Operations grimoire/Packages repository

The packages repository provide packages for FreeBSD and RHEL.

It's accessible at https://packages.nasqueron.org/ and served from WindRiver.

FreeBSD packages

The /freebsd path is divided by ABI. For example, `FreeBSD:14:amd64` is used for FreeBSD 14 on amd64 architecture.

To add a package:

 - for a custom software at Nasqueron, commit a port to rPORTS following FreeBSD porters handbook - automation is fully there
 - for a special configuration of an upstream package, build it on WindRiver, and copy it to /var/repo - no automation currently, but we could automate based on rOPS: roles/devserver/userland-software/ports.sls logic.

Automated builds

Poudriere and portshaker are used to build automatically the ports per D3520.

To update the packages repository, just run rebuild-nasqueron-packages as root. It takes care to update FreeBSD and Nasqueron Git repositories, merge them and trigger a ports build. That poudriere build will take care of repository metadata too.

https://packages.nasqueron.org/freebsd/experimental/ serves automated builds content.

RHEL packages

Currently unavailable. Dwellers is a good candidate to prepare packaging, as the only RHEL-family development server we have.

For RHEL 8/9, we probably only need "dive" (3rdparty) and "docker-processes" (Nasqueron).

Build a package

Resources:

• https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/rpm/max-rpm/
• https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Packaging_Tutorial/

How to recreate the repository

As of October 2024, the easiest would be to :

• create a datacube "packages/redhat" in addition to "packages/freebsd" at rOPS: pillar/devserver/datacubes.sls, deploy
• copy packages to /datacube/packages/redhat directory
• configure nginx to serve /redhat as alias /datacube/packages/redhat; at rOPS: roles/webserver-alkane/nginx/files/vhosts/nasqueron.org/packages.conf

Automation

The copr project - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/ - has resources to automate the process. That could be investigated if we've a lot of packages to build (we don't currently).