On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 06:15:22PM GMT, A Tammy wrote:
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>On 9/12/24 5:29 AM, UDENIX wrote:
>> I understand that these replacements written in Rust for the base
>> system utilities may have additional functionality that may be useful,
>> but how far are we going to go with this? Do you intend to replace the
>> entire OpenBSD userspace with these new tools written in Rust? If this
>> is the case, and what you want is an imitation of UNIX written in
>> Rust, you could use Redox OS [1], I think you will be happier with it
>> than with OpenBSD.
>>
>> [1]: https://redox-os.org
>>
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>I wouldn't be so pessimistic, the younger generation comes up with
>cooler tools and we get to learn about them ;)
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>I quite like dust, it's working nicely on my system. The graphical
>output is nice too.
Thanks for testing out my port.
>The problem with this kind of port is that there's a lot of these disk
>usage tools. Good news is that none of the tools I could find are in the
>ports tree. I haven't tried any of the other disk usage tools, so I'm
>not sure which one is "better" in that sense. If we are importing an
>"enhanced" utility maybe better to import the one with the highest
>number of knobs and twiddles to satisfy cravings?
I agree.
I have been using dust, and I am quite satisfied with it.
However, if you come across something better and want it in the ports
tree,please let me know. I will try my best to write a port for it
and maintain it.
>Ports wise, there are a lot of hidden files in the archive that need to
>be removed, probably from compressing the files in macos. I would
>suggest compressing through the command line using tar instead of the GUI.
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>extra file: pkg/._DESCR
>extra file: pkg/._MESSAGE
>extra file: pkg/._PLIST
>...
>...
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>The Makefile and DESCR have a couple extra new lines at the end of the
>port, it seems like your editor added them spuriously. Please clean
>those up.
I have attached a fixed version.
Please test it if you can,and let me know if any issues arise.
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Best,
Neel Chakraborty
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