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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This post delves into using /usr/ports/INDEX from the FreeBSD port tree for use in solving the http://Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk problem and related issues. This work was saved on pro05. I have a script which creates a tab-delimited file from INDEX. The fields are: For example: Some notes INDEX carries one line per flavor, so a flavored port
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Following on from: When do commits happen in the FreeBSD docs tree? When do commits happen in the FreeBSD src tree? When do commits happen in the FreeBSD ports tree? I asked for the busiest times. This is what Claude said. When is the FreeBSD project busiest? I counted every commit to the ports, src
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Following on from When do commits happen to the FreeBSD ports tree?, I asked Claude to review the docs tree. How often does the FreeBSD doc tree go quiet? I looked at every commit to the doc tree over the past ten years and counted the periods of at least 15 minutes with no commits
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Following on from When do commits happen to the FreeBSD ports tree?, I asked Claude to review the src tree. How often does the FreeBSD src tree go quiet? I looked at every commit to the src tree over the past ten years and counted the periods of at least 15 minutes with no commits
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