It has been 15 months since the last blog post about clearing out distfiles. It was time again today. This is still not scripted, however, that day may come. The steps were: [7:08 pro05 dvl ~] % ssh aws-1-ingress01 [11:09 aws-1-ingress01 dvl ~] % sudo service freshports stop Stopping freshports. Waiting for PIDS: 3073. [11:09 […]
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Yesterday, a Facebook memory reminded me of an old issue with FreshPorts: serial values which are about to overflow. This is where you may be thinking? serial? In this day? You might also think, why serial? Why not UUID. Keep thinking about that. Some of the tables we’re talking about were designed 20+ years ago.
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Just so you know, there is no conclusion to this story. The cause is still not known. However, I have some ideas to track it down and a follow-up blog post is underway. In short: All src commits gave errors – this was reproducible, and has been fixed When an error occurs, it’s not the
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This post is a proof-of-concept for creating a new jail instead of upgrading one in-place. I think the process is easier, given there are no packages installed in the jail. Re https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/issues/622 Each ingress node in a FreshPorts instance contains a FreeBSD jail. It has some shell scripts, but no installed packages. I think it
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It’s time to clear old distfiles. Based on Moving distfiles to a new filesystem & deleting unused distfiles, I did the following on the aws-1-ingress01 jail. In short: fetch index list DISTFILES used by index remove DISTFILES not used by index The commands: root@freshports:/usr/ports # make fetchindex /usr/bin/env fetch -am -o /usr/ports/INDEX-14.xz https://download.FreeBSD.org/ports/index/INDEX-14.xz /usr/ports/INDEX-14.xz 1864
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This morning I was created with 6 emails, all announcing FAILED: MASTER_PORT, one for each FreshPorts node. Each was sent at 5AM (1000 UTC). Something happened which upset every one of them. I have no idea why. However, I’m writing this down for future reference. This announcement came from one of the many system checks
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FreshPorts pulls down a lot of distfiles (the file distributed by the software author which contains the software). Much more than your average user. Every distfile for every commit is fetched. Let’s look at my private FreshPorts development instance: [13:18 dvl-ingress01 dvl /jails/freshports/usr/ports] % du -ch -d 0 distfiles 125G distfiles 125G total That’s 125GB.
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The original problem was explained and fixed however it seems to have resurfaced. Either that, or it was not fixed at all. In short: FreshPorts sees the first commit for a port on a branch the commit is deleting that port FreshPorts detects that the port has been deleted It forgets, somehow, that the port
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On November 19 2024, these errors appeared on every FreshPorts node: That’s my clue to go look closer as to why the processing failed. This processing is related to the security/vuxml port which documents known vulnerabilities within the FreeBSD ports tree and operating system. This tool helps system administrators identify and patch known problems. The
vuxml processing broken – files have grown too much Read More »
This is mostly for my own future reference. I was looking at /categories.php and didn’t see the new filesystems category. I also note it does not sort by what it says it will sort. I eventually found it was loading data from this table: That’s all from 2017… 7 years ago. Grepping for the table
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