Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Yes, that’s right. You heard me. mail != japanese.
Stefan Walter just wrote me to point out that http://www.freshports.org/mail/squirrelmail/ was incorrectly displaying the content from japanese/squirrelmail. At first, I was thinking physical categories versus virtual categories. I was wrong. It was a good old SQL error.
I recently introduced Better URL Parsing. […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
I’m just about to commit some changes that will greatly improve the URL parsing. I’m sure there’s more room for improvment, but this is a first step.
Please read Parsing the URL for a bit of background.
It now handles virtual categories correctly. In the process, I had to fix up a number other items […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
It was nearly a month ago that krion pointed a watch list problem related to ports that move. I put a short term solution into BETA, which has just been moved to production.
If you see a notice on your watch list and it indicates that one or more of your watched ports have moved. […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
Kevin Fitzpatrick pointed out that the HTMLification code for FreshPorts was including a comma that wasn’t part of the URL. The comma in question is part of the Makefile for java/linux-sun-jdk14. In that file, you’ll find this:
IGNORE: You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform (j2sdk-1_4_2_10-linux-i586.bin) from http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22&PartDetailId=j2sdk-1.4.2_10-oth-JPR&SiteId=JSC&TransactionId=noreg, […]
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Monday, February 6th, 2006
Virtual categories are nice, but they are hard to deal with. For starters, there is no simple place to get the description for a virtual category. For a physical category, you can do this:
[dan@polo:~/ports/sysutils] $ make -V COMMENT
System utilities
[dan@polo:~/ports/sysutils] $ grep “System utilities” *
Makefile: COMMENT = System utilities
[dan@polo:~/ports/sysutils] $
But for a […]
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer.
Please read my resume and contact me if you have any leads. Thank you.
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
Someone wrote something about BSDCan. And it wasn’t me!
I recommend reading Travel Tips for BSDCan 2006.
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