On 2026/10/03 16:51:01 Dave Fisher wrote:
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> > 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
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>
> Best,
> Dave
>
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Thanks for the offer, but that is out of my league.
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