January 2014

What do you want out of FreshPorts? You want to know: What is available What version Any notes in UPGRADING Any vulnerabilities You want to know about this for HEAD and for RELENG_9_1_0. You want to know that on HEAD, sysutils/bacula-server is version 5.2.12_3, but on head, it’s 5.2.12. That’s important. That’s commit history. FreshPorts

I just realized (although, deep in the recesses of my innocent mind, I suspect I knew) that FreshPorts will require one repo for each branch. The email on the svn ports branches mailing list includes multiple branches. A quick glance around the archives finds me these branches: RELENG_9_1_0 RELENG_9_2_0 2014Q1 I know there will be

As mentioned in my previous post, if FreshPorts is to display commits from every branch, it is going to need one check-out of each branch of the ports tree. Tonight I started looking into that and hit a snag in an unexpected area: name length. I do most of my development work from within jails.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve made some progress towards supporting the branches for FreshPorts. Today, I started making the first code changes and I wanted to share that with you as I went along. Finding the messages FreshPorts processes commits by parsing the messages from the mailing list. I think it might be feasible