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 […]
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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When I mentioned in the #postgresql channel that FreshPorts/FreshSource had moved to PostgreSQL, the first question was: where’s your Powered By PostgreSQL logo? My reply? At the bottom of the FreshPorts about page. Granted, those logos could be a little higher up on the page. But that’s not what prompted this post. Someone actually found
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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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