> On Oct 3, 2026, at 5:14 AM, Dick Groskamp <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 2026/09/24 18:21:37 Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
>> From what I see, OpenGrok indexing is very quick, even on my 10 year old PC
>> with 16 GB RAM. And we could trigger it less often, eg. daily.
>>
>> It isn't only C++ that OpenGrok indexes, but many other languages. I used
>> it to search for the "portable" PKGFORMAT, and tried to understand how it
>> is processed and what it means, which involved Perl code.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> i am sorry. I did not care much about the server. One of the first
>>> things i depriorized.
>>>
>>> And it seems that the server does not have the CPU power to deal with
>>> the re-indexing that is triggered all the time because we really moving
>>> now.
>>>
>>> I have added a language server Protocol tool to bazel-migration. it
>>> produces an xml file which resolves the uno calls in our code.
>>>
>>> Sadly the C++ resolution does not work on my experimental IDE (i tried
>>> lapce). But if i create maybe one that can do this too, there is no need
>>> for opengrok at all?
>>>
>>> Am 24.09.2026 um 15:26 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I've lost hope in http://opengrok.openoffice.org/ working when I need
>>> it,
>>>> and got OpenGrok running on my PC instead.
>>>>
>>>> Also recently FreeBSD finally got Podman working, which now supports
>>>> FreeBSD upstream, is compatible with Docker images, and able to run Linux
>>>> Docker containers at full performance using its Linux compatibility layer
>>>> :-).
>>>>
>>>> After some exploration, I got it working quite easily:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Make these directories:
>>>> /opt/opengrok/data - empty
>>>> /opt/opengrok/etc - empty
>>>> /opt/opengrok/openoffice-git - clean working tree with the branch you
>>> want
>>>> (eg. trunk) checked out
>>>>
>>>> 2. Copy the XML below and paste it as
>>>> /opt/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml. It was derived from
>>>> images/opengrok/opengrok_custom_config.xml in
>>>> https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice-devtools.git but changed
>>> to
>>>> use 4 spaces per tab (in a way that works):
>>>>
>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>>> <java version="1.8.0_121" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
>>>> <object class="org.opengrok.indexer.configuration.Configuration"
>>>> id="Configuration0">
>>>> <void property="projects">
>>>> <void method="put">
>>>> <string>openoffice-git</string>
>>>> <object class="org.opengrok.indexer.configuration.Project">
>>>> <void property="name">
>>>> <string>openoffice-git</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void property="path">
>>>> <string>/openoffice-git</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void property="tabSize">
>>>> <int>4</int>
>>>> </void>
>>>> </object>
>>>> </void>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void id="IgnoredNames0" property="ignoredNames">
>>>> <void id="IgnoredFiles0" property="ignoredFiles">
>>>> <void property="items">
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.log</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.tmp</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.xls</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.jpg</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.ods</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.otp</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.ods</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.odt</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.zip</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.txt</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> </void>
>>>> </void>
>>>> </void>
>>>> </object>
>>>> </java>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 3. podman run \
>>>> --name opengrok-aoo \
>>>> -d \
>>>> --restart=unless-stopped \
>>>> -v
>>>>
>>> /opt/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml:/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml
>>>> \
>>>> -v /opt/opengrok/openoffice-git:/opengrok/src/openoffice-git \
>>>> -v /opt/opengrok/data:/opengrok/data \
>>>> -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
>>>> -e READONLY_CONFIG_FILE=/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml \
>>>> -e SYNC_PERIOD_MINUTES=0 \
>>>> -e NOMIRROR=1 \
>>>> --network=host \
>>>> docker.io/opengrok/docker:latest
>>>>
>>>> On FreeBSD you also need:
>>>> --os linux
>>>> -v /compat/linux/proc:/proc
>>>> to enable Linux compatibility, and mount linprocfs from the host's
>>>> /compat/linux/proc to the container's /proc.
>>>>
>>>> Note how:
>>>> - you can replace "podman" with "docker", they use the same command line
>>>> options.
>>>> - mounting into /opengrok/data persists data across restarts.
>>>> - mounting /etc/localtime is for timezone.
>>>> - I needed "--network=host" but "-p 8080:8080" should also work, still
>>>> investigating.
>>>> - the syncing and mirroring could also be left on.
>>>> - podman wants the full URL docker.io/opengrok/docker:latest instead of
>>>> opengrok/docker:latest, it's also more secure that way.
>>>> - you can monitor logs with "podman logs -f opengrok-aoo".
>>>>
>>>> It works remarkably well and requires no further setup, just visit
>>>> http://localhost:8080 and start using it :-). The project will only
>>> become
>>>> visible after indexing finishes, which took about 15 minutes after first
>>>> start for me.
>>>>
>>>> If it takes a long time to start indexing, that's because it uselessly
>>>> tries to contact a Perforce server (
>>>> https://github.com/oracle/opengrok/discussions/4572). It's possible to
>>>> shell into the container and uninstall the Perforce apt packages to skip
>>>> that, as described on that bug report.
>>>>
>>>> Don't use your main working tree because it will index binaries and
>>>> generated files, and chown all your files to user:group 1111:1111. Use a
>>>> separate, clean working tree, with no generated files.
>>>>
>>>> It's also MUCH faster locally :-), due to shorter round-trip times.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Damjan
>>>>
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>> Just set it up on my Win11. It works :-)
> Used the excellent explaining from William Leara
> <url>https://www.basicinputoutput.com/2024/04/opengrok-your-way-to-success.html</url>
> and managed to get through it
> (mind you I'm no technician at all)
>
> Only thing I ran into was that openGrok doesn't (yet) support Tomcat 11!
> Found that out after two days of trying.
> Installed Tomcat 10 and ran like clockwork.
If you wish to help manage a VM then we can guide you on how to get the proper
permissions in place.
Best,
Dave
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