FreshPorts is not magic. It grabs the stuff it needs by running make -V with a number of parameters. New fields are added from time to time, usually at the prompting of a user. Recently, the following fields were added to the dev website: FETCH_DEPENDS PATCH_DEPENDS EXTRACT_DEPENDS USES More information on these fields can be […]
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New categories in the FreeBSD ports tree do not come along often, but when they do, FreshPorts is ready to pull the details in and get the category name right. def ProcessCategoryNew(): syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_NOTICE, ‘We have a new category’) urllib.urlretrieve(“http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/www/en/ports/categories?rev=HEAD;content-type=text%2Fplain”, ‘/usr/websites/freshports.org/dynamic/caching/tmp/categories’); Touch(WWWENPortsCategoriesFlag) Touch(JOBWAITING) No. It’s not. That’s cvs. Won’t work. It will redirect to https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/en/ports/categories and
Today, kwm mentioned that http://www.freshports.org/Mk/bsd.port.mk was out of date, showing the most recent commit as back in March. My first concern was the system had stopped recording such commits. To check on that, I looked at https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/Mk/bsd.port.mk and searched my email for the most recent commit message. Extracting the message id from that email, I
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John Marino wrote in to mention that the list of latest vulnerabilities (see the right hand column of the
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FreshPorts processes commits via email. That is, email coming in from the mailing list are received by FreshPorts, parsed, and the resulting data loaded into the database. Today a problem arose. I received these error messages: This List-Id/Message-Id combination is not known to this script. List-Id=’SVN commit messages for the ports tree for head ‘
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A mail error is breaking many things, including the daily reports and sanity test failures. This problem is only on production, not on dev. The error is: could not open Mail::Sender. from=’FreshPorts Sanity Daemon <FreshPorts@example.org>’ to=’kwm@example.org’ subject=’FreshPorts sanity checking’ errorcode=’-24′ errormsg=’IO::Socket::SSL- >start_SSL failed: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed’ I
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Yesterday I tweeted that FreshPorts now directs you to bugs.freebsd.org for a PR. I noticed the URL typo but I was headed to bed. Today, @FreeBSDHelp told me that links involving a category were wrong. Here’s the patch: The first half fixed the case for ports/1234 etc. The second half fixes: PR 1234, 123, and
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Bernard emailed me, and Tim Stoddard posted in the forum about search not finding what it should find. I quickly agreed; it was wrong. Fortunately, it was a small fix. See also my follow-up post where I fixed the broken data. The problem The problem was searching for ports such as bird didn’t include that
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Back in 2007, perhaps earlier, I wrote a Python script which listens for various PostgreSQL events. In particular, this script will invalidate the cache for a port when it is updated. There are several other such tasks, such as the creation of a new category. When the commit processing daemon (freshports) detects that a new
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Tonight I found out that FreshSource is getting out of date. Xride told me that the display commit was no longer working. For example, http://www.freshsource.org/commit.php?message_id=200609292014.k8TKEV98041749@repoman.freebsd.org gives a blank page. Checking the web logs, I see the cause: [Fri Oct 25 02:59:35 2013] [error] [client 71.185.48.53] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function freshports_cvsweb_Revision_Link() in /usr/local/www/freshsource.org/www/commit.php
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