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 […]

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 […]

Caching to disk, at least for ports, is now implemented. I didn’t plan to moved a new feature into production on the day before I leave for a conference, but it happened.
If you notice that the website has not been updated after a port has been committed, please let me know. That […]

Spam is so annoying. It takes up so much of my time. I don’t want spammers posting here. Neither do you.
This morning I found 60 posts waiting to be moderated. I’ve have enough of this crap. I have better things to do with my time. Moderating spam is not […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

Last night, after an initial failed attempt, I moved FreshPorts and FreshSource to the new webserver. Both websites use the same database, so it makes sense to keep them on the same server.
When I first loaded up the FreshPorts database, I saw some errors that concerned me:

NOTICE: ALTER TABLE / ADD PRIMARY KEY […]

It was about a month ago that krion pointed out that when a port moves from one category to another, your watch list is left with the old port and it ignores the new port. For more details on this problem, please read my first post on this subject.
I’ve coded up an initial solution […]