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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Kevin Fitzpatrick pointed out that the HTMLification code for FreshPorts was including a comma that wasn’t part of the URL. The comma in question is part of the Makefile for java/linux-sun-jdk14. In that file, you’ll find this: IGNORE: You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform (j2sdk-1_4_2_10-linux-i586.bin) from http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22&PartDetailId=j2sdk-1.4.2_10-oth-JPR&SiteId=JSC&TransactionId=noreg, place
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Virtual categories are nice, but they are hard to deal with. For starters, there is no simple place to get the description for a virtual category. For a physical category, you can do this: [dan@polo:~/ports/sysutils] $ make -V COMMENT System utilities [dan@polo:~/ports/sysutils] $ grep “System utilities” * Makefile: COMMENT = System utilities [dan@polo:~/ports/sysutils] $ But
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I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer. Please read my resume and contact me if you have any leads. Thank you.
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