Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

i like this house.
2nd easiest way to pop a breaker: turn my fan on.
easiest way to pop a breaker: turn my fan off.
the fan i use doesn't matter.

@evie now ain't that some nostalgia! that's a fun game, and i hope they succeed in bringing it back to life.

Thomas Jefferson Starship Troopers

after about two months hiding under a rock, i'm ready to poke my head out again. hi, folks.

♪ "Die, Corona!" [YouTube, 2:35]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoKK8L26m8A

#covid19 does NOT give you the zombie shits from hell, people! why did you buy out the industrialized world's entire supply of toilet paper as if it was a black-friday special!?

idk if knowing the answer makes me feel better or worse. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/heres-why-people-are-panic-buying-and-stockpiling-toilet-paper.html

i'm unboxing a new pc for a customer, and of course i'm reading the pitiful excuse for a manual that comes with it. most of them these days are leaflets that don't even tell you how to turn the thing off.

but this one's actually a 12-page pamphlet, and it actually gives instructions on how to turn it off! amazing!

but you have to know what the start button is. no screenies to help you along. just ignoring that the start button hasn't said "start" since 2007.

also, it's early and i haven't had my coffee yet. passwords are hard without coffee.

and yayness!

the #freebsd folks got on it, & both firefox and thunderbird should be back in the repo soon. thanks, everyone! https://twitter.com/woodsb02/status/1237314591262003201

i was pointed to a mailing list message which explains in detail what broke and how it was fixed: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2020-March/117932.html

now i just wait for a `pkg update && pkg search firefox` to produce the expected result, then i can unlock and upgrade.

i got a reply from blaagh on birdsite https://twitter.com/blaagh/status/1237056705931993088 explaining what happened:

https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/builds/default:quarterly:121amd64:527970:beefy2

[121amd64-quarterly-job-01] Extracting nspr-4.24: .......... done
===> firefox-74.0_1,1 depends on package: nspr>=4.25 - not found

Quarterly package build failed due to an out of date dependency :/

oops, upgrading dav1d to 0.6.0 broke firefox because libxul.so depends on libdav1d.so.3 & the upgrade removed it, installing libdav1d.so.4 instead. welp, good thing i didn't clear my pkg cache. `pkg install /var/cache/pkg/dav1d-0.5.2_1.txz` :/

thank you for the package locking feature, #freebsd. i mean that sincerely. with firefox locked against removal, i can at least keep working until this is sorted.

did someone at #freebsd mess up? why is this the only package search result for firefox now?