Author name: Dan Langille

I have 7 drives for sale: TZ89N-AV SCSI DLT 7000 tape drive. See my ebay sale.

The new virtual category docs was recently added. Interestingly enough, FreshPorts has a /docs/ directory, which directly conflics with this. As such, if you were to browe to http://www.freshports.org/docs/, you’d see this: Index of /docs Name Last modified Size Description Parent Directory – 404-for-virtual-pages.php 25-Oct-2007 12:57 8.2K Using 404 errors to serve up virtual pages

This is news to me (thanks Pav): $ make -V VALID_CATEGORIES accessibility afterstep arabic archivers astro audio benchmarks biology cad chinese comms converters databases deskutils devel docs dns editors elisp emulators finance french ftp games geography german gnome gnustep graphics hamradio haskell hebrew hungarian ipv6 irc japanese java kde kld korean lang linux lisp mail

Welcome to unemployment. What was ironic about today: At lunch, I dropped off a cheque to the car dealer for the car I’d picked up two Fridays ago. At 2pm, I was fired. DOH! Bummer. My resume. Thank you.

FreshPorts processes the cvs commit logs from the FreeBSD cvs-all mailing list. It parses these emails into XML. FreeBSD is in the process of moving to svn. This email will demonstrate of the differences between the two email formats and highlight any issues that might surround the move to processing svn instead of cvs logs.

One issue which has interested me for a while is moving databases from one server to another. My traditional approach involves taking down the website, dumping the database, copying the dump file, loading it up, and then changing the DNS to point to the new server. With the goal of minimizing downtime, I’ve been considering

I ran into an interesting problem while upgrading the production FreshPorts server. Specifically, this error: select PortsUpdatingAdd(E’20080708′::date, E’users of emulators/qemu-devel’, E’nox@FreeBSD.org’, EE’ The port has been updated to a 20080620 SVN snapshot, which uses the new (incompatible) kqemu-kmod-devel port that now also works for the 32 bit “qemu” executable on amd64. If you upgrade qemu-devel

This post started off as a database move but a software upgrade got in the way. I tried this move before, but failed to notice that the cvs-all subscription was not correct. This was a combination of DNS and subscription issues. They are now fixed. Let us try moving the database now. $ time pg_dump