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feat: packages, services and updates
The write side NetOrk/netork#799 needs, on both drivers.

- Packages: get_packages (FreeBSD `pkg query` with the repository as
  source, nothing on a classic system without pkg; OpenBSD `pkg_info`),
  install_package / uninstall_package as root (`pkg install`/`pkg
  delete`, `pkg_add -I`/`pkg_delete`), names checked before anything is
  sent, a failure raised with what the tool printed.
- Updates: get_available_updates. FreeBSD `pkg upgrade -n`, with
  `security` from VuXML (`pkg audit`: True for a listed package, False for
  any other, None when the audit could not run); OpenBSD `pkg_add -u -n
  -v` (no security verdict). Base-system patches are one `base-system`
  entry, as decided in #799: OpenBSD's `syspatch -c`, and on a classic
  FreeBSD what `freebsd-update` has fetched; on pkgbase the base system is
  packages from FreeBSD-base.
- Services: get_services lists the enabled ones (FreeBSD `service ...
  status` as root, as root-only pidfiles hide daemons otherwise, without
  root when sudo refuses; OpenBSD `rcctl check`), manage_service runs
  start/stop/restart/enable/disable as root and returns success and
  output.

Fixtures recorded on the FreeBSD 15.1 and OpenBSD 7.9 VMs with genuinely
outdated packages (FreeBSD pointed at the latest branch, an OpenBSD
package taken back to its release build). Checked live on both, including
a service restart and installing and removing a package.
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2026-10-08 09:59:04 +02:00

napalm-bsd

NAPALM drivers for FreeBSD (freebsd) and OpenBSD (openbsd) hosts, over SSH, built on napalm-device-types' OSDriver. Written for netOrk, which provisions and manages BSD VMs (NetOrk/netork#792).

Design

  • One shared BsdDriver (napalm_bsd/base.py) holds the SSH layer and every reader whose tools agree between the BSDs. FreeBSDDriver and OpenBSDDriver name only the commands that differ (hostname, release, kernel, hardware, netstat -rnW vs -rn).
  • Every command runs on its own SSH exec channel (run_on_transport from napalm-device-types): no PTY to parse a prompt from, stdout and stderr apart, a real exit status. run_command() / open_stream() are public (CommandChannelMixin).
  • Root comes from sudo -S with the sudo password on stdin (never on a command line), or sudo -n without one, as in napalm-linux. netOrk provisions sudo on BSD VMs for that reason; doas cannot read a password from stdin.
  • Parsing is in napalm_bsd/parse.py, pure functions tested on output recorded from real systems (tests/fixtures/, each directory's COMMANDS.txt lists what produced it).

Supported getters

Getter FreeBSD OpenBSD Source
get_facts ✓ ✓ kern.hostname/hostname, freebsd-version/uname, kenv smbios.*/hw.*, kern.boottime
get_interfaces, get_interfaces_ip ✓ ✓ ifconfig -a
get_route_to ✓ ✓ netstat -rnW / netstat -rn
get_arp_table ✓ ✓ arp -an
get_lldp_neighbors {} {} no LLDP daemon in either base system
get_users, get_processes, get_cron_jobs ✓ ✓ /etc/passwd+/etc/group, ps … lstart, system crontab + crontab -l
get_listening_sockets ✓ ✓ sockstat -46lq / fstat -n as root, netstat -an without
get_packages, install_package, uninstall_package ✓ ✓ pkg query / pkg install, pkg delete; pkg_info / pkg_add -I, pkg_delete
get_available_updates ✓ ✓ pkg upgrade -n + pkg audit (VuXML); pkg_add -u -n -v + syspatch -c
get_services, manage_service ✓ ✓ service -e + service … status / service … <action>; rcctl ls on + rcctl check / rcctl <action>

get_listening_sockets has the shape of napalm-device-types' ListeningSocketsMixin (whose ss/cgroup reading is Linux's) and its rule: read as root first, without root when that brings nothing back (attributed: False). FreeBSD's sockstat sees every socket either way; OpenBSD's fstat shows a user only their own processes, so without root the sockets come from netstat -an, unnamed.

There is deliberately no get_kernel_facts: KernelFactsMixin reports a Linux kernel's modules and CONFIG_* options, which a BSD kernel does not have, and hasattr(driver, "get_kernel_facts") has to stay truthful.

Updates. security on FreeBSD comes from VuXML (pkg audit): True for a package it lists as vulnerable, False for one it does not, None when the audit could not run. OpenBSD's tools do not say, so it is None there. Base-system patches are one entry, base-system (NetOrk/netork#799): OpenBSD's syspatch applies its patches together and in order; a classic FreeBSD base reports what freebsd-update has fetched (updatesready). On FreeBSD with pkgbase the base system is packages from the FreeBSD-base repository and needs no extra entry.

Services are the enabled ones. FreeBSD reads their status as root, as root-only pidfiles hide a daemon from anyone else, and without root when sudo refuses; OpenBSD's rcctl check needs no root. Actions run as root.

SNMP (#800) follows.

Connection arguments

optional_args: port (22), key_file, sudo_password, allow_agent, look_for_keys (both off by default).

Development

pip install "napalm-device-types @ git+https://git.netork.io/NAPALM/napalm-device-types.git"
pip install -e ".[dev]"
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