Stuff about FreshPorts.
I have a few development jails dedicated to my work on FreshPorts. It’s been a hobby of mine since the late 1990s. The code I create gets packaged, ready to deploy onto the test, stage, and production hosts. What I absolutely do not want to happen, and it’s happened recently, is for those packages to …
ZFS has a the ability to share itself within a jail. That gives the jail some autonomy, and I like that. I’ve written briefly about that, specifically for iocage. More recently, I started using a zfs snapshot for caching clearing. The purpose of this post is to document the existing configuration of the production FreshPorts …
Changing from one dataset to another within a FreeBSD [iocage] jail Read More »
I noticed a problem with a newly-created freshports daemon script: starting it would sometime freeze the terminal session. The rc.d script The rc.d script was fairly straight forward: Nothing odd there, right? This first happened a week or so ago. I moved on it and decided to look into later. But wait, there’s more This …
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FreshPorts runs on a FreeBSD server which hosts multiple jails. Two of these jails run PostgreSQL server. When upgrading from one version of PostgreSQL to another, we run pg_dump in the new jail, and load the backup into that database server. I’m writing this blog post to keep track of this procedure so I do …
Migrating FreshPorts from one db server to another Read More »
This post is all about creating technical debt. If you accept that, go for it. I’m avoiding porting my FreshPorts scripts into SITEPERL. Why? I’ll migrate them to SITEPERL after BSDCan & PGCon. Right now, I need to get the servers upgraded from Perl 5.24 to Perl 5.26, because 5.24 is deprecated. FreshPorts uses Perl …
Today I moved the FreshPorts website from one server to another. My goal is for nobody to notice. In preparation for this move, I have: DNS TTL reduced to 60s Posted to Twitter Updated the status page Put the website put in offline mode: Sorry, the website is offline from 2017-11-05 17:01, for approximately 3 …
FreeBSD 10.3 & PostgreSQL 9.4 on the old server, and FreeBSD 11.1 & PostgreSQL 9.6 on the new server. As part of the move from the old FreshPorts server (photos) to the new FreshPorts server, I’ll need to dump the database and copy it over. What? No zfs send? There is no ZFS on the …
Dumping PostgreSQL 9.4 to upgrade to PostgreSQL 9.6 Read More »
In my work on FreshPorts, I’ve learned more than the average non-committer about the FreeBSD ports tree and its oddities. Just about everything learns about a port it gets from ‘make -V’. Even this method can be fraught with difficulty. In an attempt to get the fairest information possible, FreshPorts uses a chroot solution, first …
I use FreeBSD. I’ve used it since 1998. For me, it does good stuff, reliably, and predictably. The community is very supportive and helpful. That goes a long way when choosing your open source operating system. Included within FreeBSD, since FreeBSD 4.0 in March 2000, is a great tool for separating out services and to …
The traditional thoughts on ZFS are to have arrays which are a power-of-2 when it comes to number of disks. That means 2, 4, 8, etc. But for raidz1, that would be 3, 5, 9. For my choice of raidz2, it would be 4, 6, and 10. In the system I’m building up now, I …