From: "Kirill Bychkov" <kirby@linklevel.net>
Subject: Re: should we keep net/go-ipfs in ports?
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 13:02:35 +0300

On Fri, May 30, 2025 00:19, Kirill Bychkov wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2025 21:10, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
> Thanks for comments!
> Patch with a fixed README. Now using "env" for doas and switched from
> su -l -s .... to the same doas construction as stated in "Usage" srction.
>

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