letsencrypt FreeBSD

Hey Folks, I was way busy lately, and I missed out on my renewal period for letsencrypt, plus FreeBSD had some changes for letsencrypt, met with a few erros and thought it might help someone.

Note if you are using a Fresh new version of FreeBSD, then you are better off by just doing the following pkg install and skipping to the Run it! section.

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pkg install py27-certbot

Ran the update the way I used to, and I started hitting an error:

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sudo letsencrypt certonly --non-interactive --webroot -w /usr/local/www/hackersmu/hackers.mu/ -d www.hackers.mu -d hackers.mu --debug --agree-tos --email justAname@hackers.mu

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/letsencrypt", line 5, in
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2927, in
@_call_aside
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2913, in _call_aside
f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2940, in _initialize_master_working_set
working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 637, in _build_master
return cls._build_from_requirements(__requires__)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 650, in _build_from_requirements
dists = ws.resolve(reqs, Environment())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 829, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'parsedatetime<2.0' distribution was not found and is required by letsencrypt

short version: seems the port was renamed to py-certbot

So:

Get the package name and version of the previous package.

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$ sudo pkg info |grep letsencrypt

py27-letsencrypt-0.4.1         Let's Encrypt client

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$ sudo portmaster -o security/py-certbot py27-letsencrypt-0.4.1
 

at first it couldn’t find certbot, then I realized I need to update my ports directory,

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sudo portsnap fetch update

….wait some time…
then relaunch the portmaster command as directed above.

Run it!

the rest is as simple as:

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sudo certbot certonly --non-interactive --webroot -w /usr/local/www/hackersmu/hackers.mu/ -d www.hackers.mu -d hackers.mu --debug --agree-tos --email selven@hackers.mu

if you want this to run quietly and automatically for you, try

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certbot renew --quiet