FreshPorts has a CVS history that dates back to mid 2000 (and that’s just what I could find with a quick search). It started on a MySQL, which isn’t really up to the job. It quickly moved to PostgreSQL, the finest database server out there, and it just happens to be Open Source. Somewhere along […]
Merging from branch to HEAD Read More »
Things change. They evolve. In previous versions of FreshPorts, to see the files for a particular commit, you went to /category/ports/files.php?message_id=Some.Message.ID. But no longer. Now you can see all the details at /commit.php?message_id=Some.Message.ID. That’s a shorter URL and eliminates some ugly URL parsing. commit.php now doubles up and shows you both the commit details and
Removing an icon from FreshPorts Read More »
More and more people are learning about Bacula. Here is a little survey I did at LISA06.
Bacula – the backup solution Read More »
I recently mentioned that Robert Watson suggested that the ability to flag commits in FreshSource. Over the past few days, durings flights and waiting for flights, I’ve managed to put together a quick and dirty try-me session. If you visit the BETA site, and log in, you’ll notice a flag beside each commit. Click on
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I’m headed to LISA. I was able to get a cheap air ticket, and an even cheaper hotel. I’ll be meeting up with the PostgreSQL group and spending most of my time at the *BSD booth. I’ll also be bringing along some brochures for the PostgreSQL conference. If you’re there, stop by.
Robert Watson has raised a few idea on how FreshSource can be used as a developer platform. These ideas are equally applicable to FreshPorts. See http://www.freshsource.org/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=33&t=33.
FreshSource/FreshPorts as a developer platform Read More »
There will be a PostgreSQL Conference in May 2007. I’ll definintely be there! I’m looking forward to this. It’s right after a BSD conference. There will be quite a few people attending both conferences. One trip, two conferences, a great time.
The PostgreSQL Conference Read More »
Today I noticed a problem with the FreshPorts email processing daemon. It’s not really a daemon. It’s a shell script. After a reboot, I noticed the script was not running. Trying the script by hand, I found this error message: .: missing filename This sample script duplicates the problem: #!/bin/sh while . do sleep 1
while loop in shell script fails under 6.2-prerelease Read More »
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
Virtual Categories are broken! Read More »
And today, for my first trick (yes, it is my first trick, but my second post today), I shall transform this URL: http://www.freshports.org/news/pan2/files.php?message_id=200605010349.k413nOGF019378@repoman.freebsd.org into http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=200605010349.k413nOGF019378@repoman.freebsd.org&category=news&port=pan2&files=yes Why? Because it is impolite to break existing URLs. It is far better to redirect them to the new improved content. Our documentation for today’s exercise shall be http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteRule. Our
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