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Thirteen busy days: FreshPorts now speaks your language, fits your phone, and more

Leave a Comment / Announcements / Dan Langille

The past thirteen days have been among the busiest in FreshPorts history: twenty-two pull requests merged, seven people contributing, and changes to almost every page on the site. Here are the highlights. FreshPorts speaks your language FreshPorts can now be translated (#678), and five translations are ready: Deutsch, by Stefan Eßer Français (Canada), by Marc

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Deploying freshports-www-2.16.1

Leave a Comment / Development / Dan Langille

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 deploying 2.16.2.6 This post was composed and amended over several upgrades. The inconsistencies you see in hostnames and prompts are related to that. Stop processing [14:59 stage-ingress01 dvl ~] %

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riscv64 has packages, but only pkgbase

Leave a Comment / packages / Dan Langille

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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How I set the old subversion repo to readonly

Leave a Comment / Announcements, git, svn2git / Dan Langille

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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Converting the last FreshPorts subversion repos to git

Leave a Comment / Announcements, git, svn2git / Dan Langille

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 now speaks more than English

Leave a Comment / Announcements / Dan Langille

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 changes for 2.3.0

Leave a Comment / Deployment Notes, Development / Dan Langille

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 changes for 2.3.0

Leave a Comment / Development / Dan Langille

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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Index comparison – deployment notes

Leave a Comment / Announcements, Deployment Notes, Development / Dan Langille

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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vuxml.php escaping and the + in package names (#680)

Leave a Comment / Announcements, Deployment Notes, Development / Dan Langille

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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