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Posted to dev@openoffice.apache.org by Dick Groskamp <di...@apache.org> on 2026/10/03 12:14:49 UTC
Re: Running OpenGrok locally instead
On 2026/09/24 18:21:37 Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> From what I see, OpenGrok indexing is very quick, even on my 10 year old PC
> with 16 GB RAM. And we could trigger it less often, eg. daily.
>
> It isn't only C++ that OpenGrok indexes, but many other languages. I used
> it to search for the "portable" PKGFORMAT, and tried to understand how it
> is processed and what it means, which involved Perl code.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM <Pe...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > i am sorry. I did not care much about the server. One of the first
> > things i depriorized.
> >
> > And it seems that the server does not have the CPU power to deal with
> > the re-indexing that is triggered all the time because we really moving
> > now.
> >
> > I have added a language server Protocol tool to bazel-migration. it
> > produces an xml file which resolves the uno calls in our code.
> >
> > Sadly the C++ resolution does not work on my experimental IDE (i tried
> > lapce). But if i create maybe one that can do this too, there is no need
> > for opengrok at all?
> >
> > Am 24.09.2026 um 15:26 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I've lost hope in http://opengrok.openoffice.org/ working when I need
> > it,
> > > and got OpenGrok running on my PC instead.
> > >
> > > Also recently FreeBSD finally got Podman working, which now supports
> > > FreeBSD upstream, is compatible with Docker images, and able to run Linux
> > > Docker containers at full performance using its Linux compatibility layer
> > > :-).
> > >
> > > After some exploration, I got it working quite easily:
> > >
> > > 1. Make these directories:
> > > /opt/opengrok/data - empty
> > > /opt/opengrok/etc - empty
> > > /opt/opengrok/openoffice-git - clean working tree with the branch you
> > want
> > > (eg. trunk) checked out
> > >
> > > 2. Copy the XML below and paste it as
> > > /opt/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml. It was derived from
> > > images/opengrok/opengrok_custom_config.xml in
> > > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice-devtools.git but changed
> > to
> > > use 4 spaces per tab (in a way that works):
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > <java version="1.8.0_121" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
> > > <object class="org.opengrok.indexer.configuration.Configuration"
> > > id="Configuration0">
> > > <void property="projects">
> > > <void method="put">
> > > <string>openoffice-git</string>
> > > <object class="org.opengrok.indexer.configuration.Project">
> > > <void property="name">
> > > <string>openoffice-git</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void property="path">
> > > <string>/openoffice-git</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void property="tabSize">
> > > <int>4</int>
> > > </void>
> > > </object>
> > > </void>
> > > </void>
> > > <void id="IgnoredNames0" property="ignoredNames">
> > > <void id="IgnoredFiles0" property="ignoredFiles">
> > > <void property="items">
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.log</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.tmp</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.xls</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.jpg</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.ods</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.otp</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.ods</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.odt</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.zip</string>
> > > </void>
> > > <void method="add">
> > > <string>*.txt</string>
> > > </void>
> > > </void>
> > > </void>
> > > </void>
> > > </object>
> > > </java>
> > >
> > >
> > > 3. podman run \
> > > --name opengrok-aoo \
> > > -d \
> > > --restart=unless-stopped \
> > > -v
> > >
> > /opt/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml:/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml
> > > \
> > > -v /opt/opengrok/openoffice-git:/opengrok/src/openoffice-git \
> > > -v /opt/opengrok/data:/opengrok/data \
> > > -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
> > > -e READONLY_CONFIG_FILE=/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml \
> > > -e SYNC_PERIOD_MINUTES=0 \
> > > -e NOMIRROR=1 \
> > > --network=host \
> > > docker.io/opengrok/docker:latest
> > >
> > > On FreeBSD you also need:
> > > --os linux
> > > -v /compat/linux/proc:/proc
> > > to enable Linux compatibility, and mount linprocfs from the host's
> > > /compat/linux/proc to the container's /proc.
> > >
> > > Note how:
> > > - you can replace "podman" with "docker", they use the same command line
> > > options.
> > > - mounting into /opengrok/data persists data across restarts.
> > > - mounting /etc/localtime is for timezone.
> > > - I needed "--network=host" but "-p 8080:8080" should also work, still
> > > investigating.
> > > - the syncing and mirroring could also be left on.
> > > - podman wants the full URL docker.io/opengrok/docker:latest instead of
> > > opengrok/docker:latest, it's also more secure that way.
> > > - you can monitor logs with "podman logs -f opengrok-aoo".
> > >
> > > It works remarkably well and requires no further setup, just visit
> > > http://localhost:8080 and start using it :-). The project will only
> > become
> > > visible after indexing finishes, which took about 15 minutes after first
> > > start for me.
> > >
> > > If it takes a long time to start indexing, that's because it uselessly
> > > tries to contact a Perforce server (
> > > https://github.com/oracle/opengrok/discussions/4572). It's possible to
> > > shell into the container and uninstall the Perforce apt packages to skip
> > > that, as described on that bug report.
> > >
> > > Don't use your main working tree because it will index binaries and
> > > generated files, and chown all your files to user:group 1111:1111. Use a
> > > separate, clean working tree, with no generated files.
> > >
> > > It's also MUCH faster locally :-), due to shorter round-trip times.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Damjan
> > >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@openoffice.apache.org
> >
> >
> Just set it up on my Win11. It works :-)
Used the excellent explaining from William Leara <url>https://www.basicinputoutput.com/2024/04/opengrok-your-way-to-success.html</url> and managed to get through it
(mind you I'm no technician at all)
Only thing I ran into was that openGrok doesn't (yet) support Tomcat 11!
Found that out after two days of trying.
Installed Tomcat 10 and ran like clockwork.
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Re: Running OpenGrok locally instead
Posted by Dick Groskamp <di...@apache.org>.
On 2026/10/03 16:51:01 Dave Fisher wrote:
>
>
> > On Oct 3, 2026, at 5:14 AM, Dick Groskamp <di...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2026/09/24 18:21:37 Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> >> From what I see, OpenGrok indexing is very quick, even on my 10 year old PC
> >> with 16 GB RAM. And we could trigger it less often, eg. daily.
> >>
> >> It isn't only C++ that OpenGrok indexes, but many other languages. I used
> >> it to search for the "portable" PKGFORMAT, and tried to understand how it
> >> is processed and what it means, which involved Perl code.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM <Pe...@apache.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> i am sorry. I did not care much about the server. One of the first
> >>> things i depriorized.
> >>>
> >>> And it seems that the server does not have the CPU power to deal with
> >>> the re-indexing that is triggered all the time because we really moving
> >>> now.
> >>>
> >>> I have added a language server Protocol tool to bazel-migration. it
> >>> produces an xml file which resolves the uno calls in our code.
> >>>
> >>> Sadly the C++ resolution does not work on my experimental IDE (i tried
> >>> lapce). But if i create maybe one that can do this too, there is no need
> >>> for opengrok at all?
> >>>
> >>> Am 24.09.2026 um 15:26 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic:
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> I've lost hope in http://opengrok.openoffice.org/ working when I need
> >>> it,
> >>>> and got OpenGrok running on my PC instead.
> >>>>
> >>>> Also recently FreeBSD finally got Podman working, which now supports
> >>>> FreeBSD upstream, is compatible with Docker images, and able to run Linux
> >>>> Docker containers at full performance using its Linux compatibility layer
> >>>> :-).
> >>>>
> >>>> After some exploration, I got it working quite easily:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. Make these directories:
> >>>> /opt/opengrok/data - empty
> >>>> /opt/opengrok/etc - empty
> >>>> /opt/opengrok/openoffice-git - clean working tree with the branch you
> >>> want
> >>>> (eg. trunk) checked out
> >>>>
> >>>> 2. Copy the XML below and paste it as
> >>>> /opt/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml. It was derived from
> >>>> images/opengrok/opengrok_custom_config.xml in
> >>>> https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice-devtools.git but changed
> >>> to
> >>>> use 4 spaces per tab (in a way that works):
> >>>>
> >>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> >>>> <java version="1.8.0_121" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
> >>>> <object class="org.opengrok.indexer.configuration.Configuration"
> >>>> id="Configuration0">
> >>>> <void property="projects">
> >>>> <void method="put">
> >>>> <string>openoffice-git</string>
> >>>> <object class="org.opengrok.indexer.configuration.Project">
> >>>> <void property="name">
> >>>> <string>openoffice-git</string>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> <void property="path">
> >>>> <string>/openoffice-git</string>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> <void property="tabSize">
> >>>> <int>4</int>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> </object>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> <void id="IgnoredNames0" property="ignoredNames">
> >>>> <void id="IgnoredFiles0" property="ignoredFiles">
> >>>> <void property="items">
> >>>> <void method="add">
> >>>> <string>*.log</string>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> <void method="add">
> >>>> <string>*.tmp</string>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> <void method="add">
> >>>> <string>*.xls</string>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> <void method="add">
> >>>> <string>*.jpg</string>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> <void method="add">
> >>>> <string>*.ods</string>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> <void method="add">
> >>>> <string>*.otp</string>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> <void method="add">
> >>>> <string>*.ods</string>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> <void method="add">
> >>>> <string>*.odt</string>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> <void method="add">
> >>>> <string>*.zip</string>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> <void method="add">
> >>>> <string>*.txt</string>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> </void>
> >>>> </object>
> >>>> </java>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 3. podman run \
> >>>> --name opengrok-aoo \
> >>>> -d \
> >>>> --restart=unless-stopped \
> >>>> -v
> >>>>
> >>> /opt/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml:/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml
> >>>> \
> >>>> -v /opt/opengrok/openoffice-git:/opengrok/src/openoffice-git \
> >>>> -v /opt/opengrok/data:/opengrok/data \
> >>>> -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
> >>>> -e READONLY_CONFIG_FILE=/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml \
> >>>> -e SYNC_PERIOD_MINUTES=0 \
> >>>> -e NOMIRROR=1 \
> >>>> --network=host \
> >>>> docker.io/opengrok/docker:latest
> >>>>
> >>>> On FreeBSD you also need:
> >>>> --os linux
> >>>> -v /compat/linux/proc:/proc
> >>>> to enable Linux compatibility, and mount linprocfs from the host's
> >>>> /compat/linux/proc to the container's /proc.
> >>>>
> >>>> Note how:
> >>>> - you can replace "podman" with "docker", they use the same command line
> >>>> options.
> >>>> - mounting into /opengrok/data persists data across restarts.
> >>>> - mounting /etc/localtime is for timezone.
> >>>> - I needed "--network=host" but "-p 8080:8080" should also work, still
> >>>> investigating.
> >>>> - the syncing and mirroring could also be left on.
> >>>> - podman wants the full URL docker.io/opengrok/docker:latest instead of
> >>>> opengrok/docker:latest, it's also more secure that way.
> >>>> - you can monitor logs with "podman logs -f opengrok-aoo".
> >>>>
> >>>> It works remarkably well and requires no further setup, just visit
> >>>> http://localhost:8080 and start using it :-). The project will only
> >>> become
> >>>> visible after indexing finishes, which took about 15 minutes after first
> >>>> start for me.
> >>>>
> >>>> If it takes a long time to start indexing, that's because it uselessly
> >>>> tries to contact a Perforce server (
> >>>> https://github.com/oracle/opengrok/discussions/4572). It's possible to
> >>>> shell into the container and uninstall the Perforce apt packages to skip
> >>>> that, as described on that bug report.
> >>>>
> >>>> Don't use your main working tree because it will index binaries and
> >>>> generated files, and chown all your files to user:group 1111:1111. Use a
> >>>> separate, clean working tree, with no generated files.
> >>>>
> >>>> It's also MUCH faster locally :-), due to shorter round-trip times.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> Damjan
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@openoffice.apache.org
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Just set it up on my Win11. It works :-)
> > Used the excellent explaining from William Leara <url>https://www.basicinputoutput.com/2024/04/opengrok-your-way-to-success.html</url> and managed to get through it
> > (mind you I'm no technician at all)
> >
> > Only thing I ran into was that openGrok doesn't (yet) support Tomcat 11!
> > Found that out after two days of trying.
> > Installed Tomcat 10 and ran like clockwork.
>
> If you wish to help manage a VM then we can guide you on how to get the proper permissions in place.
>
> Best,
> Dave
>
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@openoffice.apache.org
> >
>
>
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>
Thanks for the offer, but that is out of my league.
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Re: Running OpenGrok locally instead
Posted by Dave Fisher <wa...@apache.org>.
> On Oct 3, 2026, at 5:14 AM, Dick Groskamp <di...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 2026/09/24 18:21:37 Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
>> From what I see, OpenGrok indexing is very quick, even on my 10 year old PC
>> with 16 GB RAM. And we could trigger it less often, eg. daily.
>>
>> It isn't only C++ that OpenGrok indexes, but many other languages. I used
>> it to search for the "portable" PKGFORMAT, and tried to understand how it
>> is processed and what it means, which involved Perl code.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM <Pe...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>> i am sorry. I did not care much about the server. One of the first
>>> things i depriorized.
>>>
>>> And it seems that the server does not have the CPU power to deal with
>>> the re-indexing that is triggered all the time because we really moving
>>> now.
>>>
>>> I have added a language server Protocol tool to bazel-migration. it
>>> produces an xml file which resolves the uno calls in our code.
>>>
>>> Sadly the C++ resolution does not work on my experimental IDE (i tried
>>> lapce). But if i create maybe one that can do this too, there is no need
>>> for opengrok at all?
>>>
>>> Am 24.09.2026 um 15:26 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I've lost hope in http://opengrok.openoffice.org/ working when I need
>>> it,
>>>> and got OpenGrok running on my PC instead.
>>>>
>>>> Also recently FreeBSD finally got Podman working, which now supports
>>>> FreeBSD upstream, is compatible with Docker images, and able to run Linux
>>>> Docker containers at full performance using its Linux compatibility layer
>>>> :-).
>>>>
>>>> After some exploration, I got it working quite easily:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Make these directories:
>>>> /opt/opengrok/data - empty
>>>> /opt/opengrok/etc - empty
>>>> /opt/opengrok/openoffice-git - clean working tree with the branch you
>>> want
>>>> (eg. trunk) checked out
>>>>
>>>> 2. Copy the XML below and paste it as
>>>> /opt/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml. It was derived from
>>>> images/opengrok/opengrok_custom_config.xml in
>>>> https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice-devtools.git but changed
>>> to
>>>> use 4 spaces per tab (in a way that works):
>>>>
>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>>> <java version="1.8.0_121" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
>>>> <object class="org.opengrok.indexer.configuration.Configuration"
>>>> id="Configuration0">
>>>> <void property="projects">
>>>> <void method="put">
>>>> <string>openoffice-git</string>
>>>> <object class="org.opengrok.indexer.configuration.Project">
>>>> <void property="name">
>>>> <string>openoffice-git</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void property="path">
>>>> <string>/openoffice-git</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void property="tabSize">
>>>> <int>4</int>
>>>> </void>
>>>> </object>
>>>> </void>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void id="IgnoredNames0" property="ignoredNames">
>>>> <void id="IgnoredFiles0" property="ignoredFiles">
>>>> <void property="items">
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.log</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.tmp</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.xls</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.jpg</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.ods</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.otp</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.ods</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.odt</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.zip</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> <void method="add">
>>>> <string>*.txt</string>
>>>> </void>
>>>> </void>
>>>> </void>
>>>> </void>
>>>> </object>
>>>> </java>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 3. podman run \
>>>> --name opengrok-aoo \
>>>> -d \
>>>> --restart=unless-stopped \
>>>> -v
>>>>
>>> /opt/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml:/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml
>>>> \
>>>> -v /opt/opengrok/openoffice-git:/opengrok/src/openoffice-git \
>>>> -v /opt/opengrok/data:/opengrok/data \
>>>> -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
>>>> -e READONLY_CONFIG_FILE=/opengrok/etc/opengrok_custom_config.xml \
>>>> -e SYNC_PERIOD_MINUTES=0 \
>>>> -e NOMIRROR=1 \
>>>> --network=host \
>>>> docker.io/opengrok/docker:latest
>>>>
>>>> On FreeBSD you also need:
>>>> --os linux
>>>> -v /compat/linux/proc:/proc
>>>> to enable Linux compatibility, and mount linprocfs from the host's
>>>> /compat/linux/proc to the container's /proc.
>>>>
>>>> Note how:
>>>> - you can replace "podman" with "docker", they use the same command line
>>>> options.
>>>> - mounting into /opengrok/data persists data across restarts.
>>>> - mounting /etc/localtime is for timezone.
>>>> - I needed "--network=host" but "-p 8080:8080" should also work, still
>>>> investigating.
>>>> - the syncing and mirroring could also be left on.
>>>> - podman wants the full URL docker.io/opengrok/docker:latest instead of
>>>> opengrok/docker:latest, it's also more secure that way.
>>>> - you can monitor logs with "podman logs -f opengrok-aoo".
>>>>
>>>> It works remarkably well and requires no further setup, just visit
>>>> http://localhost:8080 and start using it :-). The project will only
>>> become
>>>> visible after indexing finishes, which took about 15 minutes after first
>>>> start for me.
>>>>
>>>> If it takes a long time to start indexing, that's because it uselessly
>>>> tries to contact a Perforce server (
>>>> https://github.com/oracle/opengrok/discussions/4572). It's possible to
>>>> shell into the container and uninstall the Perforce apt packages to skip
>>>> that, as described on that bug report.
>>>>
>>>> Don't use your main working tree because it will index binaries and
>>>> generated files, and chown all your files to user:group 1111:1111. Use a
>>>> separate, clean working tree, with no generated files.
>>>>
>>>> It's also MUCH faster locally :-), due to shorter round-trip times.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Damjan
>>>>
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.org
>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@openoffice.apache.org
>>>
>>>
>> Just set it up on my Win11. It works :-)
> Used the excellent explaining from William Leara <url>https://www.basicinputoutput.com/2024/04/opengrok-your-way-to-success.html</url> and managed to get through it
> (mind you I'm no technician at all)
>
> Only thing I ran into was that openGrok doesn't (yet) support Tomcat 11!
> Found that out after two days of trying.
> Installed Tomcat 10 and ran like clockwork.
If you wish to help manage a VM then we can guide you on how to get the proper permissions in place.
Best,
Dave
>
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