Re: Chromium availability.

On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 06:08:51AM -0700, Mark G. wrote:
> On 8/5/26 02:28, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > just for your information:
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 07:59:17PM -0700, Mark G. wrote:
> >> On 8/4/26 19:35, David wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2026-08-04 at 19:31 -0700, Mark G. wrote:
> >>>> On 8/4/26 19:26, David wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 2026-08-04 at 18:56 -0700, Mark G. wrote:
> >>>>>> On 8/4/26 18:51, David wrote:
> > ...
> >> I am running 14.4-RELEASE-p8, on another system and see
> >> that chromium is missing from "latest" and "quarterly"
> >> (I am just showing quarterly below, switching to latest
> >> gives the same results):
> > 
> > same version here.
> > On 14 I was never able to install chromium; it always ended
> > in a timeout (after 24 hours).
> > Perhaps that's why it isn't in the repository?
> > 
> > from the poudriere log:
> > 
> > [00:01:08] [01] [00:00:00] Building www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96
> > [00:01:08] [01] [00:00:00] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: check-sanity
> > [00:01:18] [01] [00:00:10] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: pkg-depends
> > [00:01:19] [01] [00:00:11] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: fetch-depends
> > [00:01:19] [01] [00:00:11] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: fetch
> > [00:01:55] [01] [00:00:47] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: checksum
> > [00:02:00] [01] [00:00:52] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: extract-depends
> > [00:02:00] [01] [00:00:52] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: extract
> > [00:03:00] [01] [00:01:52] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: patch-depends
> > [00:03:01] [01] [00:01:53] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: patch
> > [00:03:03] [01] [00:01:55] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: build-depends
> > [00:06:12] [01] [00:05:04] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: lib-depends
> > [00:06:53] [01] [00:05:45] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: configure
> > [00:07:27] [01] [00:06:19] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: build
> > [1D:00:07:42] [01] [1D:00:06:34] Status   www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: timeout
> > [1D:00:44:46] [01] [1D:00:43:38] Finished www/chromium | chromium-148.0.7778.96: Failed: build/timeout
> > 
> > 
> > I don't depend on chromium, so I ignored it.
> > Is there a built-in timeout in poudriere?
> > 
> 
> 
> There are indeed a couple of knobs that need setting in:
> 
> /usr/local/etc/poudriere.conf
> 
> In no particular order (I had some file limit fails, so bumped this up):
> 
> # How many file descriptors to limit each jail process to (default: 1024)
> # This can also be set per PKGBASE, such as MAX_FILES_RStudio=2048.
> # Package names with hyphens (-) should be replaced with underscores (_).
> MAX_FILES=4096
> 
> 
> The one you're looking for (I set to 10 days, and chromium finishes):
> 
> # This defines the max time (in seconds) that a command may run for a build
> # before it is killed for taking too long. Default: 86400
> MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=864000
> 
> 
> I also lowered PARALLEL_JOBS from the max (32 in my case) to less,
> so I would have CPUs available for other things than the builder.
> 
> # parallel build support.
> #
> # By default poudriere uses hw.ncpu to determine the number of builders.
> # You can override this default by changing PARALLEL_JOBS here, or
> # by specifying the -J flag to bulk/testport.
> #
> # Example to define PARALLEL_JOBS to one single job
> PARALLEL_JOBS=28
> 
> 
> I also disabled the use of TMPFS (and some failures stopped):
> 
> # Use tmpfs(5)
> # This can be a space-separated list of options:
> # wrkdir    - Use tmpfs(5) for port building WRKDIRPREFIX
> # data      - Use tmpfs(5) for poudriere cache/temp build data
> # localbase - Use tmpfs(5) for LOCALBASE (installing ports for packaging/testing)
> # all       - Run the entire build in memory, including builder jails.
> # yes       - Enables tmpfs(5) for wrkdir and data
> # no        - Disable use of tmpfs(5)
> # EXAMPLE: USE_TMPFS="wrkdir data"
> 
> # Disable 20240916 see if build problems go away
> USE_TMPFS=no

Thanks for these infos!

Best regards,
Johannes-Maria