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Configure build options for FreeBSD ports
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released Nov 8th 2017
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ptomulik/bsdportconfig — version 0.2.4 Nov 8th 2017

bsdportconfig

Build Status

Configure build options for FreeBSD ports.

Warning

Bsdportconfig was not developed for last few years and may not work with recent FreeBSD releases. I'm not going to develop it further, as there is ptomulik/portsng, which handles build options, ports maintenance (install/uninstall/update) and is a mature and tested module.

Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Module Description
  3. Setup
  4. Usage
  5. Limitations
  6. Development

Overview

This module implements a bsdportconfig resource which maintains build options for packages installed with BSD ports.

Module Description

The bsdportconfig module helps to configure BSD ports.

Installation and de-installation of FreeBSD ports is handled quite well by package resource from puppet's core. However, it has no way to set configuration options for ports (no make config stage), and always installs packages with their default options (or with manually pre-set options).

This module tries to fill this gap. It helps to ensure, that certain configuration options are set (or unset) for certain ports. You may chain the bsdportconfig resource with package to achieve automatic configuration of ports before they get installed.

The module supports only the on/off options.

Setup

What Bsdportconfig affects

This module affects:

  • options for given ports, it's done by modifying options files $PORT_DBDIR/*/options.local, where $PORT_DBDIR='/var/db/ports' by default,
  • make command is used to search ports and retrieve port characteristics, these invocations of make are read-only and should not affect your system by their own,

Setup Requirements

You may need to enable pluginsync in your puppet.conf.

Beginning with Bsdportconfig

Note: the resource writes to file only the options listed in options parameter. Other options do are not written to options files.

Example: ensure that www/apache22 is configured with SUEXEC and CGID modules:

bsdportconfig { 'www/apache22': options => { 'SUEXEC'=>on, 'CGID'=>on } }

Example: ensure that www/apache22 is configured without CGID module:

bsdportconfig { 'www/apache22': options => { 'CGID'=>off } }

Example: install www/apache22 package with SUEXEC module enabled:

bsdportconfig { 'www/apache22': options => { 'SUEXEC'=>on } }
package { 'www/apache22': require => Bsdportconfig['www/apache22'] }

Example: since version 0.1.6 you may use portnames to identify ports:

bsdportconfig { 'apache22': options => {'SUEXEC'=>on} }

Example: since version 0.2.0 pkgnames are also supported:

bsdportconfig { 'apache22-2.2.25': options => {'SUEXEC'=>on} }

Usage

Resource type: bsdportconfig

Set build options for BSD ports.

TERMINOLOGY

We use the following terminology when referring ports/packages:

  • a string in form 'apache22' or 'ruby' is referred to as portname
  • a string in form 'apache22-2.2.25' or 'ruby-1.8.7.371,1' is referred to as a pkgname
  • a string in form 'www/apache22' or 'lang/ruby18' is referred to as a port origin

See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html

Port origins are used as primary identifiers for bsdportconfig instances. It's recommended to use origins or pkgnames to identify ports.

AMBIGUITY OF PORTNAMES

Accepting portnames (e.g. apache22) as the name parameter was introduced for convenience in 0.2.0. However, portnames in this form are ambiguous, meaning that port search may find multiple ports matching the given portname. For example 'ruby' package has three ports at the time of this writing (2013-08-30): ruby-1.8.7.371,1, ruby-1.9.3.448,1, and ruby-2.0.0.195_1,1 with origins lang/ruby18, lang/ruby19 and lang/ruby20 respectively. If you pass a portname which matches multiple ports, transaction will fail with a message such as:

Error: Could not prefetch bsdportconfig provider 'ports': found 3 ports with name 'ruby': 'lang/ruby18', 'lang/ruby19', 'lang/ruby20'

Parameters within bsdportconfig:

name (required)

Reference to a port. A portname, pkgname name or origin may be passed as the name parameter (see TERMINOLOGY in resource description). If the name has form 'category/subdir' it is treated as an origin. Otherwise, the provider tries to find matching port by pkgname and if it fails, by portname. Note, that portnames are ambiguous, see AMBIGUITY OF PORTNAMES in the resource description.

options (optional)

Options for the package. This is a hash with keys being option names and values being 'on'/'off' strings.

Limitations

These are limitation I see at the moment:

  • tested manually on FreeBSD only - any feedback welcome from other OSes,
  • unit tests for provider are still missing,
  • only on/off options are currently supported, more knowledge about BSD ports is necessary (are there other option types?)
  • only options from option files (/var/db/ports/*/options{,.local}) are taken into account when retrieving current resource state,
  • we no longer use public make showconfig interface to read option values (it was too slow); the options are retrieved from options files only; this may have some limitations now, and may cause some bugs in future - the algorithm used to read files resembles what was seen in ports' Makefiles, but it was also seen, that the algorithm used by ports is going to be changed (so we may desync at some point)

Development

Project is held on GitHub:

https://github.com/ptomulik/puppet-bsdportconfig

Feel free to submit issue reports to issue tracker or create pull requests.