Graham Perrin @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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Shots 1 and 2: I forced a series of errors by running pkbasify (in Konsole, alongside various other applications) with insufficient free memory and insufficient swap space.

Shots 3 and 4: the second run completed without error.

Cool.

<github.com/ifreund/pkgbasify?t>

– convert a FreeBSD system to use pkgbase.

Thanks to Isaac Freund @ifreundIsaac Freund and the FreeBSD Foundation @FreeBSDFoundation

Screenshot: two Konsole windows. In the upper window, whilst running pkgbasify.lua, a child process terminated abnormally (killed), after which I keyed Control-T. In the lower window, htop showing 902 of 966 M memory used, 1.9 of 2.0 G swap used.Screenshot: in a Konsole window, a series of errors. In the background: Firefox browsing GitHub, the BBC, and Popular Science.Screenshot: the beginning of the subsequent run of pkgbasify.lua …Screenshot: the successful conclusion.
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