Re: fail2ban missing as earmv6hf package

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello Greg

El jue, 6 jun 2024 a las 13:46, Greg Troxel (<gdt%lexort.com@localhost>) escribió:
>
> Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > I just what to understand how  pkgsrc works.
>
> That's a really lengthy question :-)


Thanks so much for answering.

>
> > 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.

Symbolic link now is pointing to 2024Q1 as I see under an ftp session
on elinks. Indeed  2024Q1 is the version in which fail2ban disappears.

If I download 2023Q4:

netbsd-raspaZeroW$ wget
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv6hf/10.0_2023Q4/All/pkg_summary.gz

netbsd-raspaZeroW$ gunzip pkg_summary.gz

netbsd-raspaZeroW$ cat pkg_summary |grep fail2ban
PKGNAME=fail2ban-1.0.2nb2
HOMEPAGE=http://www.fail2ban.org/
PKGPATH=security/fail2ban
FILE_NAME=fail2ban-1.0.2nb2.tgz
DESCRIPTION=http://www.fail2ban.org/

So I think fail2ban disappeard in 2024Q1.

>
> > 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.

Oh, I know...
>
> > 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!
>

I was lucky.

> > 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.

Thanks, I will look for the build logs.

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

But if it builds on my system why did it disappear?

Thankg Greg.
Regards.

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