In case you hadn’t noticed, FreshPorts is now running on the new server. With hardware donated by iXsystems and 3Ware, and colocation/bandwidth provided by SuperNews, the box has been installed for some time. Blame me for the delayed transition. BSDCan, PGCon, moving to Florida for a new job, getting laid off due to outsourcing, and […]
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Søren Straarup brought this up today. FreshSource does not link to the right place in CVSWEB for commits to CVSROOT. For example, look at this commit. If you click on the diff link, it goes to the wrong place. It goes to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/CVSROOT/modules.diff?r1=1.18319&r2=1.18318 instead of http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/CVSROOT-ports/modules.diff?r1=1.18319&r2=1.18318 After discussions with Simon Nielsen and is Søren Straarup,
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Greetings from southern Florida. If you haven’t heard, I moved to Jupiter, Florida. Yes, PGCon and BSDCan will be in Ottawa in 2008. My relocation does not affect those events. It was this commit to print/gutenprint that caused the problem. You will notice that one file is touched twice by that commit. It is best
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Today was the first day of PGCon 2007. I sat in on the Performance tuturial. The room was overflowing, so we moved to a larger room. 58 people for a tutorial is pretty impressive. The connection to FreshPorts? I came up with an idea for solving the problem. Tonight gave me the opportunity. I invoked
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The much-anticipated X.org 7.2 commit has occurred. Unfortunately, the commit is causing a deadlock on FreshPorts. The error message I see is: [36978]: [1-1] 2007-05-20 00:01:55.591 EDT freshports.org 36978 ERROR: deadlock detected [1-2] 2007-05-20 00:01:55.591 EDT freshports.org 36978 DETAIL: Process 36978 waits for ShareLock on transaction 15047015; blocked by [1-3] process 37015. [1-4] Process 37015
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My work (yes, I’m now employed) is looking at deploying servers to client sites. They aren’t so much servers as appliances. The boxes serve a distinct function, and not much else. Our hardware needs: between 2TB and 8TB of storage in a RAID configuration 1U or 2U case good reputation Our hardware support needs: reliable
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The deadline for voting has passed. The Candidates | The Contest Details The table holding the results is: freshports.org=# \d design_results Table “public.design_results” Column | Type | Modifiers ———+————–+————————————————————- id | integer | not null default nextval(‘design_results_id_seq’::regclass) user_id | integer | not null choice1 | character(1) | not null choice2 | character(1) | not null
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Some of you may be noticing HTML in the daily outgoing messages. I apologise for that. You must have seen the various notices that appear at the top of each FreshPorts webpage. At present, they look like this: Absolute BSD – $25 shipped – order yours now I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer/sysadmin.
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The candidates from the Design Contest are now available for review and voting. Vote early. Vote often. Enjoy.
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FreshSource has long has a tool for walking the source tree. By source tree, do not think src. Think ports, www, src, docs, everything that you can see through cvsweb. The screen shot you see is what FreshSource looks like on my laptop. I’m happy with this progress, which represents about two hours of work.
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