Archive for February, 2006

mail != japanese

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. […]

Better URL parsing

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 […]

Better handling of moved ports

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. […]

Better HTMLification

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, […]

Virtual Categories are annoying

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 […]

I’m looking for work

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.

BSDCan Travel Tips

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Someone wrote something about BSDCan. And it wasn’t me!
I recommend reading Travel Tips for BSDCan 2006.