Spam is so annoying. It takes up so much of my time. I don’t want spammers posting here. Neither do you. This morning I found 60 posts waiting to be moderated. I’ve have enough of this crap. I have better things to do with my time. Moderating spam is not on the short list. Today […]
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Shaun Amott wrote in to tell me of a bug with the /usr/ports/UPDATING code. FreshPorts parses this file each time it is committed and loads the data into a table. When a port is displayed, any notes from UPDATING are displayed with that port. The purpose is to alert the reader to any potential instructions
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Alexander Botero-Lowry and I came up with a VERY good idea today. Search icons beside names. The BETA website has the icons added in already. Look at maintainer and committer. Once I finished, those icons will take you to the search page. That will get the list of ports maintained by that maintainer and a
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Folks! Yes, I’m a big fan of Bacula. It’s a great backup solution. I recently became the port maintainer. I’d like to point out a few recent changes. Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING with regards to rcNG scripts. You must now add entries to /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local to allow the Bacula daemons to start. You must read
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I noticed this today. First, I apologise for highlighting the errors of others, but it is relevant to the topic. FreshPorts has a number of sanity tests that it performs on each commit to a port. It does simple things like: make -V PORTVERSION If an error occurs during any sanity test, FreshPorts records and
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I do not usually announce new ports here. But seeing as I am the maintainer of the new ports, I will take liberties. I have been using a great piece of backup software for about two years. Lately, I’ve been submitting updates for the port. Last week, a development version of the port was committed
I’m just documenting that the web server is missing some server stats. I noticed tonight that I had copied over the stats from the old server, but had not installed webalizer. I installed webalizer today.
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Yes, that’s right. You heard me. mail != japanese. Stefan Walter just wrote me to point out that http://www.freshports.org/mail/squirrelmail/ was incorrectly displaying the content from japanese/squirrelmail. At first, I was thinking physical categories versus virtual categories. I was wrong. It was a good old SQL error. I recently introduced Better URL Parsing. I suggest that
I’m just about to commit some changes that will greatly improve the URL parsing. I’m sure there’s more room for improvment, but this is a first step. Please read Parsing the URL for a bit of background. It now handles virtual categories correctly. In the process, I had to fix up a number other items
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It was nearly a month ago that krion pointed a watch list problem related to ports that move. I put a short term solution into BETA, which has just been moved to production. If you see a notice on your watch list and it indicates that one or more of your watched ports have moved.
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