The tracking of branches has turned out to be more involved than I thought. Many functions are already branch-aware and return / do the right thing. Tonight, I tried my recent idea of using head to get the slave ports for a given master port on a branch. So far, that works. The hard part […]
Branches – add a new port automagically Read More »
I used to think branches were simple when it came to FreshPorts, but I was wrong. Consider slave ports for example. If we get a commit for databases/mariadb100-server, we have to update the slave ports, but only the slave ports on the branch, not the slave ports on head. That sounds easy enough, but keep
Branches are simple, but more complex than head Read More »
Marie Helene asked a very good question: Does the “for run” dependency list only list direct dependencies, or depends of depends too? The answer is yes, only direct dependencies, but all the information is there to provide a complete list of all dependencies. The table looks like this: Here is the list of dependencies for
DEPENDS – direct or recursive? Read More »
This afternoon, Bert JW Regeer wished that FreshPorts “would show information from the quarterly branches too…”. I knew I had done some work on this and that there was a way to display branch information. I check the source code and found the ?branch= parameter, but there was nothing in the database for this branch.
Quarterly branches are available Read More »
See the issue raised here. On 1 April 2016, we had some large commits (you can see them all here). This ground the front page to a halt. But as you can see, that link above loads rather quickly. Why? At first, I thought it was because the date-based page was caching the results. I
Improving the home page query Read More »