zi0r suggested I use hooks to accomplish my patches-outside-distfiles question. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 poudriere 3.3.2 I started reading the documentation and played with the supplied sample files in /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/hooks. For background, see FreeBSD custom port patches when using poudriere. Eventually I came up with this solution: mkdir during the start phase mount during the mount phase I put stuff into a gist first, then created this post. The hook This is […]
On supernews a drive acted up over night. The main purpose of this post is for me to record the information. You might not find much useful here. The host is running FreeBSD 12 and is a FreshPorts development box. I saw this error in the logs: smart emailed me because I set that up some time ago. The email looked like this: This message was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
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I was asked why I was exasperated with iocage: This is the list of issues where I found my name. A given issue may be listed multiple times. Oct 2017 – iocage upgrade is looping: https://github.com/iocage/iocage/issues/399 Jun 2018 – cannot run ‘iocage start’ from my home dir: https://github.com/iocage/iocage/issues/567 Aug 2018 – entries in fstab disappear: https://github.com/iocage/iocage/issues/595 Dec 2018 – Cannot install 12.0 in a jail: https://github.com/iocage/iocage/issues/715 Jan 2019 – iocages puts exec files
I went and did a thing. I ported OwnTrack Recorder to FreeBSD. In this post: FreeBSD 12 owntracks/recoder 0.8.4 I refer to owntracks/recorder as ot-recorder. The FreeBSD service is known as otrecorder On FreeBSD, ot-recorder runs as the ot-recorder user, created by the package. I did not want it running as root. ot-recorder installs mosquitto by default, because it needs it’s libraries. That is also the reason why it installs curl. I chose
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