On 2026/09/24 18:21:37 Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> From what I see, OpenGrok indexing is very quick, even on my 10 year old PC
> with 16 GB RAM. And we could trigger it less often, eg. daily.
>
> It isn't only C++ that OpenGrok indexes, but many other languages. I used
> it to search for the "portable" PKGFORMAT, and tried to understand how it
> is processed and what it means, which involved Perl code.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > i am sorry. I did not care much about the server. One of the first
> > things i depriorized.
> >
> > And it seems that the server does not have the CPU power to deal with
> > the re-indexing that is triggered all the time because we really moving
> > now.
> >
> > I have added a language server Protocol tool to bazel-migration. it
> > produces an xml file which resolves the uno calls in our code.
> >
> > Sadly the C++ resolution does not work on my experimental IDE (i tried
> > lapce). But if i create maybe one that can do this too, there is no need
> > for opengrok at all?
> >
> > Am 24.09.2026 um 15:26 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I've lost hope in http://opengrok.openoffice.org/ working when I need
> > it,
> > > and got OpenGrok running on my PC instead.
> > >
> > > Also recently FreeBSD finally got Podman working, which now supports
> > > FreeBSD upstream, is compatible with Docker images, and able to run Linux
> > > Docker containers at full performance using its Linux compatibility layer
> > > :-).
> > >
> > > After some exploration, I got it working quite easily:
> > >
> > > 1. Make these directories:
> > > /opt/opengrok/data - empty
> > > /opt/opengrok/etc - empty
> > > /opt/opengrok/openoffice-git - clean working tree with the branch you
> > want
> > > (eg. trunk) checked out
> > >
> > > 2. Copy the XML below and paste it as
> > > /opt/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml. It was derived from
> > > images/opengrok/opengrok_custom_config.xml in
> > > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice-devtools.git but changed
> > to
> > > use 4 spaces per tab (in a way that works):
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > <java version="1.8.0_121" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
> > > <object class="org.opengrok.indexer.configuration.Configuration"
> > > id="Configuration0">
> > > <void property="projects">
> > > <void method="put">
> > > <string>openoffice-git</string>
> > > <object class="org.opengrok.indexer.configuration.Project">
> > > <void property="name">
> > > <string>openoffice-git</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void property="path">
> > > <string>/openoffice-git</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void property="tabSize">
> > > <int>4</int>
> > > </void>
> > > </object>
> > > </void>
> > > </void>
> > > <void id="IgnoredNames0" property="ignoredNames">
> > > <void id="IgnoredFiles0" property="ignoredFiles">
> > > <void property="items">
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.log</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.tmp</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.xls</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.jpg</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.ods</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.otp</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.ods</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.odt</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.zip</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.txt</string>
> > > </void>
> > > </void>
> > > </void>
> > > </void>
> > > </object>
> > > </java>
> > >
> > >
> > > 3. podman run \
> > > --name opengrok-aoo \
> > > -d \
> > > --restart=unless-stopped \
> > > -v
> > >
> > /opt/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml:/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml
> > > \
> > > -v /opt/opengrok/openoffice-git:/opengrok/src/openoffice-git \
> > > -v /opt/opengrok/data:/opengrok/data \
> > > -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
> > > -e READONLY_CONFIG_FILE=/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml \
> > > -e SYNC_PERIOD_MINUTES=0 \
> > > -e NOMIRROR=1 \
> > > --network=host \
> > > docker.io/opengrok/docker:latest
> > >
> > > On FreeBSD you also need:
> > > --os linux
> > > -v /compat/linux/proc:/proc
> > > to enable Linux compatibility, and mount linprocfs from the host's
> > > /compat/linux/proc to the container's /proc.
> > >
> > > Note how:
> > > - you can replace "podman" with "docker", they use the same command line
> > > options.
> > > - mounting into /opengrok/data persists data across restarts.
> > > - mounting /etc/localtime is for timezone.
> > > - I needed "--network=host" but "-p 8080:8080" should also work, still
> > > investigating.
> > > - the syncing and mirroring could also be left on.
> > > - podman wants the full URL docker.io/opengrok/docker:latest instead of
> > > opengrok/docker:latest, it's also more secure that way.
> > > - you can monitor logs with "podman logs -f opengrok-aoo".
> > >
> > > It works remarkably well and requires no further setup, just visit
> > > http://localhost:8080 and start using it :-). The project will only
> > become
> > > visible after indexing finishes, which took about 15 minutes after first
> > > start for me.
> > >
> > > If it takes a long time to start indexing, that's because it uselessly
> > > tries to contact a Perforce server (
> > > https://github.com/oracle/opengrok/discussions/4572). It's possible to
> > > shell into the container and uninstall the Perforce apt packages to skip
> > > that, as described on that bug report.
> > >
> > > Don't use your main working tree because it will index binaries and
> > > generated files, and chown all your files to user:group 1111:1111. Use a
> > > separate, clean working tree, with no generated files.
> > >
> > > It's also MUCH faster locally :-), due to shorter round-trip times.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Damjan
> > >
> >
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> Just set it up on my Win11. It works :-)
Used the excellent explaining from William Leara
<url>https://www.basicinputoutput.com/2024/04/opengrok-your-way-to-success.html</url>
and managed to get through it
(mind you I'm no technician at all)
Only thing I ran into was that openGrok doesn't (yet) support Tomcat 11!
Found that out after two days of trying.
Installed Tomcat 10 and ran like clockwork.
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