Greetings from southern Florida. If you haven’t heard, I moved to Jupiter, Florida. Yes, PGCon and BSDCan will be in Ottawa in 2008. My relocation does not affect those events. It was this commit to print/gutenprint that caused the problem. You will notice that one file is touched twice by that commit. It is best […]
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Today was the first day of PGCon 2007. I sat in on the Performance tuturial. The room was overflowing, so we moved to a larger room. 58 people for a tutorial is pretty impressive. The connection to FreshPorts? I came up with an idea for solving the problem. Tonight gave me the opportunity. I invoked
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Some of you may be noticing HTML in the daily outgoing messages. I apologise for that. You must have seen the various notices that appear at the top of each FreshPorts webpage. At present, they look like this: Absolute BSD – $25 shipped – order yours now I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer/sysadmin.
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Repo copies are evil. What are repo copies? A repo copy occurs when you move things around in the repository manually. For example, this commit contains a lot of repo copy work. Ports are being moved from their current category to a new category, ports-mgmt. The original files in the CVS repository are manually moved
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FreshPorts often tries to help by creating HTML links. Most of the time, it gets this right. But for a recent port, it got it very wrong. Have a look at the PostgreSQL 8.2 page. Note the commits for 05 Feb 2007 and 09 Jan 2007. The code is taking what it thinks is a
Two users mentioned that that the news feeds had extra bits in them. In short, you were seeing &amp instead of just &. Fixed.
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I just noticed a bug in the slave ports, when Bacula Server, that excellent backup tool, was upgraded to 2.0.0. The slave port, Bacula Client, was still on the old version. I hope to fix this soon. As a precaution, I emptied the entire cache. 20:45 – fixed. It was a glob, or rather, lack
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Remember that wonderful new scheme for parsing URLs? Well, it broke virtual categories. That’s only because I forgot about them. Not because the schema is broken. It will still work, for any item in the tree. But virtual categories are not in the tree. I’ll change the new code to do some extra checks before
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Christian Ullrich found a problem with the Watch List updating pages. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been working on fixing it. I’ve been coding. He’s been verifying. Today we fixed it. The changes should go into production soon (if they aren’t already). The other thing he mentioned was sorting by last update. If there
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I got into trouble yesterday. Or rather, FreshPorts got into trouble because of me. It all centered around a new category called net perl5. I first notice the problem when I received an SQL error message: ERROR: null value in column “last_update” violates not-null constraint CONTEXT: SQL statement “INSERT INTO category_stats ( SELECT categories.id AS
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