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XML::Writer upgrade causes fatal error

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, Perl / Dan Langille

I recently upgraded a non-public FreshPorts server from FreeBSD 8.2 to FreeBSD 8.4 using freebsd-update(8). As part of that process, I refreshed all the installed third-party applications via portupgrade(1). After this process was completed, I started noticing these errors: Use of uninitialized value $newOutput in string eq at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/XML/Writer.pm line 473, line 109. What port […]

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subversion upgrade causes commit processing problems

Leave a Comment / Development / Dan Langille

I upgraded my development copy of FreshPorts and ran into a problem. I kept seeing this in the logs: Jun 26 11:30:15 ngaio FreshPorts[37555]: sleeping after svn up failed for (/wdc/dan/PORTS-SVN ” 321793) Jun 26 11:34:25 ngaio FreshPorts[38219]: sleeping after svn up failed for (/wdc/dan/PORTS-SVN ” 321794) Jun 26 11:02:09 ngaio FreshPorts[30361]: sleeping after svn

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Fixing ETag and honoring Last-Modified

Leave a Comment / Development / Dan Langille

After a little bit of work, prompted by koobs, I’ve made the following code changes. Lines 8-10 added a time value to the top of the page. This was intended to let the user know when they last refreshed this page. Lines 18-20 let me know how long it took to generate a given page.

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Fixing the pkg-descr problem

Leave a Comment / Development / Dan Langille

It’s one thing to identify a bug. It’s another to clean up the data corrupted by that bug. Fortunately, FreshPorts takes its data from the FreeBSD ports tree. This makes it rather straight forward to clean up most data issues; you just refresh the database from the ports tree. Case in point: a recently found

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Problem with long descriptions

Leave a Comment / Bug fixes, jail / Dan Langille

This just came to my attention. The processing of pkg-descr since we moved to using a jail-based solution is wrong. The function which reads and processes the contents of pkg-descr is not using the jail to read the file. I’ll fix the bug soon, and refresh all commits which touched pkg-descr. Noted by koobs with

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etag

Leave a Comment / Bug fixes, Development / Dan Langille

koobs mentioned I need to look at etag. See http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freshports.org%2Fsecurity%2Fpy-pycrypto%2F

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The animated bug is gone

1 Comment / Development / Dan Langille

For some time, the website has had an animated bug. This was originally introduced to the development website as a visual clue for myself. It escaped into the wild through a commit. Today I’m fixing that mistake by making the image a configuration option of the website in question. The diff for this change is:

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committer isn’t always user name

Leave a Comment / Bug fixes / Dan Langille

The problem Sometimes the data in a field changes over time. Or rather, what you expect to appear in the field changes. Case in point, the committer field in a commit email is not always the user id of the committer. Sometimes it contains spurious characters. This is one of the classic problems associated with

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Production now using chroot

Leave a Comment / Bug fixes, jail / Dan Langille

Earlier today I run cvsup on the main website and pulled down the code for running make -V in a ‘jailed’ environment. It’s not actually a jail; it’s more of a chroot. You can read up on previous jail posts first, but the idea came from Ryan Steinmetz (zi@). I found the idea incredibly simple

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svnup

Leave a Comment / Development / Dan Langille

I should have a look at net/svnup and see if it’s better for FreshPorts than svn.

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