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.

subversion vs git – in the database

I want to document some of the not-visible differences between a git commit and a subversion commit when in the database. subversion git id 808224 808303 message_id 202007091812.069IC6QK044004@repo.freebsd.org a1d2d5b40fba4186daf29b2b2e9ff2dd8b7d8039 message_date 2020-07-09 18:12:06+00 2020-07-09 18:12:06+00 message_subject svn commit: r541803 – in head/devel: . py-absl-py [null] date_added 2020-07-09 18:39:53.510006+00 2020-07-09 18:59:49.863092+00 commit_date 2020-07-09 18:12:06+00 2020-07-09 18:12:06+00 committer

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Manual initiation of git commit processing

This is another post in the FreshPorts-git series. Yesterday was good progress. This morning (at Sat Jul 4 13:05:10 UTC 2020) I manually initiated another import of commits from git. It looked like this: This created one XML file for each git commit. The files are dropped into the ~freshports/messages-queues/incoming directory. The freshports-git daemon (well,

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Setting up a FreeBSD ports git repo for FreshPorts usage

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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Tracking down Wide character in print at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/FreshPorts/vuxml_parsing.pm line 232

I noticed this today: root 58697 0.0 0.0 10680 2180 – IJ 12May20 0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/readproctitle service errors: …/site_perl/FreshPorts/vuxml_parsing.pm line 232, chunk 1.\nWide character in print at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/FreshPorts/vuxml_parsing.pm line 232, chunk 1.\nWide character in print at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/FreshPorts/vuxml_parsing.pm line 232, chunk 1.\nUndefined subroutine &FreshPorts::CommitterOptIn::RecordErrorDetails called at ./process_vuxml.pl line 124, chunk 1.\n I should monitor that process better.

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