Cydex suggested this one. Visit this commit and look at the the links to Makefile, distinfo, and pkg-plist. They each now contain a bookmark (e.g. #rev1.44). In addition, and something you may not have noticed, the icon to the left of the File name contains a link to the annotated version of that file revision. […]
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On August 9, Mark Linimon was talking about having users rank ports. The goal being to approximate a list of ‘key’ ports. I suggested allowing people to nominate their top N ports. And only N. They can change their selection at any time. It would be like a vote or poll, but you get to
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PostgreSQL is my database of choice. Any who has worked with commercial databases will find more in common with PostgreSQL than any other open source database. I moved to PostgreSQL for the transactions, the stored procecdures, and the relational integrity Sure, other databases have begun to catch up, but they still don’t have the polish
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Last night I discovered a caching bug related to vuxml processing. I fixed it. Today I realized the same issue affects processing of MOVED and UPDATING. Coded both of them today as well. Anyone got a MOVED or UPDATING commit just waiting to happen? ;) Ideally, I’d be able to find somewhere in the database
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Today I discovered and fixed two problems with VUXML processing. The cronjob that processed VUXML changes was commented out. The last time it had run was July 9th. Uncommenting the entry fixed that issue. The VUXML processing did not clear the cache. I wrote and testing that code just now. It’ll run in BETA for
I have good news. Not only I have returned from OSCON with 8 (eight) Raptor HDD in tow, but I made good use of the travel time to start coding some new features. What new features? Well! Filtering – I made a first crack at filtering on the way from Detroit to Portland, OR. It
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I’m asking for donations to purchase new hardware. Details are in this FreeBSD Diary article. Thank you.
Fundraising for new hardware Read More »
Royce Williams wrote in with a good suggestion about the watch list interface. When I read it, I immediately new it was a good idea. Royce said the existing icons for adding and removing a port from the watch list were not intuitive. He suggesting using as a base, and putting either a plus (+)
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It was not long ago that I announced the deprecation of the security notificaiton report. This report depended upon manually designating a particular commit as security-related within the FreshPorts database. A lack of resources to perform this task meant that the report was rarely sent out. I suggested that everyone install and use portaudit, which
Security Notices will return Read More »
On FreshPorts, virtual categories have no description. What are virtual cagtegories? Those categories that do not have a corresponding subdirectory in the ports tree. They are only used as secondary categories, and only for search purposes. FreshPorts can easily detect the creation of a new category, be it virtual or real (non-virtual). FreshPorts can grab
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