Dmitry Marakasov @AMDmi3@fosstodon.org

Time to finish up and commit some accumulated work-in-progress on #FreeBSD #ports.

#Security section added to #repology. It lists recent CVEs linked to Repology projects (and thus, repository packages).

https://repology.org/security/recent-cves

#FOSS #contribution story: adding a new configuration option to #Doxygen

https://amdmi3.ru/posts/adding-an-option-to-doxygen/

Not many are aware of #FreeBSD file flags, and `nodump` flag in particular, but it's a very useful magic. Lets you mark (`chflags nodump`) a few files/directories (which you don't want to include into dumps/backups) and then exclude them when doing backups (`tar --nodump`) and measuring data size (`du -n`).

PS. Just checked Linux manpages it it seems it doesn't support this. Wow, really?

I've really hoped that migrating from rotten Travis CI to #GitHub actions would give me an up to date CI environment. Well that was naïve, atm GitHub is still serving Ubuntu 20.04 which causes ridiculous build problems due to its outdatedness.

Many thanks to #altlinux devs for providing comprehensive data on packages in their repositories to #repology. The more data from repositories the more use for package maintainers and #foss project developers.

https://github.com/repology/repology-updater/pull/1204

Status and some details on my work on #python 3.10 / 3.11 support in #FreeBSD ports

https://amdmi3.ru/posts/python-3.11-in-freebsd-ports/

A question to native English speakers: can you read this as "(anti-hair) fall" instead of "anti-(hair fall)"? Every time I see this I imagine cold winds which bring radioactive fallout which, well, makes your hair fall out. Or invasion of parasitic creatures which mimic dry leaves and feed on kerotin...

Yay, #repology has finally switched to #ython 3.10

Great, my first patch to #postgresql accepted https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/0207d5fbebed7eb698a7e5f3adf30fafe95bc4b9

New 256 core servers arrived
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Everybody suddenly investigating contention in allocator

We MUST identify individuals among us who have signed #RMS open letter. We also must identify people who have signed RMS support letter.

We need to thank people from both groups as people who _deeply care for Free Software movement_.

A little hack I've discovered today for ones who can't and don't want to get accustomed with nonsense `main` branches in git.

You can name you local branches as you like, but the problem is that you cannot do usual `git rebase origin/master` if remote branch is named differently.

The trick is `echo 'ref: refs/remotes/origin/main' > .git/refs/remotes/origin/master` which creates origin/master as an alias to origin/main, so you can always use `master` name.