Every port has one primary category. This is the directory under which the port can be found. For example. the primary category for sysutils/bacula-server is sysutils. The primary category is always a physical directory on disk within the ports tree. A port can reside within more than one category. For example, net/pear-Net_SMTP has two secondary […]
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I recently discovered that for some pathnames, the URL is incorrect. For an example, look at http://www.freshports.org/japanese/im-ja/files/patch-src_xim_Makefile.in. Click on the first file listed there: devel/gdb6/files/patch-i386%nm-fbsd64.h The URL should be http://www.freshports.org/devel/gdb6/files/patch-i386%25nm-fbsd64.h. That is, the embedded % should appear in the URL as %25, which is the hexadecimal value for a percent-sign. A simple solution, using PHP,
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When is a port not a port? When it was deleted before the ports_categories table was introduced. I noticed that some long-deleted ports were not displaying correctly. For example: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/cdrecord/ It was displaying as a non-port, but it clearly was a port, although deleted. I tracked the problem down to this stored procedure: CREATE OR
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