Re: NEW net/monero

> Hi ports,
>
> I'd like to import Monero. OK?
>
> The CLI works great. The daemon manages to do a full sync, but with lots
> of serious stalls that rendered the system unusable for a long amount of
> minutes. Should I add a warning message about that in DESCR or README?

The daemon should probably read configuration from /etc, as per the porting guide,
file.

There is also some documentation and a template config file in the source tarball,
which could be worth installing for reference. In my port I implemented
this (and some other things) like in the diff below.

(I remember getting these from previous ports on this list, my own has it too.)


Stepan

diff -ruNp monero/Makefile mymonero/Makefile
--- monero/Makefile Sun Nov 3 22:13:47 2024
+++ mymonero/Makefile Sat Nov 2 20:18:01 2024
@@ -1,48 +1,59 @@
+post-install:
+ ${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} ${PREFIX}/share/doc/monero
+ ${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} ${WRKINST}${LOCALSTATEDIR}/monero
+ ${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} ${PREFIX}/share/examples/monero
+ ${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/README.md ${WRKSRC}/docs/*.md\
+ ${PREFIX}/share/doc/monero/
+ ${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKBUILD}/lib/libwallet.a ${PREFIX}/lib/
+ ${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/utils/conf/monerod.conf\
+ $(PREFIX)/share/examples/monero/

diff -ruNp monero/pkg/monerod.rc mymonero/pkg/monerod.rc
--- monero/pkg/monerod.rc Sun Nov 3 20:25:07 2024
+++ mymonero/pkg/monerod.rc Wed Aug 28 22:44:12 2024
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

daemon="${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/monerod"
daemon_user="_monerod"
-daemon_flags="--detach"
+daemon_flags="--detach --config-file ${SYSCONFDIR}/monerod.conf"

. /etc/rc.d/rc.subr

diff -ruNp monero/pkg/PLIST mymonero/pkg/PLIST
--- monero/pkg/PLIST Sun Nov 3 20:25:07 2024
+++ mymonero/pkg/PLIST Tue Oct 8 19:54:20 2024
@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
-@newgroup _monerod:627
-@newuser _monerod:627:627::monero:/var/monero:/sbin/nologin
+@newgroup _monerod:999
+@newuser _monerod:999:999::monero daemon account:${LOCALSTATEDIR}/monero:/sbin/nologin
@rcscript ${RCDIR}/monerod
-@mode 750
-@owner _monerod
-@group _monerod
-@sample /var/monero/
-@mode
-@owner
-@group
@bin bin/monero-blockchain-ancestry
@bin bin/monero-blockchain-depth
@bin bin/monero-blockchain-export
@@ -25,3 +18,21 @@
include/wallet/
include/wallet/api/
include/wallet/api/wallet2_api.h
+@static-lib lib/libwallet.a
+share/doc/monero/
+share/doc/monero/ANONYMITY_NETWORKS.md
+share/doc/monero/COMPILING_DEBUGGING_TESTING.md
+share/doc/monero/CONTRIBUTING.md
+share/doc/monero/LEVIN_PROTOCOL.md
+share/doc/monero/PORTABLE_STORAGE.md
+share/doc/monero/README.i18n.md
+share/doc/monero/README.md
+share/doc/monero/RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md
+share/doc/monero/ZMQ.md
+share/examples/monero/
+share/examples/monero/monerod.conf
+@sample ${SYSCONFDIR}/monerod.conf
+@mode 700
+@owner _monerod
+@group _monerod
+@sample ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/monero/

diff -ruNp monero/patches/patch-utils_conf_monerod_conf mymonero/patches/patch-utils_conf_monerod_conf
--- monero/patches/patch-utils_conf_monerod_conf Thu Jan 1 09:00:00 1970
+++ mymonero/patches/patch-utils_conf_monerod_conf Fri Aug 30 18:12:53 2024
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Set correct paths in default config file.
+
+Index: utils/conf/monerod.conf
+--- utils/conf/monerod.conf.orig
++++ utils/conf/monerod.conf
+@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
+ # Boolean options such as 'no-igd' are specified as 'no-igd=1'.
+ # See 'monerod --help' for all available options.
+
+-data-dir=/var/lib/monero
+-log-file=/var/log/monero/monero.log
++data-dir=${LOCALSTATEDIR}/monero
++log-file=${LOCALSTATEDIR}/monero/log
+ log-level=0