Friday, May 17, 2024

Re: pax and ext2fs

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 12:08 AM Philip Guenther <guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 1:14 AM Philip Guenther <guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
...
>> I think you've managed to hit a spot where the POSIX standard doesn't provide a way for a program to find the information it needs to do its job correctly. I've filed a ticket there
>> https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1831
>>
>> We'll see if my understanding of pathconf() is incorrect or if someone has a great idea for how to get around this...
>
> So yeah, what's needed is pathconfat(2)** but whether this winding loose end ("That poor yak.") merits that much code and surface is yet to be examined deeply.

The fix for this has now been committed, so it'll be in 7.6 and a near
future snapshot.


Philip Guenther

Re: Update m1n1 and apple-boot firmware

On May 17, 2024 9:49:33 PM GMT+02:00, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>Better hold off for now, seems there's a display init problem on M1 (at least desktop)
>

AFAIU this issue is caused by updating the stage 1, so it only happens when you rerun the original installer. Updating the port should not be a problem since that is used to update stage 2 only.

ok tobhe@