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   Rob Pike (robpike@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 19:34:54 JST Rob Pike

   My day of woe continues.

   I am trying to install graphviz on my mac, for probably the fifth time in history. I caved and tried to install MacPorts to enable this, as recommended at graphviz.org, but the installer for MacPorts itself is just hanging at the "Running package scripts" stage, for like 30 minutes, showing it to be perhaps as troublesome as homebrew, which corrupted my disk some years ago.

   Is MacPorts doing some protracted thing, or is it just broken? Thanks.

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     Damien Miller (djm@cybervillains.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 19:34:49 JST Damien Miller

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     @robpike the year is 34157 (reformed epoch calendar). The final living human reaches out, with their last remaining energy, to add another debugging printf

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     Rob Pike (robpike@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 19:34:50 JST Rob Pike

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     Well, that turned out to be not worthwhile after all. I needed graphviz to get dot to make a blocking profile graph, from which I learned nothing at all. So it was back to logging after all. My old tools are still sharp after all.

     Nonetheless, I do appreciate all the help people offered.

     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: repeated this.
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     Rob Pike (robpike@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 19:34:51 JST Rob Pike

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     OMG it finished after nearly an hour. Really would have been friendly to have a "this will take quite a while" message.

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     Rob Pike (robpike@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 19:34:52 JST Rob Pike

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     Well, if it is, it's not getting any data. Nothing on that pipe for many minutes now.

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     Rob Pike (robpike@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 19:34:53 JST Rob Pike

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     Wow

     /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after --include=/ports.tar --include=/ports.tar.rmd160 --exclude=* rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs

     Is it syncing the universe from across the world?