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 Last modified Size Description Parent Directory – 404-for-virtual-pages.php 25-Oct-2007 12:57 8.2K Using 404 errors to serve up virtual pages […]
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After all I’ve written about virtual categories, it seems I still don’t have them right. The code is there: $ grep -l www/en/ports/categories * process_www_en_ports_categories.sh special_processing_files.pm but things are still not being updated. If you look at the list of categories, sort by Description, you will find several with a description of “This is a
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This is all Pav’s fault. The conversation went something like this (other conversations trimmed): [15:32] <Pav> dvl: around? [15:39] <dvl> Pav: here! [15:41] <dvl> .ping Pav [15:41] <dvl> ping Pav [15:41] *** ¢ PING sent to Pav [15:41] *** ¢ PING reply of 3.25 s from Pav [15:41] <dvl> third time works [15:42] <laemodost> Ping
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Remember that wonderful new scheme for parsing URLs? Well, it broke virtual categories. That’s only because I forgot about them. Not because the schema is broken. It will still work, for any item in the tree. But virtual categories are not in the tree. I’ll change the new code to do some extra checks before
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On FreshPorts, virtual categories have no description. What are virtual cagtegories? Those categories that do not have a corresponding subdirectory in the ports tree. They are only used as secondary categories, and only for search purposes. FreshPorts can easily detect the creation of a new category, be it virtual or real (non-virtual). FreshPorts can grab
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This post is mostly for personal use as I investigate this topic. It may take a few days and I need to keep notes. Last week, FreshPorts went live with git commits. There are some outstanding issues, such as commits to branches, which I will catch up on in the weeks to come. During that
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A recent post on the FreeBSD Ports mailing list asked: Hi, I noticed a big difference between the number of ports on freebsd.org/ports/ and on freshports.org. Currently, it’s 33348 vs. 41346. The freebsd.org’s number equals roughly the number of lines of a current INDEX, but how does FreshPorts count? Best, Moritz In short, they are
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Back in 2007, perhaps earlier, I wrote a Python script which listens for various PostgreSQL events. In particular, this script will invalidate the cache for a port when it is updated. There are several other such tasks, such as the creation of a new category. When the commit processing daemon (freshports) detects that a new
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When is a port not a port? When it was deleted before the ports_categories table was introduced. I noticed that some long-deleted ports were not displaying correctly. For example: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/cdrecord/ It was displaying as a non-port, but it clearly was a port, although deleted. I tracked the problem down to this stored procedure: CREATE OR
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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 lisp mail
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