From: Claudio Jeker <cjeker@diehard.n-r-g.com>
Subject: Re: Update: prometheus to 3.5.1
To: Alvar Penning <post@0x21.biz>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:41:55 +0200

On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 11:32:55PM +0100, Alvar Penning wrote:
> On Wed Mar 25, 2026 at 9:13 PM CET, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> > Diff below should be better.
> 
> Thanks a lot for this diff! I have tested it and deployed it on my
> Prometheus metrics server. The Go diff looks good on first glance.
> 
> Since I had an unfinished prototype of the same update lying around for
> months, I took the opportunity to add something to your diff. My diff on
> top of your diff is attached gzipped, as the new distinfo and
> modules.inc files are ridiculously large.
> 
> In a nutshell, there are the following changes:
> 
> - Getting rid of the vendored archive, which is hosted on a server of
>   yours by replacing it with go-module(5). Now, a modules.inc file lists
>   all the Go dependencies. Got the inspiration from databases/influxdb.
> - Use Bash as the shell for scripts/compress_assets.sh, as it uses
>   Bashisms and reports warnings during runtime otherwise.
> 
> I am now running my patched version of your diff on my Prometheus server
> and have not experienced any issues so far. Please consider my change,
> as itmakes it making it easier for other people to upgrade Prometheus as
> there is no longer another host involved for the distfiles.

I will look into that once my update is in. It may be a good idea to
switch to go-module(5) since the vendor bits are indeed a pain. It takes
me multiple tries to generate a good file.

-- 
:wq Claudio