Site changes, new feature, etc.
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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This is where you’ll find all the news you want about FreshPorts. The first thing we need to do is make this site look like FreshPorts, not Word Press….