Over the past few weeks, I’ve made some progress towards supporting the branches for FreshPorts. Today, I started making the first code changes and I wanted to share that with you as I went along. Finding the messages FreshPorts processes commits by parsing the messages from the mailing list. I think it might be feasible […]
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Earlier today, I wrote about a fix which broke search. At the end of that post, I mentioned a few things which needed to be done to fix up the broken relationships. clean up the database add a foreign key, on delete set null trigger to find the right value when set null Let’s get
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Bernard emailed me, and Tim Stoddard posted in the forum about search not finding what it should find. I quickly agreed; it was wrong. Fortunately, it was a small fix. See also my follow-up post where I fixed the broken data. The problem The problem was searching for ports such as bird didn’t include that
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I recently wrote about a problem with FreshPorts not tracking changes by branch. I recently patched the dev system and things are looking better. The patch is: This change forces the code to look for an existing row in the system_branch_element_revision table, and if not found, add it in. I used this commit against news/trn4
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The other day, captcha broke. But a concerned user mentioned that he was able to create an account despite that. I tried and failed to reproduce the problem. Can you? Here are the steps he mentioned: I went to http://www.freshports.org/new-user.php Entered all my data without any captcha code entered and press “create account” Saw an
John Marino wrote in August to tell me about a problem with pkg-descr. He pointed out that new ports were not showing the contents of that file. He provided examples: devel/commit-patch devel/florist-gpl archivers/zip-ada On beta, the results were correct for devel/commit-patch, but devel/florist-gpl and archivers/zip-ada were wrong. I fixed the problem on dev, but then
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It’s pretty easy to say that there’s just one branch for the FreeBSD ports tree. And it’s not really a branch at all. Commits were done to HEAD, and branches were ignored. That has recently changed. The FreeBSD ports tree will be branched every three months and commits to that branch will be tightly controlled.
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Back in 2007, perhaps earlier, I wrote a Python script which listens for various PostgreSQL events. In particular, this script will invalidate the cache for a port when it is updated. There are several other such tasks, such as the creation of a new category. When the commit processing daemon (freshports) detects that a new
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This article was originally written in September 2012, but never published. I’m publishing it today, much later than expected. I started looking at how to create these new directories as mentioned yesterday. This starts the process: $ psql freshports.org psql (9.0.8, server 9.0.9) Type “help” for help. freshports.org=# select Element_Add(‘/base/head’, ‘D’); element_add ————- 453742 (1
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As brooks@ pointed out recently, the list of ports under ‘This ports is required by’ includes deleted ports. Brooks is trying to kill off devel/llvm and lang/clang in their current form. However, devel/llvm shows that lang/copper and lang/ldc-devel depend on it, but those two ports have been deleted. This should be rather straight foreword. I’ll
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