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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Tonight I found out that FreshSource is getting out of date. Xride told me that the display commit was no longer working. For example, http://www.freshsource.org/commit.php?message_id=200609292014.k8TKEV98041749@repoman.freebsd.org gives a blank page. Checking the web logs, I see the cause: [Fri Oct 25 02:59:35 2013] [error] [client 71.185.48.53] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function freshports_cvsweb_Revision_Link() in /usr/local/www/freshsource.org/www/commit.php
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The beta website is no longer updating. It was behind by 153 commits and rising. I suspect the poor old box, with just 2GB of RAM cannot keep up with the demands of frequent svn up, while being an imaps server and a mail server. It may be time to find a new location for
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I’m thinking of a status page. It will hold: Are incoming messages being processed? How many messages are in the incoming queue? How many messages are in the retry queue? How many messages have been processed this calendar day? Anything else you want to see?
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A recent post by Abbe in the Website Feedback forum indicates that the vuxml processing has a bit to be improved. When I looked, prod differed from beta and dev. This could be as simple as a missed processing of vuln.xml. I re-ran the script, and the marked commits on prod then agreed with dev
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