• Resizing small EFI partition

  Apr 17, 2023 • Share

  It started with the firmware failing to update because the EFI partition was low on free space. (Dell, why do you need 70 MB on the EFI while also making it as small as 150 MB at the same time?) Well, resizing the partition is the obvious solution except it ended in a wonderful error message:

  GNU parted cannot resize this partition to this size. We're working on it!
  

  (spoiler: they're not)

  In my case the GPT partition was resized, just the filesystem was not grown, I only needed to reformat it.

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  Category: Misc • Tags: efi, fat32, linux, parted, til, windows

• March Packages on Packagist

  Mar 31, 2023 • Share

  I'm continuing to publish useless nih junk on the Packagist:

  • arokettu/arithmetic-parser: A very configurable arithmetic parser and calculator. You can define your own set of functions and operators. You can even disable multiplication if you want to!

  • arokettu/clock: A set of PSR-20 clock implementations. Everyone has these implemented so why not me? :D

  • arokettu/system-clock: All these PSR-20 clock packages usually contain a ton of clocks for testing purposes but most of the production code needs only new DateTimeImmutable('now') so I extracted SystemClock to a separate package that has only SystemClock.php and composer.json for the smallest possible package (if you don't count uglifying it js-like)

  • arokettu/kilo-mega: This one was actually released on February but I've forgot to write about it. It's a simple formatter for metric prefixes.

    <?php
    echo format_metric(1000, suffix: 'W'); // 1.0 kW
    echo format_bytes(1234); // 1.2 KiB
    

  Also a new significant release:

  • arokettu/torrent-file: Torrent file class got file listing classes for v1 and v2 metadata in 5.0 release.

  Category: PHP • Tags: bittorrent, clock, libraries, math, packagist, psr

• GPL Incompatibility

  Feb 22, 2023 • Share

  "GPL incompatibility" of a FOSS license is not a problem of the incompatible license, it's the problem of the GPL. Most permissive licenses and file-based copyleft licenses can be used together in a project without any conflict and that's great. It's GPL that doesn't like any neighbors.

  Category: Misc • Tags: copyleft, gnu gpl, opensource

• Moving packages to Arokettu

  Jan 15, 2023 • Share

  Just finished moving my old composer packages from sandfoxme/* to arokettu/*.

  Full list:

  • composer-viz (old, new): the only one I moved a year ago

  • bencode (old, new)

  • monsterid (old, new)

  • phpstorm-metadata-export (old, new)

  • private-access (old, new)

  • torrent-file (old, new)

  I tried to make the migration process as smooth as possible. I'm sorry for the inconvenience it might have caused.

  Category: PHP • Tags: libraries, packagist

• Installing Composer in Docker the 2020-s Way

  Jan 11, 2023 • Share

  While the original way is still valid, in Docker it's now easier to copy the Composer executable from its Docker image.

  COPY --from=composer:latest /usr/bin/composer /usr/local/bin/composer
  

  or for PHP < 7.2.5

  COPY --from=composer:2.2 /usr/bin/composer /usr/local/bin/composer
  

  Please note that without the installer, dependencies won't be checked, so you also need to install git and/or zip, and preferably optional dependencies like mbstring too.

  Found accidentally on the Stack Overflow. There is also another interesting and underliked method for the case when you don't want to keep the composer executable and cache files in your image.

  Category: PHP • Tags: composer, docker

• LGPL is a bad practice

  Jan 2, 2023 • Share

  TL;DR: Don't use LGPL, avoid library-based copyleft in general.

  The closest acceptable no-brainer replacement should be GNU GPL with Classpath Exception, but the concept of library-based copyleft itself is flawed. It's better to consider MPL (less copyleft) or full GPL (more copyleft).

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  Category: Misc • Tags: copyleft, lgpl, licensing, opinion

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