New Package: Filer

Briantist

I've created a new package called filer. I wrote a wiki page about it but it isn't linked from any pages yet (I couldn't figure out how to add it to the packages category).
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Filer_package

I plan to fill this out a little bit more but there isn't much more to the package.

I'll need some help getting the package live ahem marcello? ahem.

There are only 3 files.

Thanks!

Nachtfalke

Hi,

Sinup at https://github.com/bsdperimeter/
Go to pfsense packages and click "fork" https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense-packages
Here you can edit existing files and packages. Then click "pull request" an your changes will be send to pfsense-packages and someone of the core team will accept them or not

The pkg_config.8.xml and pkg_config.8.amd64.xml contain the information where your files are located, package name, version numer and so on. You have to enter your package there so that it appears in the pfsense Package Manager Menu.

The only way to upload file I know is:
a) Send to pfsense core team member and ask for upload
b) Follow this tutorial: http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/

I choose b).
I installed a VM with PC-BSD (you could use any BSD/Linux) and install "git".

Then:


This clones your fork to your PC:
git clone https://Nachtfalkeaw@github.com/Nachtfalkeaw/pfsense-packages.git

Then change to the folder "Git" created and do that:
git remote add upstream git://github.com/Nachtfalkeaw/pfsense-packages.git
git fetch upstream

Change your username and so on:
git config --global user.name "surname name"
git config --global user.email "nachtfalkeaw@web.de"
git config --global github.user Nachtfalke

Then create folders and copy there the files (.inc, .xml, .php) of your "filer" package to the place where it should be.
freeradius2 package for example is in /pfsense-packages/config/freeradius2/
You could create a folder /pfsense-packages/config/Filer/ and place there all your files.

Then add the files you put in to the repo.
git add FILNAME

After this do:
git commit -a

You can enter a comment there and you can see which files you have changed.

At least upload your files:
git push origin master

Then go to your github fork and you will see that you have uploaded files. No do a "Pull request" to the original pfsense-packages.

Thats the way I do it with NEW files because I do not know if the github.com page has a butto to upload files :(
If I just want to change/edit an existing file I am doing that directly on my fork I did on github.

Briantist

Thanks; I actually do have my own local repo already and a github account from the changes I made to the HAProxy package. For whatever reason the pull request thing did not work and I had to manually edit each file on github so that marcello could approve them. In this case though, since it's a new package I can't go that route.

I guess I'll try to again to get the git pull thing working properly, as that's probably the best way to do it going forward, and I will be wanting to make more changes and new packages in the future.

marcelloc

Hi Briantist,

Good to see you on packages again :)

Try the way Nachtfalke show you and Tell me if you need help on this.

To include a file on your repo after git clone, just copy new files to It's new folder under config dir and then:

git add file1 file2 file3
git commit –author "yourlogin"
Include edit info
git push

Note that all packages stay under config dir with It's own folder.

cmb

I added the category to that page. Just need [[Category:Packages]] in the page.

Briantist

Okay cool, I was able to do it the right way with the git pull request and such.

I have a question though. Since I'm running my own repo, I have my pfSense boxes pointed at the repo, and in the config, I have to put my repo URL in order for me to pull the packages. Then when I go to make them public, I have to change them to point to the main pfSense repo. But if I want to make more changes I once again have to change all the URLs. Is there a better way to manage this?

marcelloc

you cant try to fake repo ip pointing to your local repo

Nachtfalke

@Briantist:

Okay cool, I was able to do it the right way with the git pull request and such.

I have a question though. Since I'm running my own repo, I have my pfSense boxes pointed at the repo, and in the config, I have to put my repo URL in order for me to pull the packages. Then when I go to make them public, I have to change them to point to the main pfSense repo. But if I want to make more changes I once again have to change all the URLs. Is there a better way to manage this?

I am only using the repo on my computer if I need to add new file(s). If I just want to edit some lines I do this in my favourite editor (Notepadd++) and after I finished coding I just copy and paste these using the GitHub page.
To see if my changes are working on pfSense I just copy all .XML and .INC files to /usr/local/pkg. That's all.

Briantist

@marcelloc:

you cant try to fake repo ip pointing to your local repo

Yeah I thought about doing that maybe.. redirecting www.pfsense.org to my repo. I suppose I could still get to the site through the .com. I figured I'd ask in case you guys had any better ideas.

I see that the pull request I did was merged, but when I actually try to load the packages on any of my installations, my package is not listed. Is there something else I have to do?

Nachtfalke

@Briantist:

@marcelloc:

you cant try to fake repo ip pointing to your local repo

Yeah I thought about doing that maybe.. redirecting www.pfsense.org to my repo. I suppose I could still get to the site through the .com. I figured I'd ask in case you guys had any better ideas.

I see that the pull request I did was merged, but when I actually try to load the packages on any of my installations, my package is not listed. Is there something else I have to do?

I think you don't have to.
I have similar "problems". I have updated freeradius2 package yesterday to pkg v1.4.3 but it still shows me v1.4.2 in pfsense Package Manager. But on github there are the updated files as far as I can see that. I had this problem on monday I think.

Then jimp wrote in another thread that there were problems with the repo and syncing…but not sure at all whats the problem now. :(

marcelloc

Briantist,

I made some improvements on filer package.

Field input check
Option to load an existing file instead of always writing contents to it
script option to run after file update/sync

Can you test these changes on your config before I publish it on github?

filer.inc.txt
filer.xml.txt
filer_sync.xml.txt

Briantist

marcello, I am facing a huge backlog of work right now, but I would love to test those changes. Do you mind waiting, maybe a week or so?

Thanks; these changes sound good.

marcelloc

I did a backup of first release.

I'll publish it and when you have time test it.

If you find any issues, just let me know.

Briantist

Okay that sounds fine; it will be easier for me to test it that way anyway.

Also a great add-on to firefox is called "It's All text!" It adds a little edit button to any text box on a web page and lets you "open" it in a text editor of your choice,t hen when you save the file it gets put back into the box. Helpful for editing shell scripts and such with syntax highlighting without having to work on a local file and then upload it again. It makes a great helper to filer!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/