Re: fail2ban missing as earmv6hf package

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> I just what to understand how  pkgsrc works.

That's a really lengthy question :-)

> I wanted to install fail2ban package in my RPiZeroW system but it
> seems not be be present as package:
>
> netbsd-raspaZeroW# pkgin se fail2ban
> No results found for fail2ban

pkgsrc has control files per package and infrastructure files under mk/.
For lots of reasons, some things build on some platforms, and some
don't.

> netbsd-raspaZeroW# cat /usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf
> https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv6hf/10.0/All

10.0 is a symlink on the server.  At times people have been unwilling to
update the symlinks to point to newer builds.  You may wish to look at
the explicit 10.0_2024Q1 directories.

> I download manually pkg_summary.gz just to check:
>
> netbsd-raspaZeroW$ wget
> https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv6hf/10.0/All/pkg_summary.gz
>
> netbsd-raspaZeroW$ gunzip pkg_summary.gz
>
> netbsd-raspaZeroW$ cat pkg_summary |grep fail2ban
> netbsd-raspaZeroW$
>
> There is no package on the summary.

In general, any particualr package being missing from a binary package
set is not really that surprising.  earmv6 is becoming a bit crufty as
it is basically for the 1 and 0.  I suspect fairly few people, perhaps
0, are spending time digging in.  But of course this is open source and
it's all available and anyone who wants to can.

> If I get the pkgsrc source tree:
>
> netbsd-raspaZeroW$ cat /usr/pkgsrc/CVS/Tag
> Tpkgsrc-2024Q1
>
> There is source for fail2ban

sure.  that doesn't vanish if it fails to build, at least right away.

> netbsd-raspaZeroW$ ls -lh /usr/pkgsrc/security/fail2ban/
> total 41K
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512B May 31 17:39 CVS
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  268B Feb  9  2015 DESCR
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  8.1K Nov 14  2023 Makefile
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   29K Jul  2  2023 PLIST
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  430B Jul  2  2023 distinfo
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  512B May 31 15:54 files
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  269B Feb  9  2015 options.mk
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  512B May 31 15:54 patches
> drwxr-xr-x  18 root  wheel  1.5K May 31 22:31 work
> netbsd-raspaZeroW$
>
> I compiled it and installed with no problems:
>
> netbsd-raspaZeroW$ pkgin list | grep ban
> fail2ban-1.0.2nb2    Scans log files and bans IP that makes too many
> password failures
>
> fail2ban works fine.

That's a great success story.  I was getting ready to tell you to do that!

> My question is. Why fail2ban is not ready as package? it is a matter
> of waiting for it to appear?

You'd have to look at the bulk build logs.  I just looked on my saved
data from pkgsrc-bulk and I don't see it.  We are not really organized
about having them linked from the binary package sets.

I'd say it is unlikely that it will appear, at this point.  But I don't
know.