                      Package Building Procedures

  The FreeBSD Ports Management Team

   Copyright (c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
   2011, 2012 The FreeBSD Ports Management Team

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   1.89 2012/01/07 16:19:04 linimon Exp $

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1 Introduction

   In order to provide pre-compiled binaries of third-party
   applications for FreeBSD, the Ports Collection is regularly built
   on one of the "Package Building Clusters." Currently, the main
   cluster in use is at http://pointyhat.FreeBSD.org.

   This article documents the internal workings of the cluster.

     Note: Many of the details in this article will be of interest
     only to those on the Ports Management team.

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  1.1 The codebase

   Most of the package building magic occurs under the /var/portbuild
   directory. Unless otherwise specified, all paths will be relative
   to this location. ${arch} will be used to specify one of the
   package architectures (amd64, i386(TM), ia64, powerpc, and
   SPARC64(R)), and ${branch} will be used to specify the build
   branch (7, 7-exp, 8, 8-exp, 9, 9-exp, 10, 10-exp).

     Note: Packages are no longer built for Releases 4, 5, or 6, nor
     for the alpha architecture.

   The scripts that control all of this live in
   /var/portbuild/scripts/. These are the checked-out copies from the
   Subversion repository base/projects/portbuild/scripts/ .

   Typically, incremental builds are done that use previous packages
   as dependencies; this takes less time, and puts less load on the
   mirrors. Full builds are usually only done:

     * right after release time, for the -STABLE branches

     * periodically to test changes to -CURRENT

     * for experimental builds

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  1.2 Notes on the codebase

   Until mid-2010, the scripts were completely specific to pointyhat
   as the head (dispatch) node. During the summer of 2010, a
   significant rewrite was done in order to allow for other hosts to
   be head nodes. Among the changes were:

     * removal of the hard-coding of the string pointyhat

     * factoring out all configuration constants (which were
       previously scattered throughout the code) into configuration
       files (see below)

     * appending the hostname to the directories specified by buildid
       (this will allow directories to be unambigious when copied
       between machines.)

     * making the scripts more robust in terms of setting up
       directories and symlinks

     * where necessary, changing certain script invocations to make
       all the above easier

   This document was originally written before these changes were
   made. Where things such as script invocations have changed, they
   are denoted as new codebase: as opposed to old codebase:.

     Note: As of December 2010, pointyhat is still running on the old
     codebase, until the new codebase is considered rock-solid.

     Note: Also during this process, the codebase was migrated to the
     Subversion repository. For reference, the previous version may
     still be found in CVS.

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2 Build Client Management

   The i386 clients co-located with pointyhat netboot from it
   (connected nodes); all other clients (disconnected nodes) are
   either self-hosted or netboot from some other pxe host. In all
   cases they set themselves up at boot-time to prepare to build
   packages.

   The cluster master rsyncs the interesting data (ports and src
   trees, bindist tarballs, scripts, etc.) to disconnected nodes
   during the node-setup phase. Then, the disconnected portbuild
   directory is nullfs-mounted for chroot builds.

   The ports-${arch} user can ssh(1) to the client nodes to monitor
   them. Use sudo and check the portbuild.hostname.conf for the user
   and access details.

   The scripts/allgohans script can be used to run a command on all
   of the ${arch} clients.

   The scripts/checkmachines script is used to monitor the load on
   all the nodes of the build cluster, and schedule which nodes build
   which ports. This script is not very robust, and has a tendency to
   die. It is best to start up this script on the build master (e.g.
   pointyhat) after boot time using a while(1) loop.

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3 Chroot Build Environment Setup

   Package builds are performed in a chroot populated by the
   portbuild script using the
   ${arch}/${branch}/builds/${buildid}/bindist.tar file.

   The following command builds a world from the
   ${arch}/${branch}/builds/${buildid}/src/ tree and installs it into
   ${worlddir}. The tree will be updated first unless -nocvs is
   specified.

 /var/portbuild# scripts/makeworld ${arch} ${branch} ${buildid} [-nocvs]

   The bindist.tar tarball is created from the previously installed
   world by the mkbindist script. It should be run as root with the
   following command:

 /var/portbuild# scripts/mkbindist ${arch} ${branch} ${buildid}

   The per-machine tarballs are located in ${arch}/clients.

   The bindist.tar file is extracted onto each client at client boot
   time, and at the start of each pass of the dopackages script.

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4 Starting the Build

   Several separate builds for each architecture - branch combination
   are supported. All data private to a build (ports tree, src tree,
   packages, distfiles, log files, bindist, Makefile, etc) are
   located under ${arch}/${branch}/builds/${buildid}. The last
   created build can be alternatively referenced under buildid
   latest, the one before is called previous.

   New builds are cloned from the latest, which is fast since it uses
   ZFS.

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  4.1 dopackages scripts

   The scripts/dopackages scripts are used to perform the builds.

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    4.1.1 Old codebase

   For the old codebase: the most useful are:

     * dopackages.7 - Perform a 7.X build

     * dopackages.7-exp - Perform a 7.X build with experimental
       patches (7-exp branch)

     * dopackages.8 - Perform a 8.X build

     * dopackages.8-exp - Perform a 8.X build with experimental
       patches (8-exp branch)

     * dopackages.9 - Perform a 9.X build

     * dopackages.9-exp - Perform a 9.X build with experimental
       patches (9-exp branch)

     * dopackages.10 - Perform a 10.X build

     * dopackages.10-exp - Perform a 10.X build with experimental
       patches (10-exp branch)

   These are wrappers around dopackages, and are all symlinked to
   dopackages.wrapper. New branch wrapper scripts can be created by
   symlinking dopackages.${branch} to dopackages.wrapper. These
   scripts take a number of arguments. For example:

 dopackages.7 ${arch} ${buildid} [-options]

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    4.1.2 New codebase

   The symlinks go away, and you just use dopackages.wrapper
   directly. For example:

 dopackages.wrapper ${arch} ${branch} ${buildid} [-options]

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    4.1.3 Either codebase

   Most often, you will be using latest for the value of buildid.

   [-options] may be zero or more of the following:

     * -keep - Do not delete this build in the future, when it would
       be normally deleted as part of the latest - previous cycle.
       Don't forget to clean it up manually when you no longer need
       it.

     * -nofinish - Do not perform post-processing once the build is
       complete. Useful if you expect that the build will need to be
       restarted once it finishes. If you use this option, don't
       forget to cleanup the clients when you don't need the build
       anymore.

     * -finish - Perform post-processing only.

     * -nocleanup - By default, when the -finish stage of the build
       is complete, the build data will be deleted from the clients.
       This option will prevent that.

     * -restart - Restart an interrupted (or non-finished) build from
       the beginning. Ports that failed on the previous build will be
       rebuilt.

     * -continue - Restart an interrupted (or non-finished) build.
       Will not rebuild ports that failed on the previous build.

     * -incremental - Compare the interesting fields of the new INDEX
       with the previous one, remove packages and log files for the
       old ports that have changed, and rebuild the rest. This cuts
       down on build times substantially since unchanged ports do not
       get rebuilt every time.

     * -cdrom - This package build is intended to end up on a CD-ROM,
       so NO_CDROM packages and distfiles should be deleted in
       post-processing.

     * -nobuild - Perform all the preprocessing steps, but do not
       actually do the package build.

     * -noindex - Do not rebuild INDEX during preprocessing.

     * -noduds - Do not rebuild the duds file (ports that are never
       built, e.g. those marked IGNORE, NO_PACKAGE, etc.) during
       preprocessing.

     * -nochecksubdirs - Do not check the SUBDIRS for ports that are
       not connected to the build. (New codebase only).

     * -trybroken - Try to build BROKEN ports (off by default because
       the amd64/i386 clusters are fast enough now that when doing
       incremental builds, more time was spent rebuilding things that
       were going to fail anyway. Conversely, the other clusters are
       slow enough that it would be a waste of time to try and build
       BROKEN ports).

         Note: With -trybroken, you probably also want to use
         -fetch-original (and, on the new codebase,
         -unlimited-errors).

     * -nosrc - Do not update the src tree from the ZFS snapshot,
       keep the tree from previous build instead.

     * -srccvs - Do not update the src tree from the ZFS snapshot,
       update it with cvs update instead.

     * -noports - Do not update the ports tree from the ZFS snapshot,
       keep the tree from previous build instead.

     * -portscvs - Do not update the ports tree from the ZFS
       snapshot, update it with cvs update instead.

     * -norestr - Do not attempt to build RESTRICTED ports.

     * -noplistcheck - Do not make it fatal for ports to leave behind
       files after deinstallation.

     * -nodistfiles - Do not collect distfiles that pass make
       checksum for later uploading to ftp-master.

     * -fetch-original - Fetch the distfile from the original
       MASTER_SITES rather than ftp-master.

     * -unlimited-errors (new codebase only) - defeat the "qmanager
       threshhold" check for runaway builds. You want this primarily
       when doing a -restart of a build that you expect to mostly
       fail, or perhaps a -trybroken run. By default, the threshhold
       check is done.

   Unless you specify -restart, -continue, or -finish, the symlinks
   for the existing builds will be rotated. i.e, the existing symlink
   for previous will be deleted; the most recent build will have its
   symlink changed to previous/; and a new build will be created and
   symlinked into latest/.

   If the last build finished cleanly you do not need to delete
   anything. If it was interrupted, or you selected -nocleanup, you
   need to clean up clients by running

   build cleanup ${arch} ${branch} ${buildid} -full

   errors/, logs/, packages/, and so forth, are cleaned by the
   scripts. If you are short of space, you can also clean out
   ports/distfiles/. Leave the latest/ directory alone; it is a
   symlink for the webserver.

     Note: dosetupnodes is supposed to be run from the dopackages
     script in the -restart case, but it can be a good idea to run it
     by hand and then verify that the clients all have the expected
     job load. Sometimes, dosetupnode cannot clean up a build and you
     need to do it by hand. (This is a bug.)

   Make sure the ${arch} build is run as the ports-${arch} user or it
   will complain loudly.

     Note: The actual package build itself occurs in two identical
     phases. The reason for this is that sometimes transient problems
     (e.g. NFS failures, FTP sites being unreachable, etc.) may halt
     a build. Doing things in two phases is a workaround for these
     types of problems.

   Be careful that ports/Makefile does not specify any empty
   subdirectories. This is especially important if you are doing an
   -exp build. If the build process encounters an empty subdirectory,
   both package build phases will stop short, and an error similar to
   the following will be written to ${arch}/${branch}/make.[0|1]:

 don't know how to make dns-all(continuing)

   To correct this problem, simply comment out or remove the SUBDIR
   entries that point to empty subdirectories. After doing this, you
   can restart the build by running the proper dopackages command
   with the -restart option.

     Note: This problem also appears if you create a new category
     Makefile with no SUBDIRs in it. This is probably a bug.

   Example 1. Update the i386-7 tree and do a complete build

   dopackages.7 i386 -nosrc -norestr -nofinish

   dopackages.wrapper i386 7 -nosrc -norestr -nofinish

   Example 2. Restart an interrupted amd64-8 build without updating

   dopackages.8 amd64 -nosrc -noports -norestr -continue -noindex
   -noduds -nofinish

   dopackages.wrapper amd64 8 -nosrc -noports -norestr -continue
   -noindex -noduds -nofinish

   Example 3. Post-process a completed sparc64-7 tree

   dopackages.7 sparc64 -finish

   dopackages.wrapper sparc64 7 -finish

   Hint: it us usually best to run the dopackages command inside of
   screen(1).

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  4.2 build command

   You may need to manipulate the build data before starting it,
   especially for experimental builds. This is done with the build
   command. Here are the useful options for creation:

     * build create arch branch [newid] - Creates newid (or a
       datestamp if not specified). Only needed when bringing up a
       new branch or a new architecture. (TODO: document whether
       newid must be specified as latest in the new codebase.)

     * build clone arch branch oldid [newid] - Clones oldid to newid
       (or a datestamp if not specified).

     * build srcupdate arch branch buildid - Replaces the src tree
       with a new ZFS snapshot. Don't forget to use -nosrc flag to
       dopackages later!

     * build portsupdate arch branch buildid - Replaces the ports
       tree with a new ZFS snapshot. Don't forget to use -noports
       flag to dopackages later!

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  4.3 Building a single package

   Sometimes there is a need to rebuild a single package from the
   package set. This can be accomplished with the following
   invocation:

   /var/portbuild/evil/qmanager/packagebuild amd64 7-exp
   20080904212103 aclock-0.2.3_2.tbz

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5 Anatomy of a Build

   A full build without any -no options performs the following
   operations in the specified order:

    1. An update of the current ports tree from the ZFS snapshot [*]

    2. An update of the running branch's src tree from the ZFS
       snapshot [*]

    3. Checks which ports do not have a SUBDIR entry in their
       respective category's Makefile [*]

    4. Creates the duds file, which is a list of ports not to build
       [*] [+]

    5. Generates a fresh INDEX file [*] [+]

    6. Sets up the nodes that will be used in the build [*] [+]

    7. Builds a list of restricted ports [*] [+]

    8. Builds packages (phase 1) [++]

    9. Performs another node setup [+]

   10. Builds packages (phase 2) [++]

   [*] Status of these steps can be found in
   ${arch}/${branch}/build.log as well as on stderr of the tty
   running the dopackages command.

   [+] If any of these steps fail, the build will stop cold in its
   tracks.

   [++] Status of these steps can be found in ${arch}/${branch}/make
   (old codebase) or ${arch}/${branch}/journal (new codebase).
   Individual ports will write their build logs to
   ${arch}/${branch}/logs and their error logs to
   ${arch}/${branch}/errors.

   Formerly the docs tree was also checked out, however, it has been
   found to be unnecessary.

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6 Build Maintenance

   There are several cases where you will need to manually clean up a
   build:

    1. You have manually interrupted it.

    2. pointyhat has been rebooted while a build was running.

    3. qmanager has crashed and has been restarted.

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  6.1 Interrupting a Build

   Manually interrupting a build is a bit messy. First you need to
   identify the tty in which it's running (either record the output
   of tty(1) when you start the build, or use ps x to identify it.
   You need to make sure that nothing else important is running in
   this tty, e.g. ps -t p1 or whatever. If there is not, you can just
   kill off the whole term easily with pkill -t pts/1; otherwise
   issue a kill -HUP in there by, for example, ps -t pts/1 -o pid= |
   xargs kill -HUP. Replace p1 by whatever the tty is, of course.

   The package builds dispatched by make to the client machines will
   clean themselves up after a few minutes (check with ps x until
   they all go away).

   If you do not kill make(1), then it will spawn more jobs. If you
   do not kill dopackages, then it will restart the entire build. If
   you do not kill the pdispatch processes, they'll keep going (or
   respawn) until they've built their package.

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  6.2 Cleaning up a Build

   To free up resources, you will need to clean up client machines by
   running build cleanup command. For example:

 % /var/portbuild/scripts/build cleanup i386 8-exp 20080714120411 -full

   If you forget to do this, then the old build chroots will not be
   cleaned up for 24 hours, and no new jobs will be dispatched in
   their place since pointyhat thinks the job slot is still occupied.

   To check, cat ~/loads/* to display the status of client machines;
   the first column is the number of jobs it thinks is running, and
   this should be roughly concordant with the load average. loads is
   refreshed every 2 minutes. If you do ps x | grep pdispatch and
   it's less than the number of jobs that loads thinks are in use,
   you're in trouble.

   You may have problem with the umount commands hanging. If so, you
   are going to have to use the allgohans script to run an ssh(1)
   command across all clients for that buildenv. For example:

 ssh -l root gohan24 df

   will get you a df, and

 allgohans "umount -f pointyhat.freebsd.org:/var/portbuild/i386/8-exp/ports"
 allgohans "umount -f pointyhat.freebsd.org:/var/portbuild/i386/8-exp/src"

   are supposed to get rid of the hanging mounts. You will have to
   keep doing them since there can be multiple mounts.

     Note: Ignore the following:

 umount: pointyhat.freebsd.org:/var/portbuild/i386/8-exp/ports: statfs: No such file or directory
 umount: pointyhat.freebsd.org:/var/portbuild/i386/8-exp/ports: unknown file system
 umount: Cleanup of /x/tmp/8-exp/chroot/53837/compat/linux/proc failed!
 /x/tmp/8-exp/chroot/53837/compat/linux/proc: not a file system root directory

     The former 2 mean that that client did not have those mounted;
     the latter 2 are a bug.

     You may also see messages about procfs.

   After you have done all the above, remove the ${arch}/lock file
   before trying to restart the build. If you do not, dopackages will
   simply exit.

   If you have to do a ports tree update before restarting, you may
   have to rebuild either duds, INDEX, or both.

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  6.3 Maintaining builds with the build command

   Here are the rest of the options for the build command:

     * build destroy arch branch - Destroy the build id.

     * build list arch branch - Shows the current set of build ids.

     * build upload arch branch - not yet implemented.

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7 Monitoring the Build

   You can use qclient command to monitor the status of build nodes,
   and to list the currently scheduled jobs:

   python /var/portbuild/evil/qmanager/qclient jobs

   python /var/portbuild/evil/qmanager/qclient status

   The scripts/stats ${branch} command shows the number of packages
   already built.

   Running cat /var/portbuild/*/loads/* shows the client loads and
   number of concurrent builds in progress. The files that have been
   recently updated are the clients that are online; the others are
   the offline clients.

     Note: The pdispatch command does the dispatching of work onto
     the client, and post-processing. ptimeout.host is a watchdog
     that kills a build after timeouts. So, having 50 pdispatch
     processes but only 4 ssh(1) processes means 46 pdispatches are
     idle, waiting to get an idle node.

   Running tail -f ${arch}/${branch}/build.log shows the overall
   build progress.

   If a port build is failing, and it is not immediately obvious from
   the log as to why, you can preserve the WRKDIR for further
   analysis. To do this, touch a file called .keep in the port's
   directory. The next time the cluster tries to build this port, it
   will tar, compress, and copy the WRKDIR to
   ${arch}/${branch}/wrkdirs.

   If you find that the system is looping trying to build the same
   package over and over again, you may be able to fix the problem by
   rebuilding the offending package by hand.

   If all the builds start failing with complaints that they cannot
   load the dependent packages, check to see that httpd is still
   running, and restart it if not.

   Keep an eye on df(1) output. If the /var/portbuild file system
   becomes full then Bad Things(TM) happen.

   The status of all current builds is generated twice an hour and
   posted to
   http://pointyhat.FreeBSD.org/errorlogs/packagestats.html. For each
   buildenv, the following is displayed:

     * cvs date is the contents of cvsdone. This is why we recommend
       that you update cvsdone for -exp runs (see below).

     * date of latest log

     * number of lines in INDEX

     * the number of current build logs

     * the number of completed packages

     * the number of errors

     * the number of duds (shown as skipped)

     * missing shows the difference between INDEX and the other
       columns. If you have restarted a run after a cvs update, there
       will likely be duplicates in the packages and error columns,
       and this column will be meaningless. (The script is naive).

     * running and completed are guesses based on a grep(1) of
       build.log.

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8 Dealing With Build Errors

   The easiest way to track build failures is to receive the emailed
   logs and sort them to a folder, so you can maintain a running list
   of current failures and detect new ones easily. To do this, add an
   email address to ${branch}/portbuild.conf. You can easily bounce
   the new ones to maintainers.

   After a port appears broken on every build combination multiple
   times, it is time to mark it BROKEN. Two weeks' notification for
   the maintainers seems fair.

     Note: To avoid build errors with ports that need to be manually
     fetched, put the distfiles into ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles.
     Access restrictions are in place to make sure that only the
     build clients can access this directory.

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9 Release Builds

   When building packages for a release, it may be necessary to
   manually update the ports and src trees to the release tag and use
   -nocvs and -noportscvs.

   To build package sets intended for use on a CD-ROM, use the -cdrom
   option to dopackages.

   If the disk space is not available on the cluster, use
   -nodistfiles to avoid collecting distfiles.

   After the initial build completes, restart the build with -restart
   -fetch-original to collect updated distfiles as well. Then, once
   the build is post-processed, take an inventory of the list of
   files fetched:

 % cd ${arch}/${branch}
 % find distfiles > distfiles-${release}

   This inventory file typically lives in i386/${branch} on the
   cluster master.

   This is useful to aid in periodically cleaning out the distfiles
   from ftp-master. When space gets tight, distfiles from recent
   releases can be kept while others can be thrown away.

   Once the distfiles have been uploaded (see below), the final
   release package set must be created. Just to be on the safe side,
   run the ${arch}/${branch}/cdrom.sh script by hand to make sure all
   the CD-ROM restricted packages and distfiles have been pruned.
   Then, copy the ${arch}/${branch}/packages directory to
   ${arch}/${branch}/packages-${release}. Once the packages are
   safely moved off, contact the Release Engineering Team
   <re@FreeBSD.org> and inform them of the release package location.

   Remember to coordinate with the Release Engineering Team
   <re@FreeBSD.org> about the timing and status of the release
   builds.

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10 Uploading Packages

   Once a build has completed, packages and/or distfiles can be
   transferred to ftp-master for propagation to the FTP mirror
   network. If the build was run with -nofinish, then make sure to
   follow up with dopackages -finish to post-process the packages
   (removes RESTRICTED and NO_CDROM packages where appropriate,
   prunes packages not listed in INDEX, removes from INDEX references
   to packages not built, and generates a CHECKSUM.MD5 summary); and
   distfiles (moves them from the temporary distfiles/.pbtmp
   directory into distfiles/ and removes RESTRICTED and NO_CDROM
   distfiles).

   It is usually a good idea to run the restricted.sh and/or cdrom.sh
   scripts by hand after dopackages finishes just to be safe. Run the
   restricted.sh script before uploading to ftp-master, then run
   cdrom.sh before preparing the final package set for a release.

   The package subdirectories are named by whether they are for
   release, stable, or current. Examples:

     * packages-7.2-release

     * packages-7-stable

     * packages-8-stable

     * packages-9-stable

     * packages-10-current

     Note: Some of the directories on ftp-master are, in fact,
     symlinks. Examples:

       * packages-stable

       * packages-current

     Be sure you move the new packages directory over the real
     destination directory, and not one of the symlinks that points
     to it.

   If you are doing a completely new package set (e.g. for a new
   release), copy packages to the staging area on ftp-master with
   something like the following:

 # cd /var/portbuild/${arch}/${branch}
 # tar cfv - packages/ | ssh portmgr@ftp-master tar xfC - w/ports/${arch}/tmp/${subdir}

   Then log into ftp-master, verify that the package set was
   transferred successfully, remove the package set that the new
   package set is to replace (in ~/w/ports/${arch}), and move the new
   set into place. (w/ is merely a shortcut.)

   For incremental builds, packages should be uploaded using rsync so
   we do not put too much strain on the mirrors.

   ALWAYS use -n first with rsync and check the output to make sure
   it is sane. If it looks good, re-run the rsync without the -n
   option.

   Example rsync command for incremental package upload:

 # rsync -n -r -v -l -t -p --delete packages/ portmgr@ftp-master:w/ports/${arch}/${subdir}/ | tee log

   Distfiles should be transferred with the cpdistfiles script:

 # /var/portbuild/scripts/cpdistfiles ${arch} ${branch} ${buildid} [-yesreally] | tee log2

   Doing it by hand is deprecated.

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11 Experimental Patches Builds

   Experimental patches builds are run from time to time to new
   features or bugfixes to the ports infrastructure (i.e.
   bsd.port.mk), or to test large sweeping upgrades. At any given
   time there may be several simultaneous experimental patches
   branches, such as 8-exp on the amd64 architecture.

   In general, an experimental patches build is run the same way as
   any other build, except that you should first update the ports
   tree to the latest version and then apply your patches. To do the
   former, you can use the following:

 % cvs -R update -dP > update.out
 % date > cvsdone

   This will most closely simulate what the dopackages script does.
   (While cvsdone is merely informative, it can be a help.)

   You will need to edit update.out to look for lines beginning with
   ^M, ^C, or ^? and then deal with them.

   It is always a good idea to save original copies of all changed
   files, as well as a list of what you are changing. You can then
   look back on this list when doing the final commit, to make sure
   you are committing exactly what you tested.

   Since the machine is shared, someone else may delete your changes
   by mistake, so keep a copy of them in e.g. your home directory on
   freefall. Do not use tmp/; since pointyhat itself runs some
   version of -CURRENT, you can expect reboots (if nothing else, for
   updates).

   In order to have a good control case with which to compare
   failures, you should first do a package build of the branch on
   which the experimental patches branch is based for the i386
   architecture (currently this is 8). Then, when preparing for the
   experimental patches build, checkout a ports tree and a src tree
   with the same date as was used for the control build. This will
   ensure an apples-to-apples comparison later.

   Once the build finishes, compare the control build failures to
   those of the experimental patches build. Use the following
   commands to facilitate this (this assumes the 8 branch is the
   control branch, and the 8-exp branch is the experimental patches
   branch):

 % cd /var/portbuild/i386/8-exp/errors
 % find . -name \*.log\* | sort > /tmp/8-exp-errs
 % cd /var/portbuild/i386/8/errors
 % find . -name \*.log\* | sort > /tmp/8-errs

     Note: If it has been a long time since one of the builds
     finished, the logs may have been automatically compressed with
     bzip2. In that case, you must use sort | sed 's,\.bz2,,g'
     instead.

 % comm -3 /tmp/8-errs /tmp/8-exp-errs | less

   This last command will produce a two-column report. The first
   column is ports that failed on the control build but not in the
   experimental patches build; the second column is vice versa.
   Reasons that the port might be in the first column include:

     * Port was fixed since the control build was run, or was
       upgraded to a newer version that is also broken (thus the
       newer version should appear in the second column)

     * Port is fixed by the patches in the experimental patches build

     * Port did not build under the experimental patches build due to
       a dependency failure

   Reasons for a port appearing in the second column include:

     * Port was broken by the experimental patches [1]

     * Port was upgraded since the control build and has become
       broken [2]

     * Port was broken due to a transient error (e.g. FTP site down,
       package client error, etc.)

   Both columns should be investigated and the reason for the errors
   understood before committing the experimental patches set. To
   differentiate between [1] and [2] above, you can do a rebuild of
   the affected packages under the control branch:

 % cd /var/portbuild/i386/8/ports

     Note: Be sure to cvs update this tree to the same date as the
     experimental patches tree.

   The following command will set up the control branch for the
   partial build (old codebase):

 % /var/portbuild/scripts/dopackages.8 -noportscvs -nobuild -nocvs -nofinish

   The builds must be performed from the packages/All directory. This
   directory should initially be empty except for the Makefile
   symlink. If this symlink does not exist, it must be created:

 % cd /var/portbuild/i386/8/packages/All
 % ln -sf ../../Makefile .
 % make -k -j<#> <list of packages to build>

     Note: <#> is the concurrency of the build to attempt. It is
     usually the sum of the weights listed in
     /var/portbuild/i386/mlist unless you have a reason to run a
     heavier or lighter build.

     The list of packages to build should be a list of package names
     (including versions) as they appear in INDEX. The PKGSUFFIX
     (i.e. .tgz or .tbz) is optional.

   This will build only those packages listed as well as all of their
   dependencies.

   You can check the progress of this partial build the same way you
   would a regular build.

   Once all the errors have been resolved, you can commit the package
   set. After committing, it is customary to send a HEADS UP email to
   ports@FreeBSD.org and copy ports-developers@FreeBSD.org informing
   people of the changes. A summary of all changes should also be
   committed to /usr/ports/CHANGES.

     --------------------------------------------------------------

12 How to configure a new package building node

   Before following these steps, please coordinate with portmgr.

     Note: Due to some generous donations, portmgr is no longer
     looking for the loan of i386 or amd64 systems. However, we are
     still interested in borrowing tier-2 systems.

     --------------------------------------------------------------

  12.1 Node requirements

   portmgr is still working on characterizing what a node needs to be
   generally useful.

     * CPU capacity: anything less than 500MHz is generally not
       useful for package building.

         Note: We are able to adjust the number of jobs dispatched to
         each machine, and we generally tune the number to use 100%
         of CPU.

     * RAM: Less than 2G is not very useful; 8G or more is preferred.
       We have been tuning to one job per 512M of RAM.

     * disk: at least 20G is needed for filesystem; 32G is needed for
       swap. Best performance will be if multiple disks are used, and
       configured as geom stripes. Performance numbers are also TBA.

         Note: Package building will test disk drives to destruction.
         Be aware of what you are signing up for!

     * network bandwidth: TBA. However, an 8-job machine has been
       shown to saturate a cable modem line.

     --------------------------------------------------------------

  12.2 Preparation

    1. Pick a unique hostname. It does not have to be a publicly
       resolvable hostname (it can be a name on your internal
       network).

    2. By default, package building requires the following TCP ports
       to be accessible: 22 (ssh), 414 (infoseek), and 8649
       (ganglia). If these are not accessible, pick others and ensure
       that an ssh tunnel is set up (see below).

       (Note: if you have more than one machine at your site, you
       will need an individual TCP port for each service on each
       machine, and thus ssh tunnels will be necessary. As such, you
       will probably need to configure port forwarding on your
       firewall.)

    3. Decide if you will be booting natively or via pxeboot. You
       will find that it is easier to keep up with changes to
       -current with the latter, especially if you have multiple
       machines at your site.

    4. Pick a directory to hold ports configuration and chroot
       subdirectories. It may be best to put it this on its own
       partition. (Example: /usr2/.)

     --------------------------------------------------------------

  12.3 Configuring src

    1. Create a directory to contain the latest -current source tree
       and check it out. (Since your machine will likely be asked to
       build packages for -current, the kernel it runs should be
       reasonably up-to-date with the bindist that will be exported
       by our scripts.)

    2. If you are using pxeboot: create a directory to contain the
       install bits. You will probably want to use a subdirectory of
       /pxeroot, e.g., /pxeroot/${arch}-${branch}. Export that as
       DESTDIR.

    3. If you are cross-building, export TARGET_ARCH=${arch}.

         Note: The procedure for cross-building ports is not yet
         defined.

    4. Generate a kernel config file. Include GENERIC (or, if you are
       using more than 3.5G on i386, PAE).

       Required options:

 options         NULLFS
 options         TMPFS

       Suggested options:

 options         GEOM_CONCAT
 options         GEOM_STRIPE
 options         SHMMAXPGS=65536
 options         SEMMNI=40
 options         SEMMNS=240
 options         SEMUME=40
 options         SEMMNU=120

 options         ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER

       For PAE, it is not currently possible to load modules.
       Therefore, if you are running an architecture that supports
       Linux emulation, you will need to add:

 options         COMPAT_LINUX
 options         LINPROCFS

       Also for PAE, as of 20110912 you need the following. This
       needs to be investigated:

 nooption        NFSD                    # New Network Filesystem Server
 options         NFSCLIENT               # Network Filesystem Client
 options         NFSSERVER               # Network Filesystem Server

    5. As root, do the usual build steps, e.g.:

 make -j4 buildworld
 make buildkernel KERNCONF=${kernconf}
 make installkernel KERNCONF=${kernconf}
 make installworld

       The install steps use DESTDIR.

    6. Customize files in etc/. Whether you do this on the client
       itself, or another machine, will depend on whether you are
       using pxeboot.

       If you are using pxeboot: create a subdirectory of ${DESTDIR}
       called conf/. Create one subdirectory default/etc/, and (if
       your site will host multiple nodes), subdirectories
       ${ip-address}/etc/ to contain override files for individual
       hosts. (You may find it handy to symlink each of those
       directories to a hostname.) Copy the entire contents of
       ${DESTDIR}/etc/ to default/etc/; that is where you will edit
       your files. The by-ip-address etc/ directories will probably
       only need customized rc.conf files.

       In either case, apply the following steps:

          * Create a ports-${arch} user and group. Add it to the
            wheel group. It can have the '*' password.

            Create /home/ports-${arch}/.ssh/ and populate
            authorized_keys.

          * Also add the following users:

 squid:*:100:100::0:0:User &:/usr/local/squid:/bin/sh
 ganglia:*:102:102::0:0:User &:/usr/local/ganglia:/bin/sh

            Add them to etc/group as well.

          * Create the appropriate files in etc/.ssh/.

          * In etc/crontab: add

 *       *       *       *       *       root    /var/portbuild/scripts/client-metrics

          * Create the appropriate etc/fstab. (If you have multiple,
            different, machines, you will need to put those in the
            override directories.)

          * In etc/inetd.conf: add

 infoseek        stream  tcp     nowait  nobody  /var/portbuild/scripts/reportload

          * We run the cluster on UTC:

 cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC etc/localtime

          * Create the appropriate etc/rc.conf. (If you are using
            pxeboot, and have multiple, different, machines, you will
            need to put those in the override directories.)

            Recommended entries for physical nodes:

 hostname="${hostname}"
 inetd_enable="YES"
 linux_enable="YES"
 nfs_client_enable="YES"
 ntpd_enable="YES"
 ntpdate_enable="YES"
 ntpdate_flags="north-america.pool.ntp.org"
 sendmail_enable="NONE"
 sshd_enable="YES"
 sshd_program="/usr/local/sbin/sshd"

 gmond_enable="YES"
 squid_enable="YES"
 squid_chdir="/usr2/squid/logs"
 squid_pidfile="/usr2/squid/logs/squid.pid"

            Required entries for VMWare-based nodes:

 vmware_guest_vmmemctl_enable="YES"
 vmware_guest_guestd_enable="YES"

            Recommended entries for VMWare-based nodes:

 hostname=""
 ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
 fsck_y_enable="YES"

 inetd_enable="YES"
 linux_enable="YES"
 nfs_client_enable="YES"
 sendmail_enable="NONE"
 sshd_enable="YES"
 sshd_program="/usr/local/sbin/sshd"

 gmond_enable="YES"
 squid_enable="YES"
 squid_chdir="/usr2/squid/logs"
 squid_pidfile="/usr2/squid/logs/squid.pid"

            ntpd(8) should not be enabled for VMWare instances.

            Also, it may be possible to leave squid disabled by
            default so as to not have /usr2 persistent (which should
            save instantiation time.) Work is still ongoing.

          * Create etc/resolv.conf, if necessary.

          * Modify etc/sysctl.conf:

 9a10,30
 > kern.corefile=/usr2/%N.core
 > kern.sugid_coredump=1
 > #debug.witness_ddb=0
 > #debug.witness_watch=0
 >
 > # squid needs a lot of fds (leak?)
 > kern.maxfiles=40000
 > kern.maxfilesperproc=30000
 >
 > # Since the NFS root is static we don't need to check frequently for file changes
 > # This saves >75% of NFS traffic
 > vfs.nfs.access_cache_timeout=300
 > debug.debugger_on_panic=1
 >
 > # For jailing
 > security.jail.sysvipc_allowed=1
 > security.jail.allow_raw_sockets=1
 > security.jail.chflags_allowed=1
 > security.jail.enforce_statfs=1
 >
 > vfs.lookup_shared=1

          * If desired, modify etc/syslog.conf to change the logging
            destinations to @pointyhat.freebsd.org.

     --------------------------------------------------------------

  12.4 Configuring ports

    1. Install the following ports:

 net/rsync
 security/openssh-portable (with HPN on)
 security/sudo
 sysutils/ganglia-monitor-core (with GMETAD off)
 www/squid (with SQUID_AUFS on)

       There is a WIP to create a meta-port, but it is not yet
       complete.

    2. Customize files in usr/local/etc/. Whether you do this on the
       client itself, or another machine, will depend on whether you
       are using pxeboot.

         Note: The trick of using conf override subdirectories is
         less effective here, because you would need to copy over all
         subdirectories of usr/. This is an implementation detail of
         how the pxeboot works.

       Apply the following steps:

          * Modify usr/local/etc/gmond.conf:

 21,22c21,22
 <   name = "unspecified"
 <   owner = "unspecified"
 ---
 >   name = "${arch} package build cluster"
 >   owner = "portmgr@FreeBSD.org"
 24c24
 <   url = "unspecified"
 ---
 >   url = "http://pointyhat.freebsd.org"

            If there are machines from more than one cluster in the
            same multicast domain (basically = LAN) then change the
            multicast groups to different values (.71, .72, etc).

          * Create usr/local/etc/rc.d/portbuild.sh, using the
            appropriate value for scratchdir:

 #!/bin/sh
 #
 # Configure a package build system post-boot

 scratchdir=/usr2

 ln -sf ${scratchdir}/portbuild /var/

 # Identify builds ready for use
 cd /var/portbuild/${arch}
 for i in */builds/*; do
     if [ -f ${i}/.ready ]; then
         mkdir /tmp/.setup-${i##*/}
     fi
 done

 # Flag that we are ready to accept jobs
 touch /tmp/.boot_finished

          * Modify usr/local/etc/squid/squid.conf:

 288,290c288,290
 < #auth_param basic children 5
 < #auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
 < #auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
 ---
 > auth_param basic children 5
 > auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
 > auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
 611a612
 > acl localnet src 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
 655a657
 > http_access allow localnet
 2007a2011
 > maximum_object_size 400 MB
 2828a2838
 > negative_ttl 0 minutes

            Also, change usr/local to usr2 in cache_dir, access_log,
            cache_log, cache_store_log, pid_filename, netdb_filename,
            coredump_dir.

            Finally, change the cache_dir storage scheme from ufs to
            aufs (offers better performance).

          * Configure ssh: copy /etc/ssh to /usr/local/etc/ssh and
            add NoneEnabled yes to sshd_config.

          * Modify usr/local/etc/sudoers:

 38a39,42
 >
 > # local changes for package building
 > %wheel        ALL=(ALL) ALL
 > ports-${arch}    ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

     --------------------------------------------------------------

  12.5 Configuration on the client itself

    1. Change into the port/package directory you picked above, e.g.,
       cd /usr2.

    2. As root:

 mkdir portbuild
 chown ports-${arch}:ports-${arch} portbuild
 mkdir pkgbuild
 chown ports-${arch}:ports-${arch} pkgbuild
 mkdir squid
 mkdir squid/cache
 mkdir squid/logs
 chown -R squid:squid squid

    3. If clients preserve /var/portbuild between boots then they
       must either preserve their /tmp, or revalidate their available
       builds at boot time (see the script on the amd64 machines).
       They must also clean up stale chroots from previous builds
       before creating /tmp/.boot_finished.

    4. Boot the client.

    5. As root, initialize the squid directories:

 squid -z

     --------------------------------------------------------------

  12.6 Configuration on pointyhat

   These steps need to be taken by a portmgr acting as ports-${arch}
   on pointyhat.

    1. If any of the default TCP ports is not available (see above),
       you will need to create an ssh tunnel for it and include it in
       the crontab.

    2. Add an entry to /home/ports-${arch}/.ssh/config to specify the
       public IP address, TCP port for ssh, username, and any other
       necessary information.

    3. Create /var/portbuild/${arch}/clients/bindist-${hostname}.tar.

          * Copy one of the existing ones as a template and unpack it
            in a temporary directory.

          * Customize etc/resolv.conf for the local site.

          * Customize etc/make.conf for FTP fetches for the local
            site. Note: the nulling-out of MASTER_SITE_BACKUP must be
            common to all nodes, but the first entry in
            MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE should be the nearest local FTP
            mirror. Example:

 .if defined(FETCH_ORIGINAL)
 MASTER_SITE_BACKUP=
 .else
 MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE= \
         ftp://friendly-local-ftp-mirror/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ \
         ftp://${BACKUP_FTP_SITE}/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/
 .endif

          * tar it up and move it to the right location.

       Hint: you will need one of these for each machine; however, if
       you have multiple machines at one site, you should create a
       site-specific one (e.g. in /var/portbuild/conf/clients/) and
       symlink to it.

    4. Create /var/portbuild/${arch}/portbuild-${hostname} using one
       of the existing ones as a guide. This file contains overrides
       to /var/portbuild/${arch}/portbuild.conf.

       Suggested values:

 disconnected=1
 http_proxy="http://localhost:3128/"
 squid_dir=/usr2/squid
 scratchdir=/usr2/pkgbuild
 client_user=ports-${arch}
 sudo_cmd="sudo -H"
 rsync_gzip=-z

 infoseek_host=localhost
 infoseek_port=${tunelled-tcp-port}

       Possible other values:

 use_md_swap=1
 md_size=9g
 use_zfs=1
 scp_cmd="/usr/local/bin/scp"
 ssh_cmd="/usr/local/bin/ssh"

   These steps need to be taken by a portmgr acting as root on
   pointyhat.

    1. Add the public IP address to /etc/hosts.allow. (Remember,
       multiple machines can be on the same IP address.)

    2. Add an appropriate data_source entry to
       /usr/local/etc/gmetad.conf:

       data_source "arch/location Package Build Cluster" 30 hostname

       You will need to restart gmetad.

     --------------------------------------------------------------

  12.7 Enabling the node

   These steps need to be taken by a portmgr acting as ports-arch on
   pointyhat.

    1. Ensure that ssh is working by executing ssh hostname.

    2. Populate /var/portbuild/scripts/ by something like
       /var/portbuild/scripts/dosetupnode arch major latest hostname.
       Verify that you now have files in that directory.

    3. Test the other TCP ports by executing telnet hostname
       portnumber. 414 (or its tunnel) should give you a few lines of
       status information including arch and osversion; 8649 should
       give you an XML response from ganglia.

   This step needs to be taken by a portmgr acting as root on
   pointyhat.

    1. Tell qmanager about the node. Example:

       python /var/portbuild/evil/qmanager/qclient add
       name=uniquename arch=arch osversion=osversion numcpus=number
       haszfs=0 online=1 domain=domain primarypool=package
       pools="package all" maxjobs=1 acl="ports-arch,deny_all"

     --------------------------------------------------------------

13 How to configure a new FreeBSD branch

   When a new branch is created, some work needs to be done to
   specify that the previous branch is no longer equivalent to HEAD.
   The following instructions apply to the previous branch number:

     * (new codebase) Edit /var/portbuild/conf/server.conf with the
       following changes:

          * Add new-branch to SRC_BRANCHES.

          * For what was previously head, change
            SRC_BRANCH_branch_TAG to RELENG_branch_0.

          * Add SRC_BRANCH_new-branch_TAG =. (literal period).

     * (new codebase) Run /var/portbuild/updatesnap manually.

     * (Only for old codebase) Create a new zfs filesystem for
       sources:

 zfs create a/snap/src-branch

     * (Only necessary for old codebase): Checkout a src tree in the
       new filesystem:

 cvs -Rq -d /r/ncvs co -d src-branch-r RELENG_branch

     * (Only necessary for old codebase): Edit the master copy of
       Tools/portbuild/portbuild.conf.

     * (Only necessary for old codebase): For each arch, edit its
       copy of the above in /var/portbuild/arch/portbuild.conf.

     * (Only necessary for old codebase): Edit
       /var/portbuild/scripts/buildenv.

     * (Only necessary for old codebase): Add a link from
       /var/portbuild/scripts/dopackages to
       /var/portbuild/scripts/dopackages.branch.

     * (Only necessary for old codebase): Modify HEAD_BRANCH and
       NON_HEAD_BRANCHES in /var/portbuild/scripts/updatesnap.

     * (Only necessary for old codebase): Add the snap directory to
       /var/portbuild/scripts/zexpire.

     * (Only necessary for old codebase): In the
       /var/portbuild/errorlogs/ directory, create links for the
       webserver:

 ln -s ../arch/branch/builds/latest/bak/errors arch-branch-full
 ln -s ../arch/branch/builds/latest/bak/logs arch-branch-full-logs
 ln -s ../arch/branch/builds/latest/errors arch-branch-latest
 ln -s ../arch/branch/builds/latest/logs arch-branch-latest-logs
 ln -s ../arch/branch/builds/latest/bak/packages arch-branch-packages-full
 ln -s ../arch/branch/builds/latest/packages arch-branch-packages-latest

     * Kick-start the build for the branch with

 build create arch branch

     * Create bindist.tar .

     --------------------------------------------------------------

14 How to delete an unsupported FreeBSD branch

   When an old branch goes out of support, there are some things to
   garbage-collect.

     * (new codebase) Edit /var/portbuild/conf/server.conf with the
       following changes:

          * Delete old-branch from SRC_BRANCHES.

          * Delete SRC_BRANCH_old-branch_TAG =whatever

     * (both): umount a/snap/src-old-branch/src; umount
       a/snap/src-old-branch; zfs destroy -r a/snap/src-old-branch

     * (both) You will probably find that the following files and
       symlinks in /var/portbuild/errorlogs/ can be removed:

          * Files named *-old_branch-failure.html

          * Files named buildlogs_*-old_branch-*-logs.txt

          * Symlinks named *-old_branch-previous*

          * Symlinks named *-old_branch-latest*

     --------------------------------------------------------------

15 How to rebase on a supported FreeBSD branch

   As of 2011, the philosophy of package building is to build
   packages based on the earliest supported release of each branch.
   e.g.: if on RELENG-8, the following releases are supported: 8.1,
   8.2, 8.3; then packages-8-stable should be built from 8.1.

   As releases go End-Of-Life (see chart), a full (not incremental!)
   package build should be done and uploaded.

   The procedure for the new codebase is as follows:

     * Edit /var/portbuild/conf/server.conf with the following
       changes:

          * Change SRC_BRANCH_branch_TAG to RELENG_branch_N where N
            is the newest 'oldest' release for that branch.

     * Run /var/portbuild/updatesnap manually.

     * Run dopackages with -nobuild.

     * Follow the setup procedure.

     * Now you can run dopackages without -nobuild.

   The procedure for the old codebase is left as an exercise for the
   reader.

     --------------------------------------------------------------

16 How to configure a new architecture

     * Create a new ports-arch user and group.

     * mkdir /var/portbuild/arch; cd /var/portbuild/arch

     * Create a new zfs filesystem:

 zfs create -o mountpoint=/a/portbuild/arch a/portbuild/arch

     * Create a directory for buildlogs and errorlogs:

 mkdir /dumpster/pointyhat/arch/archive

         Note: It is possible that /dumpster/pointyhat will not have
         enough space. In that case, create the archive directory as
         /dumpster/pointyhat/arch/archive and symlink to that. (This
         needs to be sorted out.)

     * Create a link to the above for the webserver:

 ln -s /dumpster/pointyhat/arch/archive archive

     * In the /var/portbuild/arch directory:

 mkdir clients

     * Populate clients as usual.

     * mkdir loads

     * mkdir lockfiles

     * Create a local make.conf. In the most trivial case, you can

 ln ../make.conf ./make.conf

     * Create an empty mlist file.

     * Create pnohang.arch. (The easiest way may be to do the
       following on a client, and then copy it back):

 cc pnohang.c -o pnohang-arch

     * Create a fresh portbuild.conf file from one of the ones for
       another architecture.

     * Create customized portbuild.machinename.conf files as
       appropriate.

     * cd .ssh && ssh-keygen

     * Edit the .ssh/config file for convenience in using ssh.

     * Make the private configuration directory:

 mkdir /var/portbuild/conf/arch

     * In that directory: create any dotunnel.* scripts needed.

     * Tell qmanager about the arch:

 python /var/portbuild/evil/qmanager/qclient add_acl name=ports-arch uidlist=ports-arch gidlist=portmgr sense=1

     * (Only necessary for old codebase): Edit
       /var/portbuild/scripts/buildenv.

     * Add the arch directory to /var/portbuild/scripts/zbackup and
       /var/portbuild/scripts/zexpire.

     * (Only necessary for old codebase): As with the procedure for
       creating a new branch: in the /var/portbuild/errorlogs/
       directory, create links for the webserver:

 ln -s ../arch/branch/builds/latest/bak/errors arch-branch-full
 ln -s ../arch/branch/builds/latest/bak/logs arch-branch-full-logs
 ln -s ../arch/branch/builds/latest/errors arch-branch-latest
 ln -s ../arch/branch/builds/latest/logs arch-branch-latest-logs
 ln -s ../arch/branch/builds/latest/bak/packages arch-branch-packages-full
 ln -s ../arch/branch/builds/latest/packages arch-branch-packages-latest

     * (Only necessary for old codebase): In that directory, create
       two more links for the webserver:

 ln -s ../arch/archive/buildlogs arch-buildlogs
 ln -s ../arch/archive/errorlogs arch-errorlogs

     * For each branch that will be supported, do the following:

          * Kick-start the build for the branch with

 build create arch branch

          * Create bindist.tar.

     * (Only necessary for old codebase): Only after the first time a
       dopackages has been run for the arch: add the arch to
       /var/portbuild/scripts/dopackagestats.

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17 How to configure a new head node (pointyhat instance)

   This section is in progress.

   Please talk to Mark Linimon before making any changes.

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  17.1 Basic installation

    1. Install FreeBSD.

    2. For each supported arch, add a ports-${arch} user and group.
       Add them to the wheel group. They should have the '*'
       password. Also, similarly, create the ports and portmgr users.

    3. For each supported arch, create /home/ports-${arch}/.ssh/ and
       populate authorized_keys.

    4. Create the appropriate files in /etc/.ssh/.

    5. Add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf:

 kern.maxfiles=40000

    6. TBA

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  17.2 Configuring the disk

    1. Create a zfs volume named a and mount it on /a.

    2. Create a zfs volume named a/portbuild and mount it on
       /a/portbuild.

    3. # mkdir -p /a/portbuild
 # cd /a/portbuild
 #
 # chmod 775 .

    4. TBA

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  17.3 Configuring src

    1. TBA

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  17.4 Configuring ports

    1. The following ports are required:

 archivers/xz
 archivers/unzip
 databases/py-pysqlite23
 databases/py-sqlalchemy
 devel/git (WITH_SVN)
 devel/py-configobj
 devel/py-setuptools
 devel/subversion-freebsd
 mail/postfix
 net/nc
 net/rsync
 security/sudo
 sysutils/ganglia-monitor-core (with GMETAD off)
 sysutils/ganglia-webfrontend (WITHOUT_X11)
 www/apache22 (with EXT_FILTER and THREADS)

       The following ports are suggested:

 benchmarks/bonnie++
 devel/ccache
 net/isc-dhcp41-server
 ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves
 ports-mgmt/pkg_tree
 ports-mgmt/portaudit
 ports-mgmt/portmaster
 shells/bash
 shells/zsh
 sysutils/screen
 sysutils/smartmontools

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  17.5 Other

    1. TBA

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18 Procedures for dealing with disk failures

   When a machine has a disk failure (e.g. panics due to read errors,
   etc), then we should do the following steps:

     * Note the time and failure mode (e.g. paste in the relevant
       console output) in /var/portbuild/${arch}/reboots

     * For i386 gohan clients, scrub the disk by touching /SCRUB in
       the nfsroot (e.g. /a/nfs/8.dir1/SCRUB) and rebooting. This
       will dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 and force the drive to remap
       any bad sectors it finds, if it has enough spares left. This
       is a temporary measure to extend the lifetime of a drive that
       is on the way out.

         Note: For the i386 blade systems another signal of a failing
         disk seems to be that the blade will completely hang and be
         unresponsive to either console break, or even NMI.

       For other build systems that don't newfs their disk at boot
       (e.g. amd64 systems) this step has to be skipped.

     * If the problem recurs, then the disk is probably toast. Take
       the machine out of mlist and (for ata disks) run smartctl on
       the drive:

 smartctl -t long /dev/ad0

       It will take about 1/2 hour:

 gohan51# smartctl -t long /dev/ad0
 smartctl version 5.38 [i386-portbld-freebsd8.0] Copyright (C) 2002-8
 Bruce Allen
 Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

 === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
 Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode".
 Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful.
 Testing has begun.
 Please wait 31 minutes for test to complete.
 Test will complete after Fri Jul  4 03:59:56 2008

 Use smartctl -X to abort test.

       Then smartctl -a /dev/ad0 shows the status after it finishes:

 # SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
 # Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining
 LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
 #   1  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       80%     15252    319286

       It will also display other data including a log of previous
       drive errors. It is possible for the drive to show previous
       DMA errors without failing the self-test though (because of
       sector remapping).

   When a disk has failed, please inform the cluster administrators
   so we can try to get it replaced.

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