A great feature of FreshPorts is the ability to see all the ports which are dependent upon a given port. For example, it allows you to see what ports depend upon security/polarssl. This list is stored in a the port_dependencies table, which looks like this: This information is gathered when a port is updated. The […]
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FreshPorts is a tender beast. It is both massive and sensitive. One example of that sensitivity came to light today. Jeffrey Bouquet wrote in to tell me of a problem with paths on FreshSource (our sister website, which displays more, but less). The problem has been corrected, but I took screen shots to illustrate this
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I noticed a few days ago: http://dev.freshports.org/ is out of date with respect to vuxml. That’s because the input processing for that website takes place in one jail, and the website (the output) takes places in another jail. There is no way for one to tell the other that something is ready for processing. This
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mandree reported a problem with security/openvpn-auth-ldap. Looking in the database: Looking at the database, the webpage is displaying what is there: Let’s looking at that commit in the database: OK, that’s not the commit which changed the BROKEN flag. Let’s look at that commit: The the date_added fields? These commits were processed out of order.
Today I noticed a bug with the recently added Fetch, Patch, and Extract dependencies. The are correctly displayed on the port page, but not on the dependent port page. The problem If you look at sysutils/libchk, you will see lang/ruby20 listed under Extract dependencies. However, at lang/ruby20, there is no mention of Patch, Fetch, or
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FreshPorts is not magic. It grabs the stuff it needs by running make -V with a number of parameters. New fields are added from time to time, usually at the prompting of a user. Recently, the following fields were added to the dev website: FETCH_DEPENDS PATCH_DEPENDS EXTRACT_DEPENDS USES More information on these fields can be
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I noticed the server load was high. I saw that several instances of search by date where still running. Looking at the query in question: The analysis for this query is available at http://explain.depesz.com/s/uCT I redesigned the query to make use of explicit JOINs: The analysis for that query is at http://explain.depesz.com/s/p3wn. I’ll let readers
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New categories in the FreeBSD ports tree do not come along often, but when they do, FreshPorts is ready to pull the details in and get the category name right. def ProcessCategoryNew(): syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_NOTICE, ‘We have a new category’) urllib.urlretrieve(“http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/www/en/ports/categories?rev=HEAD;content-type=text%2Fplain”, ‘/usr/websites/freshports.org/dynamic/caching/tmp/categories’); Touch(WWWENPortsCategoriesFlag) Touch(JOBWAITING) No. It’s not. That’s cvs. Won’t work. It will redirect to https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/en/ports/categories and
Today, kwm mentioned that http://www.freshports.org/Mk/bsd.port.mk was out of date, showing the most recent commit as back in March. My first concern was the system had stopped recording such commits. To check on that, I looked at https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/Mk/bsd.port.mk and searched my email for the most recent commit message. Extracting the message id from that email, I
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John Marino wrote in to mention that the list of latest vulnerabilities (see the right hand column of the
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