June 2020 – FreshPorts News

Setting up a FreeBSD ports git repo for FreshPorts usage

Leave a Comment / Development, git / Dan Langille

I’m documenting this as a go along because I’m sure I’ll be doing something that I later wish I had written down. Create the repo This creates a FreeBSD git-based port repo. echo git clone https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git /var/db/freshports/ports-jail/var/db/repos/PORTS-head-git | sudo su -l freshports The latest local commit This tells us the hash of the latest commit […]

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ZFS when you’re not doing ZFS

Leave a Comment / packages / Dan Langille

Recently, a new use of ZFS snapshots was introduced for a cache on FreshPorts. This approach involves creating a snapshot on the empty cache, then rolling back to that snapshot when the cache needs to be cleared. This idea came from this Tweet after much discussion on how to properly and safely delete directory contents

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git – the next FreshPorts project

Leave a Comment / Development, git / Dan Langille

git is coming to FreeBSD. The initial FreshPorts work for git started in September, then was abandoned for unknown reasons. It just fell off the RADAR. This week, it came back to my attention. References Some of the initial research was over Twitter. I’m saving those references here for future reference. The Tweet about the

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How often is a new repo available?

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How long does it take for a new repo to come online. FreshPorts does not have a lot of stats yet, but here is what we have today: Roughly, it’s every two days. The value in repo_date is taken from packagesite.txz as found at https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/ for example. What are inserts, updates, deletes? inserts: The number

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