Author name: Dan Langille

I've been playing with Open Source software, starting with FreeBSD, since New Zealand Post installed DSL on my street in 1998. From there, I started writing at The FreeBSD Diary, moving my work here after I discovered WordPress. Along the way, I started the BSDCan and PGCon conferences. I slowly moved from software development into full time systems administration and now work for very-well known company who has been a big force in the security industry.

Deploying freshports-www-2.16.1

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freshports-www-2.16.1 requires some database changes. This post outlines the update on one host. Stop commit processing [14:59 stage-ingress01 dvl ~] % sudo service freshports stop Stopping freshports. Waiting for PIDS: 26340. Add the new ports.pkgversion column [14:52 pg01 dvl ~/src/freshports-database-schema] % psql freshports.stage psql (18.6) Type “help” for help. freshports.stage=# begin; BEGIN freshports.stage=*# \i updates-2026-09-28-pkgversion.ddl

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p5-freshports-scripts changes for 2.3.0

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p5-freshports-scripts is being updated to 2.3.0 – this post outlines the changes. See also p5-freshports-modules changes for 2.3.0 FreshPorts now checks its own port versions against the ports INDEX every night, and refreshes the ports which have drifted. That is almost all of this release. It also starts recording PKGVERSION from make, because composing a

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Index comparison – deployment notes

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These are the deployment notes for the INDEX comparison feature. This paragraph will be updated with the deployment dates as it moves through test, stage, and production. The following was composed by Claude. FreshPorts now checks its own port versions against the ports INDEX every night, and refreshes the ports which have drifted. Getting there

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vuxml.php escaping and the + in package names (#680)

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The following outlines some changes set to be deployed soon. I will modify this paragraph to the past tense after deployment. The following was composed by Claude. Two fixes to freshports-www, both merged to main and tested on dvl.freshports.org. The three #598 dark-mode commits that were merged with them are included too. Escape request and

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