FreshPorts has three main daemons: ingress – waits for incoming commits and creates XML. freshports – processes the XML into the database. fp-listen – listens for events and clears cache The first two run on the backend (the ingress node, or jail), the last run runs on the webserver (nginx jail). The list of events […]
Following on from yesterdays Quarterly branches: what’s next? and Processing commits on branches with git, I’ve started in on clearing commits from cache. The code First step, create a table which looks like this: freshports.devgit=# \d cache_clearing_commits Table “public.cache_clearing_commits” Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default —————–+—————————–+———–+———-+——— commit_to_clear | text | | not […]
With today’s work on Processing commits on branches with git, good progress was made. You can see commits on the quarterly branch (not up to date, because it’s not yet automated). You can see the port on the quarterly branch, if there’s a commit on the branch. Want to see a particular commit on a […]
Transitioning from subversion to git was both technically and personally challenging. During the COVID-19 pandemic there was a lot of work to carry out. A new server was created on AWS with a new layout and structure. For a few months it was nothing but my day job and FreshPorts in all my non-working hours. […]
Today I discovered a problem which required the reprocessing of about 400 commits. How is that accomplished? delete the commits from the database tell the ingress daemon to start processing from commit x Deleting This works so long as all the commits have been process in order. The canonical method would query git to get […]
Today at about 1:00 pm Philadelphia time, the website went offline. It was still there, it just could not answer any queries. In this post: Website and database server running in AWS FreeBSD 12.2 on a t3.medium EC2 instance PostgreSQL 12.5 running on a db.t2.large RDS instance Initial look Looking at load, it was acceptable: […]
This post is a how-to and reminder for myself. I’m working on finding a better way for FreshPorts to know a new physical ports category when it finds it. I think the only way is to look at the directories in the FreeBSD ports repo. A discussion on IRC led to this shell script: [dan@devgit-ingress01:/var/db/ingress/repos/ports] […]
This post is related to a recent tweet. It was months ago that I wondered why one port installed another as a dependency. I could see no link. Since it FreshPorts ports, earlier this week I did some testing: I removed the package, and it’s own dependencies from dev, then test, and finally stage. Monitoring […]
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 […]
Hello, The changeover from subversion to git for the FreeBSD project enters it’s final stage about three hours from now (as I type this). At 3:01 UTC on Mar 31 2021, the repository will become read-only. The full schedule for that process is in the FreeBSD wiki. The first git commit is not expected until […]