Today I discovered and fixed two problems with VUXML processing.

The cronjob that processed VUXML changes was commented out. The last time it had run was July 9th. Uncommenting the entry fixed that issue.
The VUXML processing did not clear the cache. I wrote and testing that code just now. It’ll run in […]

I have good news. Not only I have returned from OSCON with 8 (eight) Raptor HDD in tow, but I made good use of the travel time to start coding some new features. What new features?
Well!

Filtering - I made a first crack at filtering on the way from Detroit to Portland, OR. […]

I’m asking for donations to purchase new hardware. Details are in this FreeBSD Diary article. Thank you.

Royce Williams wrote in with a good suggestion about the watch list interface. When I read it, I immediately new it was a good idea.
Royce said the existing icons for adding and removing a port from the watch list were not intuitive. He suggesting using as a base, and putting […]

It was not long ago that I announced the deprecation of the security notificaiton report. This report depended upon manually designating a particular commit as security-related within the FreshPorts database. A lack of resources to perform this task meant that the report was rarely sent out. I suggested that everyone install and […]

On FreshPorts, virtual categories have no description.
What are virtual cagtegories? Those categories that do not have a corresponding subdirectory in the ports tree. They are only used as secondary categories, and only for search purposes.
FreshPorts can easily detect the creation of a new category, be it virtual or real (non-virtual). FreshPorts can grab the […]

The menu options on the left hand side of the page have changed. A “Watch List” grouping has been added, and links from other sections have been moved here. Putting all the watch list links in one box just makese sense. An added benefit: because they are all in one box, the […]

You may have seen this in your new port report recently:

16 Jul 2006

http://www.FreshPorts.org/devel/p5-Class-Multimethods-Pure/

http://www.FreshPorts.org/devel/p5-Luka/
Exception handling and reporting framework

What is missing is a description for devel/p5-Class-Multimethods-Pure. It should be there. And if you click on the link provided, you’ll see it. So why doesn’t the description appear in the report?
It’s […]

I’m in Charlottetown today, and waiting for a meeting to finish (I’m not in that meeting), so I thought I’d take the time to post this about newsfeeds.
FreshPorts now has more newsfeeds in more formats than you could ever possibly want or need. We now have 9 formats, all available from one central location.
Please […]

I’ve fixed the cache problem.
Reading the last few posts here, you’d know there have been a few cache problems. I’m hesitant to say it’s now all fixed, but well, I hope so.
The latest problem related to clearing cache entries. It was a permissions issue. The script which removes the cache entries runs […]