From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: should we keep net/go-ipfs in ports?
To: Kirill Bychkov <kirby@linklevel.net>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 19:10:51 +0100

On 2025/05/29 14:26, Kirill Bychkov wrote:
> On Wed, February 19, 2025 14:01, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2025/02/19 04:48, Lydia Sobot wrote:
> >> >I've noticed that official binaries for OpenBSD are available from
> >> >upstream as you can see here
> >> >https://docs.ipfs.tech/install/command-line/#install-official-binary-distributions.
> >> >Also those are a newer version than the one we have in ports and they
> >> >offer ipfs-cluster OpenBSD binaries as well, which we don't have in
> >> >ports.
> >> They don't have ARM64 binaries for *BSD, so purely personally I feel like
> >> maybe just updating the port might be better, and maybe adding the cluster
> >> binaries
> >> However, shouldn't this port be renamed to kubo?
> >
> > the package was renamed to kubo in 2022, and packages rather than ports
> > are the main user-facing interface for installing it. moving the port to
> > a different dir loses cvs history so we don't usually bother. (I note
> > that upstream hasn't renamed the binary either).
> >
> > there doesn't seem to have been much interest in this software on
> > ports@. and it does seem like something where providing an old version
> > is a bit of a disservice to users. many of the updates to this port
> > have only been prompted by reports of it being broken. perhaps it
> > would be better to remove if there's not an active maintainer.
> >
> > $ make test
> > No regression tests for kubo-0.33.2
> >
> > cheat sheet for updating most go ports: bump MODGO_VERSION,
> > "make modgo-gen-modules > tmp; mv tmp modules.inc; make makesum"
> >
> >
> Hi,
> Here is the patch to update kubo to latest version (0.35.0) with small
> tweak in README.
> Works fine for me. OK to commit?

: $ IPFS_PATH=${LOCALSTATEDIR}/kubo doas -u _go-ipfs ${LOCALBASE}/bin/ipfs add /tmp/hello.txt

doas doesn't preserve variables by default; rather than explaining
about keepenv it would be preferable to pass it via env, e.g.

$ doas -u _go-ips env IPFS_PATH=${LOCALSTATEDIR}/kubo ${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/ipfs \
	add /tmp/hello.txt

(note it should be TRUEPREFIX i.e. "path where this port installs" not
LOCALBASE).

or /usr/local/bin is in the default path, so this is probably good
enough:

$ doas -u _go-ips env IPFS_PATH=/var/kubo ipfs add /tmp/hello.txt