Ports come and go. Sometimes they come back. Take a recent commit on 1 July against editors/ved (and others). This port was created on 01 Jan 2001 and removed on 15 May 2014 because it used the deprecated smake. The 1 July 2021 commit brought it back. There was a problem. Here is the page […]
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Today, FreshPorts broke. No commits were being processed. nullfs mounts were disappearing. No idea why. Let’s follow the clues. All times are local to me (Philadelphia). 12:46 pm Rene contacted me on IRC, presumably about a failed sanity test I had seen earlier in the day: You can look at Rene’s commit. Looking back, Rene’s
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Recently, I’ve been adding more and more file content into the database, mostly because it’s useful. For example, we add the contents of the distinfo, because that information is useful. Next, it was pkg-plist, and before I was done that, someone suggested added in the Makefile. Neither pkg-plist nor Makefile will be perfect: Not all
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When I went looking for commands to convert to the new jail strategy, I failed to find two. I have remedied that oversight now. make showconfig This command extracts the configuration items from the port. Like all the other scripts, it is fairly straight forward. The following is from make-showconfig.sh: make master-sites-all This command extracts
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The jail approach mentioned in previous articles has been implemented on the dev system. It took about 4 hours of coding this afternoon. The setup script I spent some time today gathering together the stuff I’d mentioned in the two previous posts on this topic. The result is a one-line command which will create a
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Recently, I wrote about using a jail to get better results. Today, I’m altering the scripts so they make use of this jail. For the most part, this will involve the creation of scripts that will run in the jail and duplicate the functionality of the existing FreshPorts code. What needs to be changed? I’m
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