Figure 1: Shemp.

Who looks larger in person, these photos make him look a bit kittenish but he is actually a fine young man of about three years!

ugh how do I make homebrew ditch all the old Intel binaries carried across from my old machine and recompile everything for ARM

aha, think I found it: https://database.guide/fix-cannot-install-in-homebrew-on-arm-processor-in-intel-default-prefix-usr-local/

"just reinstall homebrew", awesome, thanks for providing an elegant path for a migration you can expect 100% of your Apple users to be taking, homebrew guys *sigh*

.... hasn't worked yet, libffi seems to be my new nemesis, replacing charlock_holmes

anyway time for a break, I need to shower and get ready for a previously scheduled appointment

Thinking of trying to stick my local dev instance into Docker. Have discovered that all guides for using Docker that existed back when the docs were on Github are completely gone from docs.joinmastodon.org. I shudder to imagine how many collective hours of dependency hell this choice has already created for new admins who just brought up 3.whatever, never mind how much dependency hell it will create in the future.

Okay, I am back from my errand (and from grabbing a turnover at the 130-year-old wikinotable bakery a few blocks form my place) and I am watching my first attempt to get Docker running on my local dev copy of dragon.style. If this works then perhaps I will finally be done with dependency hell forever.

Okay this feels like progress, I am watching three of the five processes that make up A Mastodon repeatedly restart themselves in the Docker app's window. I am pretty sure this is because the database is completely uninitialized. Now to find a copy of the Docker setup docs, since the Masto project, in their infinite wisdom, has completely removed any mention of Docker from the official docs site.

@arthurwyatt

VERY. He reminds you to do things like "pet cat" and "play with cat" and "get snack for cat", all of which are crucial to the cryptic and stressful task of "repeatedly typing cryptic shit into a command line and googling error messages".

@anthracite @arthurwyatt

I wonder if my present lack of cat is behind my becoming less willing to put up with cryptic computer bs.... 🤔

@anthracite

The update cat has advice it seems.

@anthracite

SHEMPO!!!

@anthracite Cat!
*meows at your cat*

@anthracite If you have a database dump from the existing system, you should be able to import them to the new one.

I'd need to see your docker-compose.yaml to see what's what in your setup.

@anthracite If you are trying to do this off of the main branch, and didn't check out the tagged version, it can have...issues...as well. It may be worth a *gasp* call/chat after I have dinner to go over it and see if I can help since I've been running docker since day 1.

@ksonney

WHAT IS VOICE OMFG

I've been running the one on the server in docker since forever, I'm just trying to cram the local copy on my Mac in there too now so I can leave Dependency Hell forever.

@anthracite I don't know if this is useful, but this script keeps me from having to build shit over and over again.

https://gist.github.com/ksonney/2ff09a5cc3f953c524ee3f97aa20677b

@anthracite Also of note, just in case https://gist.github.com/ksonney/22745d66bce389b38c2db1bd5d154781

@ksonney

Oh that is interesting, yes. I am still using the same docker-compose that ships from Masto, last updated 5y ago and calling for postgres 9.6/redis6.0...

@ksonney

(current status: containerizing my local dev copy of 3.4.6 in prep for upgrading to 4.0.2, probably glitch fork)

@ksonney

Can you share the database section of your .env.production? With secrets/passwords scrubbed, obviously.

@ksonney

hmm, never mind - I managed to finally guess at the right name for the database in .env.production and am now as far as "it runs but I can't connect" :)

WHICH IS PROGRESS ENOUGH TO KNOCK OFF AND PLAY VIDEO GAMES, thanks for trying to help!

@anthracite there are some instructions for using containerized Postgres to upgrade the db files from 9->14, but I do not have them handy.

@anthracite woohoo!

@ksonney

I think this may be useful for the future once I get my local copy containerized!

@anthracite any updates on this? ^^'

@saphire

Not yet, might poke at it some more soon.

@anthracite @saphire do you have the dragon style changes in a public repo? I wouldn't mind poking at it every once in a while to keep it up to date

@catgoat

yeah one of these days I should probably figure out how to cram my five-year-old local dev copy into a docker container, maybe today's that day, maybe it isn't

@anthracite i just started over from scratch with the source code I had because it was faster than fixing my local dev env 😬

@catgoat

yeah part of why I hate upgrading is that I always spend hours bashing my head against dependency hell just getting the local copy up on the new version, it's maddening. Works fine on the remote copy, which *is* in a Docker container...

@anthracite yeah, totally! i have the same problem. if you end up wanting to try it, lmk i can definitely help

@catgoat

It looks like the path on OSX involves downloading an app from docker.com and figuring out how to point that to the Dockerfile lurking in the Mastodon directory, guess I know what I'm doing when I get back from going out to kick the Louisiana DMV into finally giving me an ID with an F on it. I have sworn at Homebrew's insistence on trying to use some library compiled for Intel instead of recompiling it for Apple Silicon too many times today!

@anthracite I can write up a little, too! If you use vscode and grab that app from docker.com, there’s a .devcontainer folder in the mastodon repository that has everything you need for a VS Code Dev container: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/tree/main/.devcontainer