Last night, after an initial failed attempt, I moved FreshPorts and FreshSource to the new webserver. Both websites use the same database, so it makes sense to keep them on the same server. When I first loaded up the FreshPorts database, I saw some errors that concerned me: NOTICE: ALTER TABLE / ADD PRIMARY KEY […]
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It was about a month ago that krion pointed out that when a port moves from one category to another, your watch list is left with the old port and it ignores the new port. For more details on this problem, please read my first post on this subject. I’ve coded up an initial solution
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There is a NEW! FreshPorts available. It looks pretty much like the old on, but there are a few differences that should stand out: Old NEW! CPU PII 800MHz P4 2.40GHz RAM 512 MB 1GB OS FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE Database PostgreSQL 7.4.7 PosgreSQL 8.1 NIC fxp sis There are many variables here. Not everything
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I’m heading out to ShmooCon 2006. I’m arriving in Washington DC on Wednesday the 11th, and departing on Sunday the 12th. I’m arriving early in case the weather closes in. Washington doesn’t cope with snow well. What they call a blizzard would shutdown the city for two days. In Ottawa, the same thing doesn’t affect
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A user recently asked if we could show the size of the port/package. Getting the size of the distfiles is relatively easy. It’s in the distinfo file. For slave ports, we already know the master port, so we get the information from there. It might also be nice to show the size of the package.
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Xride came up with a nice idea for FreshSource. I like it so much I added it to FreshPorts. He wanted a link to the basic commit message from the list of commits. Much like this link does. So I made that change. You should see the link within each commit. FWIW, that same change
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krion pointed out that the date added field on his watch list was bogus. I checked the code, and sure enough, it was using the wrong value. The code was displaying commit_log.date_added instead of ports.date_added. I fixed the code and moved it into production early this morning. cheers
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I’ve created myself an IPv6 tunnel. FreshPorts is now available via IPv6. Point your browser at http://pg8.freshports.org/. If you can’t get there, you’re probably not on IPv6. You should see a snapshot of FreshPorts taken on Fri, 23 Dec 2005. Comments here please!
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When I started writing FreshPorts (The Place For Ports) back in the late 1990’s, I was under the impression that a port had just one version. The current version. There is only one ports tree. There isn’t one ports tree for FreeBSD 4 and another for FreeBSD 5, and yet another for FreeBSD 6. There’s
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krion pointed out today that when a port moves, your watch list is not updated. In this case, the port in question is dns/libidn. It’s listed as version 0.6.0 at the above URL, but in his watch list, he sees version 0.5.20. I saw the problem immediately. On his watch list, the port is listed
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