Author name: Dan Langille

I've been playing with Open Source software, starting with FreeBSD, since New Zealand Post installed DSL on my street in 1998. From there, I started writing at The FreeBSD Diary, moving my work here after I discovered WordPress. Along the way, I started the BSDCan and PGCon conferences. I slowly moved from software development into full time systems administration and now work for very-well known company who has been a big force in the security industry.

The committer field is not always an email address

This issue was brought to my attention by wxs (Wesley Shields). The issue is evident at http://www.freshports.org/graphs2.php. When you get there, click on click on Commits Over Time by Committer and then wait for the page to load. Scroll down to the D’s. There you’ll see a few committers suffixed with ‘(ports committer)’. Looking in

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Doing commits in the correct order

Lately, I’ve been thinking and writing about how to list ports that depend upon this port. Today, another special situation arose: doing commits out of order. Case in question: this commit support for databases/php5-sqlite3 to lang/php5-extensions. The lang/php5-extensions commit was at 15:52:14. However, databases/php5-sqlite3 was not created until 15:54:29. I am not sure how to

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Storing dates in date fields

From time to time, ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml gets a date field containing an invalid date. FreshPorts stores these entries in a table that looks like this: freshports.org=# \d vuxml Table “public.vuxml” Column | Type | Modifiers —————-+————–+—————————————————- id | integer | not null default nextval(‘vuxml_id_seq’::regclass) vid | text | not null topic | text | not null

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