What’s in the pipeline, how it works, how it’s made…
One of my favorite FreeBSD features is security/vuxml – from it we get these great tools (provided by pkg): * pkg audit (what installed packages contain known vulnerabilities?) * /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/410.pkg-audit – pkg-audit for host and jails * /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/405.pkg-base-audit – same as above, but for base system I use the latter two command within my monitoring […]
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It has been 15 months since the last blog post about clearing out distfiles. It was time again today. This is still not scripted, however, that day may come. The steps were: [7:08 pro05 dvl ~] % ssh aws-1-ingress01 [11:09 aws-1-ingress01 dvl ~] % sudo service freshports stop Stopping freshports. Waiting for PIDS: 3073. [11:09
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It’s time to clear old distfiles. Based on Moving distfiles to a new filesystem & deleting unused distfiles, I did the following on the aws-1-ingress01 jail. In short: fetch index list DISTFILES used by index remove DISTFILES not used by index The commands: root@freshports:/usr/ports # make fetchindex /usr/bin/env fetch -am -o /usr/ports/INDEX-14.xz https://download.FreeBSD.org/ports/index/INDEX-14.xz /usr/ports/INDEX-14.xz 1864
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FreshPorts pulls down a lot of distfiles (the file distributed by the software author which contains the software). Much more than your average user. Every distfile for every commit is fetched. Let’s look at my private FreshPorts development instance: [13:18 dvl-ingress01 dvl /jails/freshports/usr/ports] % du -ch -d 0 distfiles 125G distfiles 125G total That’s 125GB.
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Today I updated the test ingress node of FreshPorts. Not long after, I was told by Nagios monitoring: I had a similar message comparing test to stage. Soon after, I saw this error in the logs: Oct 19 12:18:04 test-ingress01 dvl[12403]: FATAL eror with git-to-freshports-xml.py result: 1 – check git-delta.sh logs for more detail Looking
Today, the UI on the website was updated. The primary changes are to the home page and the date pages (i.e. lists of commits). I have purposely not cleared the cache. This should help you see the before and after images. For comparison, see today’s commits and the commits from Dec 16. This latest work
My thanks go out the AWS team who deal with the credits for open source projects. FreshPorts hit a big problem in Sep/Oct and I thought the project was going to have a non-trivial bill to pay. The main FreshPorts nodes are hosted on AWS – there are other nodes. Despite my own shortcomings (see
This was originally written in September 2018, but never published (for unknown reasons). I found it in the drafts section of the website today. In this post, you will see me change approach and not use a secondary table in one instance, but use multiple secondary tables in another. In one case, you will also
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I’m so very happy about recent changes to the website. It’s been a great day. I was volunteering at a flu shot clinic. A new coffee shop has opened up, and I was there before the clinic. After the clinic, it was walking the dog, then some serious changes to the the PostgreSQL queries which
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The front page of FreshPorts is about to change, slightly. At present, the front page contains only the the commits to the main branch of the FreeBSD. More precisely, it does not include: Commits to Mk/ or other similar non-port entities within the ports tree Commits to the quarterly branch (whatever the latest quarter is;
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