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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 […]