July 2023 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Using FreeBSD’s daemon(8)? Consider -r

FreshPorts make use of a simple python daemon (fp_listen). It has been in use since at least 2006. It was (I think) vermaden who mentioned it (I can’t find the reference) and it triggered an idea. The role of fp_listen is to listen for backend notifications and respond accordingly. One of its primary goals is to clear the front end cache as required. Part of that strategy involves a persistent connection to the […]

Jul 11 2023

pkg: No SRV record found for the repo ‘local’

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, Open Source, pkg / By Dan Langille / July 11, 2023

Today I removed and added the same package. The add failed. Background: I install from my own custom package repo server I do not install from the FreeBSD package servers My packages are built via poudriere The same basic repo configuration file has been in use for years This is what I just encountered: [tallboy dan ~] % sudo pkg install postfix Updating local repository catalogue… Fetching meta.conf: 100% 163 B 0.2kB/s 00:01

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