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Mostly package list updates, but some refactoring of the scripts that process package list control files.

And some minor rework for builds on MacOS and the UTM VMs running on MacOS.

- Debian 14
- Ubuntu 22.04
- OpenIndiana 2026
  + needed Python build tweak here to skip a gcc option that is
    required elsewhere
- fix botch when $version is empty, like it is here
- add -s option to list-packages to strip cpan() and pip3() from the
  list of missing packages
build/mac/GNUmakefile
    - if gawk is installed via brew, the awk recipe here dies a tragic
      death so force the use of the awk from a base MacOS install

build/mac/cmdline-install
    - fix typo (-d -> -f) in guard for mounted package file

qa/admin/check-other
qa/admin/list-packages
qa/admin/mac-path-to-pkg
qa/admin/old-list-packages
qa/admin/packages.rc
    - package list script updates, especially for brew-installed
      packages

qa/admin/other-packages
    - package list updates

qa/README.vm
    - add notes for MacOS

src/include/builddefs.in
    --no-undefined does not work with ld(1) here

src/python/GNUmakefile
    --allow-shlib-undefined does not work with ld(1) here

qa/admin/pcp-daily
    add mac and UTH VMs on mac
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for macOS 26 and Debian 13 package requirements.
    • Added package discovery and installation tracking for Homebrew.
    • Added tools for identifying unavailable packages and simplifying package listings.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved macOS package installation detection.
    • Corrected platform-specific build and linker settings.
    • Improved package dependency handling across supported distributions.
  • Documentation

    • Added macOS packaging, upgrade, and Homebrew guidance.

Walkthrough

The change updates cross-platform build rules, package-manager detection, QA package checkers, macOS provenance handling, platform manifests, package lists, and daily QA host management.

Changes

Cross-platform build and QA package support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Platform build and packaging adjustments
build/mac/GNUmakefile, build/mac/cmdline-install, build/rpm/pcp.spec.in, src/include/builddefs.in, src/python/GNUmakefile
Build rules select compatible awk and linker behavior. The macOS installer checks for a package file. The RPM condition adds sqlite-devel for non-RHEL distributions.
Package manager detection and discovery
qa/admin/packages.rc, qa/admin/old-list-packages
Package parsing adds line diagnostics and accepts additional version cases. Package-manager detection supports FreeBSD, OpenIndiana, and Homebrew. OpenIndiana and Darwin package discovery is added.
QA package checker workflows
qa/admin/check-other, qa/admin/list-packages, qa/admin/mac-path-to-pkg
QA checkers add unavailable-package reporting, host-specific skips, wrapper handling, Homebrew metadata, and macOS installation provenance checks.
Platform manifests and package metadata
qa/admin/other-packages/*, qa/admin/package-lists/*
Package annotations, skip rules, unavailable-package data, and platform package lists are updated for current Darwin, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, OpenIndiana, Ubuntu, CentOS, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD environments.
QA operations and documentation
qa/README.vm, qa/admin/pcp-daily
macOS packaging guidance is documented. Daily QA adds macOS hosts and updates remote temporary-directory and shutdown handling.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant list-packages
  participant packages.rc
  participant mac-path-to-pkg
  list-packages->>packages.rc: detect package type
  packages.rc->>list-packages: return brew or platform package type
  list-packages->>mac-path-to-pkg: resolve Homebrew installation provenance
  mac-path-to-pkg->>list-packages: return package source or unknown result
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Priority: ⬇️ Low

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1a497

Updating a Darwin package list can retain a pattern instead of the selected Homebrew formula, making later package checks unreliable. The fix is localized, but should be made before relying on generated lists.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title accurately summarizes the pull request as a second round of QA Farm rebuild fixups. It is concise and related to the primary changes.
Description check ✅ Passed The description accurately covers the package list updates, script refactoring, and macOS build changes in the changeset.
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Inline comments:
In `@qa/admin/check-other`:
- Line 201: Update the sorting pipeline in _find to use IPS-aware version
ordering instead of reverse lexical sorting, ensuring versions such as 4.10 rank
newer than 4.9 before sed selects the first owner record.

In `@qa/admin/list-packages`:
- Line 146: Update the manifest-processing loop’s exclusion matching to evaluate
the current package value stored in $pkgs rather than the unset $line variable.
Change the case expression while preserving the existing exclusion and
record-processing branches.

In `@qa/admin/mac-path-to-pkg`:
- Around line 67-70: Update the fallback loop’s case and file probe to use the
resolved command path in $file rather than the original argument $1, so bare
command names and subsequent arguments are checked correctly.

In `@qa/admin/packages.rc`:
- Line 77: Update the filtering and read loop around lineno so it tracks each
physical source line before blank/comment lines are removed. Preserve that
captured line number through processing and use it for every verbose diagnostic,
rather than incrementing lineno only for retained records.

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  • build/mac/GNUmakefile
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  • qa/admin/list-packages
  • qa/admin/mac-path-to-pkg
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  • qa/admin/other-packages/skip
  • qa/admin/other-packages/skip.vm31
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  • qa/admin/package-lists/Ubuntu+22.04+x86_64
  • qa/admin/package-lists/Ubuntu+24.04+x86_64
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Comment thread qa/admin/check-other
if pkg search -l "$1" >$tmp/tmp
then
sed -e 1d <$tmp/tmp \
| LC_COLLATE=POSIX sort -r \

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Select the owning package by IPS version.

When pkg search -l returns multiple owners, reverse lexical sorting places 4.9 before 4.10. The following sed command selects that first record, so _find can report an older package. Sort the records with IPS-aware version ordering before selecting the owner.

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In `@qa/admin/check-other` at line 201, Update the sorting pipeline in _find to
use IPS-aware version ordering instead of reverse lexical sorting, ensuring
versions such as 4.10 rank newer than 4.9 before sed selects the first owner
record.

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Comment thread qa/admin/packages.rc
{
[ -z "$tmp" ] && tmp=${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/$$
rm -f $tmp.matches $tmp.prefix-matches
lineno=1

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Track physical source lines before filtering.

sed removes blank and comment lines before while read, but lineno increments only for retained records. In verbose mode, diagnostics therefore report filtered-record positions instead of physical line numbers. Preserve the source line number while filtering and use it in each diagnostic.

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In `@qa/admin/packages.rc` at line 77, Update the filtering and read loop around
lineno so it tracks each physical source line before blank/comment lines are
removed. Preserve that captured line number through processing and use it for
every verbose diagnostic, rather than incrementing lineno only for retained
records.

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qa/admin/list-packages (1)

336-338: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Write the resolved Homebrew package name.

When $pkg is a pattern with one available match, this branch writes $pkg brew to $tmp.add. Update mode copies that entry into the package-list file, whose entries use concrete name brew values. A later package-list check can therefore operate on the unresolved pattern instead of the selected package.

-					    echo "$pkg brew" >>$tmp.add
+					    echo "$avail brew" >>$tmp.add
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In `@qa/admin/list-packages` around lines 336 - 338, Update the brew branch in the
package-resolution flow to write the resolved Homebrew package name rather than
the original pattern in $pkg. Ensure the entry appended to $tmp.add uses the
selected concrete name followed by the existing brew type marker, preserving the
package-list format expected by later checks.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@qa/admin/list-packages`:
- Around line 336-338: Update the brew branch in the package-resolution flow to
write the resolved Homebrew package name rather than the original pattern in
$pkg. Ensure the entry appended to $tmp.add uses the selected concrete name
followed by the existing brew type marker, preserving the package-list format
expected by later checks.

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kmcdonell merged commit aeb4255 into performancecopilot:main Sep 13, 2026
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