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Phil Phillips Rank: White Belt
Phil Phillips
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Apr 20, 2011 2:22 PM

FreeBSD Port

Hey all,

 

I'm in the process of creating a FreeBSD port of zenoss.  I have it building and installing fine... however ... when you "build" zenoss, it also installs the software.

 

FreeBSD ports generally separate the build and install steps.  The port I have created is unconventional since it uses the zenoss build scripts and does the build and install in the same step.

 

Is there an easy way to separate the build and install?

 

Thanks.

  • caseyh Rank: White Belt
    caseyh
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    1. Apr 20, 2011 4:39 PM (in response to Phil Phillips)
    Re: FreeBSD Port

    Back with Zenoss 2.8 I looked into creating a FreeBSD port but never got around to doing it. What I had planned on doing was having make config ask for all the options the install.sh ask for and ditching the install.sh all together.

  • Phil Phillips Rank: White Belt
    Phil Phillips
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    2. Apr 21, 2011 2:47 PM (in response to caseyh)
    Re: FreeBSD Port

    I thought that may be the case...  an unconventional port isn't a big deal, but I'd like to get it to conform to standards, if possible.

     

    BTW, your initial documentation on getting Zenoss to build on FreeBSD was very helpful for me.  A lof of that stuff still applied to version 3.  Thanks .

  • Phil Phillips Rank: White Belt
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    3. Apr 26, 2011 12:20 AM (in response to Phil Phillips)
    Re: FreeBSD Port

    PR to add Zenoss port to FreeBSD ports tree:  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/156655

     

    Anyone is more than welcome to test out the port.  The only bit I can't get to run is 'zentrap'... but I think this is a good start for now.

  • caseyh Rank: White Belt
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    4. Aug 10, 2011 12:05 AM (in response to Phil Phillips)
    Re: FreeBSD Port

    I tried out the port the other day and could not get zenoss to run. I am going to try again today with a fresh install of FreeBSD. I will post my results.

  • Phil Phillips Rank: White Belt
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    5. Aug 10, 2011 12:34 PM (in response to caseyh)
    Re: FreeBSD Port

    Thanks for trying it out .

     

    I've recieved some reports of the port not working (it works on some systems and not on others...).  I've been able to reproduce the problem on a VM.  I think it has to do with locking issues related to:  /usr/local/zenoss/var/Data.fs.lock

     

    (After running the supplied init command, take a look at /usr/local/zenoss/init/zenbuild.log)

  • caseyh Rank: White Belt
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    6. Aug 11, 2011 3:46 AM (in response to Phil Phillips)
    Re: FreeBSD Port

    zc.lockfile.LockError: Couldn't lock '/usr/local/zenoss/var/Data.fs.lock seems to be the issue. Is there a fix? I tried deleting everything in /usr/local/zenoss/var/ and then running "service zenoss init" and it works but then when I do "service zenoss start"; zenhub, zenjobs, and zentrap do not come up. If I run "service zenoss restart" everything comes up except zopectl

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