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Using triggers to update a table with calculated values

This was originally written in September 2018, but never published (for unknown reasons). I found it in the drafts section of the website today. In this post, you will see me change approach and not use a secondary table in one instance, but use multiple secondary tables in another. In one case, you will also […]

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What ports are dependant upon this port?

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;

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Configuration options – showconfig

When people ask me about packages versus ports, the one main advantage of ports over packages is the ability to set the configuration options. To set the configuration options for a given port, issue this command: make config Configuration options are stored in /var/db/ports. For example, the options for sysutils/bacula-server are: $ less /var/db/ports/bacula-server/options #

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