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Helping Elixir mix releases become FreeBSD packages, since 2022.

Documentation: https://hexdocs.pm/freebsd

installation

Installation

You DO need elixir to build your release and package. You can install it with pkg install elixir.

You DO NOT need elixir to run your app, assuming your mix release configures include_erts: true (which is the default).

Add freebsd to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:freebsd, "~> 0.4.0", runtime: false}
  ]
end

1. mix freebsd.gen.pkg
2. Edit freebsd/*.eex as desired (particularly desc in freebsd/MANIFEST.eex
3. Add a freebsd key to mix.exs project config.

  def project do
    [
      # ExFreeBSD requires these standard keys:
      app: :freebsd,
      version: "0.4.0",
      description: description(),
      homepage_url: "https://github.com/patmaddox/ex_freebsd",
      # and adds this one:
      freebsd: freebsd()
    ]
  end

  defp freebsd do
    [
      maintainer: "pat@patmaddox.com",
      description: description() # can be a multi-line string instead
    ]
  end

usage

Usage

env MIX_ENV=prod mix freebsd.pkg will produce a FreeBSD .pkg file under freebsd/ which you can then install as usual.

freebsd/rc.eex produces /usr/local/etc/rc.d/<appname> which provides the following commands:

• start
• stop
• restart
• status
• pid
• remote
• eval
• rpc

Run them using service(8).

After installing the package, you should define application-specific environment variables in /usr/local/etc/<appname>.conf.

roadmap

Roadmap

• list dependencies
• auto-name package w/ CI suffix: <app>-ci-<branch>-<version>p<timestamp>
• MANIFEST conflict for <app> <app>-ci-*
• run as non-privileged user