Re: Help porting google mtail

Hi Stuart,

I'm looking into this again,

Should I sent a email to mtail guys so they update their packages in pkg.go.dev?
or maybe I can fork and upload it to pkg.go.dev with another name? mtail-openbsd ?
maybe we can incorporate your port as-is and we regenerate somehow the MODGO sections at update time?

I'd like to understand a path to get this incorporated into openbsd ports

Thanks

On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:

On 2025/07/17 05:04, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> I'm trying to port google mtail but I don't understand how go (and go ports work),

> MODGO_VERSION = v3.0.0-rc9+incompatible # generated by make modgo-gen-modules

This is the newest on https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/google/mtail?tab=versions
but looking at https://github.com/google/mtail it isn't the latest.

The usual "portgen go" and go.port.mk modules mechanisms can't fetch a
current version and they break down with the +incompatible tag.

Writing a port for this can be done but it's a bit of a bodge. Port
attached with comments for the hairy bits. Updating will require
constructing new MODGO_MODULES and MODGO_MODFILES sections by hand.