freshports-www-2.16.1 requires some database changes. This post outlines the updates on one host. Since starting this post, there’s been a few updates, and now I’m deplying 2.16.2.1 Stop processing [14:59 stage-ingress01 dvl ~] % sudo service freshports stop Stopping freshports. Waiting for PIDS: 26340. [17:18 stage-ingress01 dvl ~] % sudo service ingress stop Stopping ingress.
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Yesterday, the logs started complaining about riscv64. Nothing was broken, but it was noisy, and noise hides the stuff that matters. I worked through this with Claude, which also helped me write this post. What I saw Every hour, FreshPorts checks pkg.freebsd.org for new package builds. At 13:00 UTC on 10 October 2026, this showed
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For my own notes later, when I wonder why this thing is readonly. This was generated by Claude. FreshPorts moved from Subversion to git on 5 October 2026. The Subversion repository it came from, freshports-1, should never change again, but the Subversion server also hosts other repositories which are still in use. So the server
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I have attempted this process twice before. My thanks to those who helped me. I never completed your work. I appreciate your assistance and apologize that I never completed my part. Tonight, I resorted to Claude for help. This is a summary. FreshPorts has kept its code in version control since its first commit on
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FreshPorts can now be translated. Over the past few days, nearly all of the website’s own text has been prepared for translation using gettext. That covers: This is not in production yet. www.freshports.org is still English only. You can preview the translations on test.freshports.org, and they’ll come to the main site after more testing and
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p5-freshports-scripts is being updated to 2.3.0 – this post outlines the changes. See also p5-freshports-modules changes for 2.3.0 FreshPorts now checks its own port versions against the ports INDEX every night, and refreshes the ports which have drifted. That is almost all of this release. It also starts recording PKGVERSION from make, because composing a
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p5-freshports-modules is being updated to 2.3.0 – this post outlines the changes. This package jumps from 2.2.2 to 2.3.0 mainly to keep in line with a recent p5-freshports-scripts update. A small release: two commits, two files. port.pm starts recording PKGVERSION as make reports it, instead of leaving every consumer to compose a package version out
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These are the deployment notes for the INDEX comparison feature. This paragraph will be updated with the deployment dates as it moves through test, stage, and production. The following was composed by Claude. FreshPorts now checks its own port versions against the ports INDEX every night, and refreshes the ports which have drifted. Getting there
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The following outlines some changes set to be deployed soon. I will modify this paragraph to the past tense after deployment. The following was composed by Claude. Two fixes to freshports-www, both merged to main and tested on dvl.freshports.org. The three #598 dark-mode commits that were merged with them are included too. Escape request and
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This post carries on from using INDEX to find PORTVERSION deviations and outlines the first automated findings. On Monday night, compare-index.sh ran from a cronjob for the first time. That night found zero issues. Come Wednesday morning, this was in the reporting email from that job: The file contents were: [11:06 dev-ingress01 dvl ~] %
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