PKGSRC on your Accelerator

PKGSRC on your Accelerator

pkgsrc is the official packaging system for Accelerators. All Accelerators deployed as of March 22 are built using pkgsrc, not Blastwave. Installation instructions below are for Accelerators that do not have pkgsrc installed. Previous Accelerators were built using Blastwave.

Introduction

Joyent customers need a set of pkgsrc packages that, you know, work without too much fuss. Configuration files should be installed, SMFs should be available, the appropriate symlinks should be made, etc. I've made available a set of pkgsrc files that have been customized for use on accelerators.

Joe is currently revising his set of pkgsrc packages and will update this page soon. You can see the list of packages at http://www.cannedsheep.com/pkgsrc/packages/All/

The git repository for changes to the pkgsrc source tree is at http://github.com/joevandyk/pkgsrc/tree/stable

Just installing the packages

Grab the pkgsrc tarballs and extract it to /opt as root.

su - 
cd /opt
wget http://static.tanga.com/uploaded_files/files/accelerator-pkgsrc.tar.gz
wget http://static.tanga.com/uploaded_files/files/accelerator-pkgsrc-install-skeleton.tar.gz
gtar zxf accelerator-pkgsrc.tar.gz
gtar zxf accelerator-pkgsrc-install-skeleton.tar.gz

“gtar zxf accelerator-pkgsrc.tar.gz” extracts into a directory “opt” within ”/opt”; this may be a temporary problem. If you find the files are dropped into /opt/opt/, move the tarball to the root and untar it from there:

mv accelerator-pkgsrc.tar.gz /
cd /
gtar zxf accelerator-pkgsrc.tar.gz

(This is an error in packing the tarball, and may be corrected on the next update. Try unpacking it as directed first, and only use this workaround if all packages are in /opt/opt/pkgsrc)

Add /opt/local/bin to your path.

Then install your packages.

/opt/local/sbin/pkg_add /opt/pkgsrc/packages/All/*

That's it. Enjoy. See the forum topic at http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?id=17568 for more information.

If you want to install other software, navigate to its directory and type 'bmake package'.

cd /opt/pkgsrc/benchmark/httperf
bmake package

This will configure, build, install, and package up the software. The package will end up in /opt/pkgsrc/packages/All. If you end up having to make changes, or you come up with a SMF or other cool configuration file for the package that would be useful to others, send an email to joe@tanga.com and I'll package it up for you. Or, you could use git (repository is at git://beavis.tanga.com/) and make the modifications to pkgsrc yourself, then submit a patch.

Modifying pkgsrc to make life easier for others

If you come across something that doesn't seem to build or install correctly, and you're the type of nerd that enjoys fixing stuff, perhaps you could join the development team for this pkgsrc/accelerator effort.

I'm sure there's an easier way to do this, feel free to modify these instructions.

Follow the above instructions and install git.

Then:

su -
cd /opt
rm -rf pkgsrc
git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com
git clone git://beavis.tanga.com/pkgsrc

Read up on git: http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html and http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html

If git://beavis.tanga.com seems down, email joe@tanga.com. Joyent's supposed to get me an accelerator just for doing this pkgsrc stuff on soon, so the address for the git/pkgsrc repository might change.