It’s pretty easy to say that there’s just one branch for the FreeBSD ports tree. And it’s not really a branch at all. Commits were done to HEAD, and branches were ignored. That has recently changed. The FreeBSD ports tree will be branched every three months and commits to that branch will be tightly controlled. […]
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Back in 2007, perhaps earlier, I wrote a Python script which listens for various PostgreSQL events. In particular, this script will invalidate the cache for a port when it is updated. There are several other such tasks, such as the creation of a new category. When the commit processing daemon (freshports) detects that a new
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This article was originally written in September 2012, but never published. I’m publishing it today, much later than expected. I started looking at how to create these new directories as mentioned yesterday. This starts the process: $ psql freshports.org psql (9.0.8, server 9.0.9) Type “help” for help. freshports.org=# select Element_Add(‘/base/head’, ‘D’); element_add ————- 453742 (1
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