On 2022-04-01, Eric Thomas <e...@ericthomas.net> wrote:
> @Crystal
>
>> If you want to work with the ports tree, it's _much_ better to set up
>> DPB than just running 'make' in the various directories:
>
> Very cool blog! I def spent some time reading. The dpb method feels
> like a litttttle too advanced for me at this moment. I'm struggling to
> get this UniFi port built using the standard setup.
The only places I use dpb are 1) for bulk builds, i.e. building the
whole set of ports in one go, and 2) if I want to download all the
distfiles (source code to all the ports) if I want to run a search
over it all.
It's useful but I would not describe it as useful for what most people
need to do with the ports tree.
> @Stuart
>
> 1. I was able to restore a previous checkpoint (I'm in a virtual
> machine) where the port tree was freshly installed.
> 2. I ran `make install` in the correct directory ( thank you:
> `/usr/ports/net/unifi/6.2`) and piped the results to a log.txt file.
I really recommend using FETCH_PACKAGES so you aren't spending hours
building difficult-to-build ports needlessly, unifi itself cannot be
distributed as packages, but the other software which it requires aren't
a problem. i.e. this bit from my mail:
>> memory limits, you probably want to install those from packages instead
>> ("make FETCH_PACKAGES= install" should do that - the unifi port would
>> have displayed a hint about this when you ran "make").
> 3. I wish I could figure out how to get the dang log.txt file out of
> the OpenBSD VM (email?, USB thumbdrive?, other?) and into your hands!
the easiest options are based around connecting to the machine by ssh
e.g.
- ssh in, copy and paste from the terminal
- scp or sftp the file to another machine
> - Seems like an act of congress to setup external email. At least
> I can't find a simple example on the web
either use a mail client that can connect to your mail server directly,
or use something like this
https://blog.joelg.net/post/2020-09-20-setting-up-opensmtpd-with-an-external-relay/
if you need to use a From address that is something other than
<login_username>@<machine hostname> then it gets more complicated
> - It'll probably be easier for me to determine how to add USB
> drives to the VM (working on it)
> 4. I can't tell whether the `make install` worked or not
"pkg_info | grep unifi" will show some output if it is installed
