Filer pkg bugs
-
I know Filer is an old and rarely-used package, but it's one I recently started depending on. I really like having my custom scripts backed up as part of the
config.xmlI was wondering:
- Is the Filer package still maintained?
- I found a bug or two- should they go to redmine, github, here on forum, or
/dev/null? - Are PRs accepted? I wanted to add a "Read and update files from disk" button that overwrites the XML saved in Filer with the current contents of the files on disk.
-
-
@luckman212 said in Filer pkg bugs:
Is the Filer package still maintained?
It certainly looks like it's actively maintained:
commit 558a2f1f17b1c0ff60f7bc98296bcd41b1997e2d Author: Marcos Mendoza <mmendoza@netgate.com> Date: Thu Oct 30 14:39:54 2025 -0600 sysutils/pfSense-pkg-filer: log_error() is deprecated, use logger() commit 01a02dd31a46125ef9f9ada0011b5d0a2bd68a86 Author: Marcos Mendoza <mmendoza@netgate.com> Date: Fri Jun 13 15:58:02 2025 -0600 sysutils/pfSense-pkg-filer: bump version commit d675375fea06863576a66e5de4c135183c6f6058 Author: Marcos Mendoza <mmendoza@netgate.com> Date: Fri May 30 15:54:17 2025 -0600 sysutils/pfSense-pkg-filer: use the XMLRPC plugins for HA sync. Implement #16231 commit a4ac863b0b0e9a30bfeb47c887fbfe595efe147b Author: Luiz Souza <luiz@netgate.com> Date: Tue Jan 7 11:46:29 2025 -0300 Bump up the Copyright year. commit f008c8ca14a0c59c35a710cf0c92c3843ccc53a1 Author: Marcos Mendoza <mmendoza@netgate.com> Date: Mon May 6 18:59:19 2024 -0600 sysutils/pfSense-pkg-filer: move to config accessors commit 8e9797ae55dd415e442c10cb0b3ee57638064df3 Author: Luiz Otavio O Souza <luiz@netgate.com> Date: Fri Feb 23 02:54:40 2024 -0300 Update the years in the Copyright notice of all the Netgate files. commit 93fb96db595557b3875b866008d544bb6e2a9399 Author: Christopher Cope <ccope@netgate.com> Date: Sat Jul 15 20:36:31 2023 -0400 sysutils/pfSense-pkg-filer: Update function name. Fixes #14553 commit 3c5dd718f5947beffa173aa72c3f72478af9fbea Author: Reid Linnemann <rlinnemann@netgate.com> Date: Thu Feb 9 09:33:11 2023 -0700 Update Netgate copyright years to include 2023 commit 7e93665197f342d2a585b1a3c9dcf0afdfab21e4 Author: R. Christian McDonald <rcmcdonald91@gmail.com> Date: Thu Sep 15 12:41:21 2022 -0400 Update sysutils/pfSense-pkg-Filer PHP81. For #13446 -
@luckman212 said in Filer pkg bugs:
found a bug or two
Is one of them the fact that it eats the last newline in the file?
-
@dennypage I did notice that but didn't quite consider it a "bug", more of a nuance. Regardless, it should probably not eat whitespace anywhere.
-
-
FWIW, if the bugs end up frustrating you, you can also use system patches to essentially store files in the config. I do that for /conf/ntp-boot-time-servers and /boot/loader.conf.local. You have to set the patches as non auto-apply though.
-
@dennypage Hmm - interesting overload usage there! Definitely never would have thought of that. Does it work for creating new files too? Or only modifying existing ones? Another good thing about Filer is that it supports setting file mode bits eg to make scripts executable etc.
-
@luckman212 said in Filer pkg bugs:
@dennypage Hmm - interesting overload usage there! Definitely never would have thought of that. Does it work for creating new files too?
Yes, it works for creating files. In fact, that’s why you have to mark them as non auto apply—if you don’t, it keeps prepending another copy of the text each time an apply happens.
Edit: Back in front of a computer... Here are the patches I mentioned from my system:
--- /conf/ntp-boot-time-servers 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800 +++ /conf/ntp-boot-time-servers 2022-02-15 15:29:29.980757000 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +192.168.230.32 192.168.230.33 192.168.230.34--- /boot/loader.conf.local.org 2024-04-23 08:00:00.000000000 -0700 +++ /boot/loader.conf.local 2024-04-23 08:00:00.000000000 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +hint.mmcsd.0.disabled="1" +legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1
