Archive for December, 2006

Merging from branch to HEAD

Monday, December 18th, 2006

FreshPorts has a CVS history that dates back to mid 2000 (and that’s just what I could find with a quick search). It started on a MySQL, which isn’t really up to the job. It quickly moved to PostgreSQL, the finest database server out there, and it just happens to be Open Source. […]

Removing an icon from FreshPorts

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Things change. They evolve. In previous versions of FreshPorts, to see the files for a particular commit, you went to /category/ports/files.php?message_id=Some.Message.ID. But no longer. Now you can see all the details at /commit.php?message_id=Some.Message.ID. That’s a shorter URL and eliminates some ugly URL parsing.

commit.php now doubles up and shows you both […]

Bacula - the backup solution

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

More and more people are learning about Bacula. Here is a little survey I did at LISA06.

Flagging commits on FreshPorts

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

I recently mentioned that Robert Watson suggested that the ability to flag commits in FreshSource. Over the past few days, durings flights and waiting for flights, I’ve managed to put together a quick and dirty try-me session.
If you visit the BETA site, and log in, you’ll notice a flag beside each commit. Click […]