#netbsd #pkgsrc