I finally found the time to finish the NodeBB port. Now, before submitting it to the official port tree, I am testing it (install, upgrade, etc.). If you feel like you want to test it too, here are the instructions.

Installing NodeBB

In order to install NodeBB using pkg(8), you need to add the nodebb repository (my repository, not an official NodeBB repository as shown by the url). For this, create a nodebb.conf file in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ (create this folder if it does not exist) with the following content :

nodebb: {
  url: "pkg+https://pkg.hukadan.org/${ABI}",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type  : "PUBKEY",
  pubkey: "/usr/local/etc/ssl/certs/pkg.cert",
  enabled: yes
}

FreeBSD: {
  enabled: yes
}

Next you need to copy the public key of the nodebb repository into /usr/local/etc/ssl/certs/(create this folder if it does not exist). You can find the public key here. I will try to rebuild this repo once or twice a week.

Then, update the repository database and install NodeBB :

% pkg update
% pkg install www/nodebb-devel

It will not install any database so you will have to choose yours, for instance redis with pkg install databases/redis.

For the ones who want to use the ports(7) instead of pkg(8), here we go.

Launch NodeBB

First, launch your database with service redis onestart. Once it is done, you can launch NodeBB using the command service nodebb onestart. You can make it start at boot like any other services by adding the following lines in the /etc/rc.conf:

redis_enable=YES
nodebb_enable=YES

The ordering does not matter. These two lines will make sure that both services are started at boot. Once these lines added use start instead of onestart.

Misc

All the commands you use with the nodebb $arguments are available without modifications using service nodebb $arguments. They work in exactly the same way except for service nodebb upgrade that only update database schema.

NodeBB will be installed in the /usr/local/www/nodebb folder and will run under the unprivileged nodebb user.

For the one that test it, report any problem (or propose improvements) with the package (not NodeBB itself) here :
https://github.com/Hukadan/nodebb-devel-port/issues

Thank you for your participation.

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