FreshPorts had a cache clearing issue recently. It lingered. For a long time. It took me a while to figure it out. It turned out to be a Python 3 compatibility issue. In this post: PostgreSQL 12.1 FreeBSD 12.1 I will outline how database changes invoke external scripts asynchronously which then clear the cache. I […]
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I’ve noticed a log of sanity test failures related to devel/binutils lately. Every single commit. Issue 133 deals with that. Here, I plan to document what happened. FreshPorts has, since inception, worked off the commit emails. The incoming email is parsed and XML created. The XML is then used to update the database. I started
The slave ports for devel/binutils did not get deleted Read More »
XML can be tricky. XML plays a heavy role in FreshPorts. Since the early days, converting to XML then loading into the database has been a priority. This choice means the database-loading code doesn’t need to know much about the source of the data. It always means we can change the data source without modifying
Code point \u0005 is not a valid character in XML Read More »