Making changes to haproxy package; how do I make them available to everyone?

stephenw10

Do you really need to support 1.2.3 anymore?

Steve

Briantist

Do you really need to support 1.2.3 anymore?

Steve

Well, I don't care about it too much. I still support some systems running it that can't be upgraded yet, but I don't plan on running HAProxy on them.

That being said, HAProxy currently does run on 1.2.3, and nothing I've changed prevents that. We only need an updated binary. I think I might just create the VMs for the other versions of FreeBSD and compile them myself if no one else wants to step up. Apparently pfSense 2.0.1 is coming out soon and will use FreeBSD 9? Maybe I'll do that one too.

I would really love some help on how to get all this back to the community though.

marcelloc

I can help. I will configure these vms and compile it.

If all you done was just fixes, i can publish it for you.
But you can create an account at Github and Pull your update request.

2.0.1 uses the same freebsd version 8.1

Briantist

@marcelloc:

I can help. I will configure these vms and compile it.

If all you done was just fixes, i can publish it for you.
But you can create an account at Github and Pull your update request.

2.0.1 uses the same freebsd version 8.1

Thanks marcelloc, you've been very helpful to me throughout this whole process. I wrote out everything that was changed. As you can see there are fixes as well as new features, but I believe that someone who upgrades from the current package to this new one will not see any issue. I can also post the actual code changes if you want to go over them in detail before publishing.

I have created a free account at github but I don't know what to do from there. I don't know what it means to pull my update request. Sorry for my ignorance on that! :)

Briantist

Okay I've asked my manager about it as he's more familiar with git and github so I have an idea of what I need to do with that. I'll work on it and I'll post again once I'm done or when I have more questions. Thanks!

marcelloc

the repo for packages is https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense-packages

marcelloc

the ftp-archive has 1.4.x haproxy packager version. Test if any of these versions works on your pfsense

amd64 (tested with no issues)
(8.1 packages)
pkg_add -r http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/amd64/packages-8.1-release/All/haproxy-1.4.8.tbz
(8.2 packages)
pkg_add -r http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/amd64/packages-8.2-release/All/haproxy-1.4.10.tbz
(8-stable packages)
pkg_add -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/All/haproxy-1.4.16.tbz

I386
(8.1 packages)
pkg_add -r http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/All/haproxy-1.4.8.tbz
(8.2 packages)
pkg_add -r http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.2-release/All/haproxy-1.4.10.tbz
(8-stable packages)
pkg_add -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/All/haproxy-1.4.16.tbz

for 1.2.3 version(need test)
http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-7.4-release/All/haproxy-1.4.10.tbz

Briantist

We did try 1.4.16 but there was something about it that didn't work correctly with RPC/MAPI (we're load balancing Exchange 2010). Whatever it was, it worked when we used 1.4.18 without any changes to the config.

marcelloc

ok, I will build it from ports.

Briantist

Okay, I've created the github repo:
https://github.com/briantist/pfSense-Packages

Please let me know if I've done something wrong with it or whatever. What should I do next? I see a pull request option in my repo, but when I click it I don't really understand what it's asking.

marcelloc

Using the gui, browse https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense-packages and find file you want to change, click edit this file.

After this, github will clone pfsense-package and allow you edit the file and pull file change request.

Briantist

@marcelloc:

Using the gui, browse https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense-packages and find file you want to change, click edit this file.

After this, github will clone pfsense-package and allow you edit the file and pull file change request.

When you say "the gui" do you just mean to browse that URL in a browser? When I go to one of the file that way, there is a button that says "fork and edit". Is that the one to click? Do I have to do this to every file individually?

Again, sorry for being so green. I really appreciate your patience.

marcelloc

yes, press fork and edit.
this way you get a clone from pfsense-packages.

Then you choose between edit each file individually or apply via git on your clone and then pull all file changes in a single request.

Briantist

Okay, I think I'm almost there:
https://github.com/briantist/pfsense-packages-1

I used to git to put all the changes up to this repo at once. I started to do the pull request but I got scared when it said that I was asking bsdperimeter to pull in 333 commits, most of which looked like they were from other people, so I thought maybe I was doing something wrong.

marcelloc

try to edit each file and see what happens.

Briantist

Should I be editing it on my fork, or in the main repo?

marcelloc

choose file on main repo. then fork and edit

Briantist

Okay I did it all one file at a time. There should be 6 new pull requests. I can't add the i386 folder under the binaries7 folder, nor the i386 and amd64 folders underneath binaries8 but they will need to be there.

If there's anything else I need to do please let me know. Thanks so much!

marcelloc

test compiled version

i386
http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/pfsense/8/All/haproxy-1.4.16.tbz

amd64
http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/pfsense/8/amd64/All/haproxy-1.4.16.tbz

Briantist

Version should be 1.4.18.. any reason why it can't be? As I said we tried 1.4.16 before, even tried it on a linux VM to see it was something platform specific.