MySQL bought. PostgreSQL not for sale.
A very key point in this article. Product vs project. Read: http://people.planetpostgresql.org/greg/index.php?/archives/120-Postgres-is-not-for-sale.html
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Configuration options – showconfig
When people ask me about packages versus ports, the one main advantage of ports over packages is the ability to set the configuration options. To set the configuration options for a given port, issue this command: make config Configuration options are stored in /var/db/ports. For example, the options for sysutils/bacula-server are: $ less /var/db/ports/bacula-server/options #
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Out of date ports tree
Today I noticed a problem with my development machine. It has been in storage for about a month. Yesterday it started processing FreshPorts emails again. Overnight, I noticed a strange error which I could not follow: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dec 31 20:33:11 ngaio FreshPorts[93781]: error executing make command for sysutils/rsyslog-mysql: This command (FreshPorts code
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Bounty for Flash9 in Opera in FreeBSD
Want $200? Free admission to BSDCan? And tutorials? Read this: http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html
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vuxml issue – vulnx.txt did not contain UTF-8
A few days ago, I noticed portaudit telling me about a few things that needed to be updated: # portaudit Affected package: rubygem-rails-1.2.3 Type of problem: rubygem-rails — session-fixation vulnerability. Reference: <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/30acb8ae-9d46-11dc-9114-001c2514716c.html> Affected package: rubygem-rails-1.2.3 Type of problem: rubygem-rails — JSON XSS vulnerability. Reference: <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/44fb0302-9d38-11dc-9114-001c2514716c.html> Affected package: rubygem-activesupport-1.4.2 Type of problem: rubygem-rails — JSON XSS
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MSNPTC/1.0
MSNPTC/1.0 appears to be a poorly written spider bot. It has no concept of distributing requests. I am not the only person that thinks this: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/2845.htm http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/details/4800/index.html http://boardreader.com/t/Spiders_Crawlers_509179/MSNPTC_1_0_2849.html Let me demonstrate with an example: $ grep -c “MSNPTC/1.0” freshports.org-access.log 1975 $ grep “MSNPTC/1.0” freshports.org-access.log | head -1 219.142.53.25 – – [01/Nov/2007:16:52:00 -0400] “GET /login.php?origin=%2Fcommit.php%3Fcategory%3Dwww %26port%3Deventum%26files%3Dyes%26message_id
Checking archives for missing messages
FreshPorts is pretty good about not missing commits. It depends exclusively upon the cvs-all mailing list. If the message doesn’t arrive, it doesn’t get into FreshPorts. In the interests of increasing the complexity of FreshPorts, I’d like to validate the database against the cvs-all archives. Each commit generates one email message. Each email has a
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Sanity test failure reports no problem
Late yesterday, I noticed a couple of sanity test failures. What was interesting about these reports was the lack of an error message. I emailed the committer to let them know I was looking into it. There were two failures. The first against devel/aunit; the second against devel/florist-gpl. By the time you read this, the
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The RAM shortage fix
Here is the patch I just comitted which reduces the amount of RAM consumed. [dan@ngaio:/usr/websites/freshports.org/classes] $ cvs di -ub display_commit.php Index: display_commit.php =================================================================== RCS file: /home/repositories/freshports-1/classes/display_commit.php,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -b -r1.8 display_commit.php — display_commit.php 10 Jul 2007 11:39:07 -0000 1.8 +++ display_commit.php 22 Oct 2007 17:22:23 -0000 @@ -87,19 +87,16 @@ $i=0; $GlobalHideLastChange
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