Re: poudriere options

From: M. Mader <mma_at_darktemple.ch>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 17:28:54 UTC
Am 6. Dezember 2021 17:56:10 MEZ schrieb Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>:
>
>
>On Mon, Dec 6, 2021, at 10:38 AM, M. Mader wrote:
>> Am 6. Dezember 2021 16:05:17 MEZ schrieb Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr>:
>>>Le 06/12/2021 à 09:50:36-0500, Dan Langille a écrit
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > I run poudriere with some jail, with differents options.
>>>> >
>>>> > I would like to know the best way to save that options, currently I use
>>>> > pourdriere options to set those options but that's are not very convenient
>>>> > to backup in puppet/ansible-kind tools.
>>>> >
>>>> > Is they are any way to set poudriere jail options in other way ?
>>>>
>>>> Can you give us an example of the options you want to save please?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Two examples,
>>>
>>>  1/ I run icinga2 for monitoring my services and use
>>>
>>>      net-mgmt/monitoring-plugins
>>>
>>>  for that. I need to «custom» that ports options because by default I'm
>>>  missing LDAP, MYSQL, PGSQL
>>>
>>>  Well this one are easy because I just need to add those tree options.
>>>
>>>  2/ I run also www/rt5, with that I need the option
>>>
>>>    www/rt5 -> I need few options but most important I use AP_MODPERL
>>>    instead of the default.
>>>
>>>    thats mean I also need (at least)
>>>
>>>    OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=MODPERL
>>>
>>>    for www/p5-HTML-Mason
>>>
>>>So it's not a big deal to do that for one jail, but with time I'm going to
>>>forget I need those options.
>>>
>>>Currently what I do is when I create a new jail (for a new version of
>>>FreeBSD), I redo the pourdiere options, and check if it's ok with
>>>
>>>  diff -r old-jail-options-dir new-jail-options-dir
>>>
>>>something not only boring but prone to error.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>
>>>--
>>>Albert SHIH
>>>Observatoire de Paris
>>>France
>>>Heure local/Local time:
>>>lun. 06 déc. 2021 15:56:40 CET
>>>
>>
>> You can set these options on a per package. And in the case of 
>> poudriere even per jail.
>> Meaning that you only have to copy the separate files containing those 
>> options around. 
>> I've never actually set up puppet, but I imagine that would be possible 
>> with puppet.
>>
>> Sadly I'm not on my computer, so I can't tell you reliably where to put 
>> those files.
>>
>> But either:
>> man poudriere
>> Or
>> man poudriere-options
>> should answer that.
>>
>> It's the equivalent of setting options for pkg somewhere in /var/db/pkg/
>>
>> I'm terribly sorry for the vague answer. But I found out how to do it 
>> just by reading poudriere's manpages, so everyone else should be able 
>> to do so, since I'm usually not the sharpest tool in the shed ;)
>
>You can put them all in /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/make.conf
>
>I suspect...
>

>You can put them all in /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/make.conf

Sure. But to maintain options per package, I'd go with separate per package option files.