I know we have a caching problem. I suspect I know the cause. The symptoms of the problem are: a commit has been processed by the system. the commit can be viewed via the URL /commit.php?message_id=MESSAGEID the commit can be seen via index.php or date.php the commit cannot be view on the port page I […]
Florent Thoumie mentioned today that FreshPorts should not supply package installation instructions for Restricted ports. Why? This extract from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk indicates why # RESTRICTED – Prevent the distribution of distfiles and packages to # the FTP sites or on CDROM (e.g. forbidden by license # considerations). If we are not allowed to distribution the package,
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Lars Engels had an idea. Why not have a place where you can download a port skeleton? You know, the files that make up a port (Makefile, pkg-plist, distinfo, etc). As Lars put it: It came to my mind when I tried out the Frenzy live cd yesterday. It does not have the iwi-firmware port
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I ran some tests today. Without caching, I got 5.36 transactions per second (tps). If commit history is cached, I get 7.25 tps. What actually happens in a transaction isn’t relevent. What is important is that by caching I get 35% more transaction per second. That is, the system performance increase by 35%. That’s pretty
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In addition to the port history caching which I mentioned previously, I recently implemented some changes which will make it easier to cache yet more data. Specifically, the port details (e.g short description, long description). I’ve been playing with benchmarks/siege to see how many transactions per second I can put through my development server. Then
Caching to disk, at least for ports, is now implemented. I didn’t plan to moved a new feature into production on the day before I leave for a conference, but it happened. If you notice that the website has not been updated after a port has been committed, please let me know. That will indicate
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Last week I took the car in for an oil change. I usually wait for the work to be done, and while waiting, I head over the road to a Perkins for some breakfast. While there, I usually do a bit of coding. It is actually a good environment for this. The place isn’t full
Spam is so annoying. It takes up so much of my time. I don’t want spammers posting here. Neither do you. This morning I found 60 posts waiting to be moderated. I’ve have enough of this crap. I have better things to do with my time. Moderating spam is not on the short list. Today
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Shaun Amott wrote in to tell me of a bug with the /usr/ports/UPDATING code. FreshPorts parses this file each time it is committed and loads the data into a table. When a port is displayed, any notes from UPDATING are displayed with that port. The purpose is to alert the reader to any potential instructions
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Alexander Botero-Lowry and I came up with a VERY good idea today. Search icons beside names. The BETA website has the icons added in already. Look at maintainer and committer. Once I finished, those icons will take you to the search page. That will get the list of ports maintained by that maintainer and a
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