I think the work to move to full pathnames is proceeding well. I created another website, gelt.freshports.org, and I’m doing all the work over there. What I learn and the code changes will eventually be applied to the other websites. The differences should be subtle, and barely noticeable. Most of the changes are internal. Compare […]
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Before the last post was published, I forgot to add in the fix for the pathname problem. freshports.org=# select ElementPathnameUpdateChildren(453745); It run. A long time. I let it run. For hours. About 16 hours. Then I killed it. I checked the procedure. It made sense. Then I checked the update statement: freshports.org=# explain analyse UPDATE
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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 row) freshports.org=# select Element_Add(‘/doc/head’, ‘D’); element_add ————- 453743 (1 row) freshports.org=# select Element_Add(‘/ports/head’, ‘D’); element_add ————- 0 (1 row)
Creating the new repo base directories Read More »
We learn as we go. We create new designs based on past experiences and knowledge to date. Back when FreshPorts started, we catered only for ports. Now we cover the ports and src trees. Now that we are on svn, we can do much more than when on cvs. One change I would like to
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Wesley Shields (wxs@) wrote in to point out that the commits for Mk/bsd.sites.mk where not showing up correctly. Not sure if you know about this or not but it appears that (at least) Mk/bsd.sites.mk is not being properly updated on freshports since August 5. I compared these two URLS: http://www.freshports.org/Mk/bsd.sites.mk http://dev.freshports.org/Mk/bsd.sites.mk Yep. The full commits
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FreshPorts has a web page caching issue for all non-port commits. This also affects commits in the ports tree that do not touch a port. e.g. Mk, Tools, etc. I hope to fix it later this week. dev does not have this problem. beta & www do.
HEAD UP: caching problems Read More »
Hmmm, I thought with my recent changes to use ‘svn up -r XXX’ would solve the problem of repo-copies. Why are repo-copies a problem for FreshPorts? FreshPorts knows only about the files mentioned in a commit. With repo-copies, a whole directory is moved, but the files in that directory are not mentioned in the commit.
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Every port has one primary category. This is the directory under which the port can be found. For example. the primary category for sysutils/bacula-server is sysutils. The primary category is always a physical directory on disk within the ports tree. A port can reside within more than one category. For example, net/pear-Net_SMTP has two secondary
CATEGORIES does not contain the primary category Read More »
I recently discovered that for some pathnames, the URL is incorrect. For an example, look at http://www.freshports.org/japanese/im-ja/files/patch-src_xim_Makefile.in. Click on the first file listed there: devel/gdb6/files/patch-i386%nm-fbsd64.h The URL should be http://www.freshports.org/devel/gdb6/files/patch-i386%25nm-fbsd64.h. That is, the embedded % should appear in the URL as %25, which is the hexadecimal value for a percent-sign. A simple solution, using PHP,
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When is a port not a port? When it was deleted before the ports_categories table was introduced. I noticed that some long-deleted ports were not displaying correctly. For example: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/cdrecord/ It was displaying as a non-port, but it clearly was a port, although deleted. I tracked the problem down to this stored procedure: CREATE OR
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