October 5, 2014 – FreshPorts News

New categories

Leave a Comment / Bug fixes / Dan Langille

New categories in the FreeBSD ports tree do not come along often, but when they do, FreshPorts is ready to pull the details in and get the category name right. def ProcessCategoryNew(): syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_NOTICE, ‘We have a new category’) urllib.urlretrieve(“http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/www/en/ports/categories?rev=HEAD;content-type=text%2Fplain”, ‘/usr/websites/freshports.org/dynamic/caching/tmp/categories’); Touch(WWWENPortsCategoriesFlag) Touch(JOBWAITING) No. It’s not. That’s cvs. Won’t work. It will redirect to https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/en/ports/categories and […]

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cache invalidation

Today, kwm mentioned that http://www.freshports.org/Mk/bsd.port.mk was out of date, showing the most recent commit as back in March. My first concern was the system had stopped recording such commits. To check on that, I looked at https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/Mk/bsd.port.mk and searched my email for the most recent commit message. Extracting the message id from that email, I