On 2026/09/21 16:06, Stuart Lamble wrote: > - Shutting down. Per Stuart Henderson's comments a couple of weeks ago, I > have tested to see what happens. If I initiate the shutdown fairly soon after > the server starts, it shuts down cleanly, no problem. If I wait a little bit, > it seems to sit there. For my purposes, this is good enough, but it's not > really acceptable for general release. (Logging is fine.)
that's better than it was when I last tried updating things - it was sitting there even when shutdown soon after start. > - /var/lib vs /var/db (per Antoine's comments.) It looks like Kea is now > putting everything into /usr/local/var/db/kea. I'm not sure if that would be > considered acceptable or not. (It looks wrong, but isn't seriously offensive > to me in the way that putting it in, say, /etc would be.) > - Currently, configuration files are looked for in /usr/local/etc/kea by > default. This only really affects keactrl; the keactrl config file can easily > point at different locations for the actual DHCP server configuration. > - Runtime sockets currently have to go into /usr/local/var/run/kea. those are both wrong for OpenBSD, but probably quite easily fixable. > Other than all of this, it's working fine in my environment. The obvious > workarounds to the above concerns are acceptable for my use case, but I need > a bit of feedback/guidance on whether they should be corrected. If they > should be, I'll continue working on it to try to sort out those remaining > issues. (The shutting down issue likely will need some fairly deep debugging > to try to figure out where it's hanging.) > > As I've previously said, I'm more than happy to provide the patches (there > are significant updates to the port Makefile, as well as the patches to the > source code proper - among other things, Kea now uses meson to build, not > autoconf) to anybody who wants it, along with the log4cplus patch. seems like it might be a good point to send out the diff?
