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All FreshPorts servers are now running PostgreSQL 8.4 (they were running 8.3). The upgrade process was rather straight forward. I documented it during the first upgrade (of my development server). I then used the same process for both the beta server and the production server. All went well.
Merry Christmas.

I was annoyed earlier tonight to find that my configuration files for security/phpmyid were overwritten by an upgrade. I started to compose an email to the maintainer only to discover I am the maintainer.

From http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/
Interview with Dan Langille. We talk about the 2010 BSDCan and PGCon conferences. More information at http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/ and http://www.pgcon.org/2010/. We also talk briefly about FreeBSD 8.
File Info: 16Min, 8MB.

The RESTRICTED value on ports has been incorrectly recorded for some time.
The code fix:

$ cvs di port.pm
Index: port.pm
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/repositories/freshports-1/scripts/port.pm,v
retrieving revision 1.54
diff -r1.54 port.pm
168c168
< $restricted_alt = FreshPorts::Utilities::NULLIfEmpty($dbh, $this->{restricted_alt});
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> […]

I have 7 drives for sale: TZ89N-AV SCSI DLT 7000 tape drive.
See my ebay sale.

The new virtual category docs was recently added.
Interestingly enough, FreshPorts has a /docs/ directory, which directly conflics with this. As such, if you were to browe to http://www.freshports.org/docs/, you’d see this:
Index of /docs
Name […]

This is news to me (thanks Pav):
$ make -V VALID_CATEGORIES
accessibility afterstep arabic archivers astro audio benchmarks biology cad chinese comms converters databases deskutils devel docs dns editors elisp emulators finance french ftp games geography german gnome gnustep graphics hamradio haskell hebrew hungarian ipv6 irc japanese java kde kld korean lang linux […]

Welcome to unemployment.
What was ironic about today: At lunch, I dropped off a cheque to the car dealer for the car I’d picked up two Fridays ago. At 2pm, I was fired. DOH!
Bummer.
My resume.
Thank you.

I think I’ve fixed a problem with caching of non-ports. I was looking for something to do tonight after I could not sleep. I found a old post about a this issue and figured I could fix it.
The fix is in BETA. I’ll monitor it for a while before pushing it to […]