Archive for February, 2011

What if the port doesn’t exist?

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

The most recent project on FreshPorts is what ports are dependent upon *this* port.
Tonight, two issues came to mind that I need to resolve:

Ports in the DEPENDS that do not exist
Refreshing other ports when a port depends upon them

At present, FreshPorts refuses to process a commit if a port does not exist. It produces […]

server crash

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

I have no idea what caused the server to freeze up at about 00:10 GMT on 13 Feb 2011. Everything, including ping, stopped working then. Service was restored at about 17:26 GMT. Why so long? I was occupied elsewhere.
FreshPorts appears to have caught up with everything on the commit list.

What ports are dependant upon this port?

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

An interesting discussion started earlier this week: upstream dependents.
At present, FreshPorts captures and displays the information output from:

make -V BUILD_DEPENDS -V RUN_DEPENDS -V LIB_DEPENDS

For a given port, this tells up what that port depends upon for building, running, and libraries.
The request is for this same information, but in the reverse ordering; what ports depend upon […]