What’s in the pipeline, how it works, how it’s made…
This is news to me (thanks Pav): $ make -V VALID_CATEGORIES accessibility afterstep arabic archivers astro audio benchmarks biology cad chinese comms converters databases deskutils devel docs dns editors elisp emulators finance french ftp games geography german gnome gnustep graphics hamradio haskell hebrew hungarian ipv6 irc japanese java kde kld korean lang linux lisp mail […]
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Welcome to unemployment. What was ironic about today: At lunch, I dropped off a cheque to the car dealer for the car I’d picked up two Fridays ago. At 2pm, I was fired. DOH! Bummer. My resume. Thank you.
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I think I’ve fixed a problem with caching of non-ports. I was looking for something to do tonight after I could not sleep. I found a old post about a this issue and figured I could fix it. The fix is in BETA. I’ll monitor it for a while before pushing it to production. Full
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Some new graphs were put on the beta site last night. They use a combination of jQuery and Flot to generate the graphs. All the backend code is php (but is quite ugly and small). The real meat of the important code is in the javascript. I’ve written an explanation of how the code works
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Vladimir Chukharev wrote in to mention a problem with the ports freeze. FreshPorts usually puts up a notice indicating a Ports Freeze is in effect when the freeze is inacted. This freeze is effected by making a special change to CVSROOT/approvers. FreshPorts looks for this change and sets a flag. The website notices this flag
FreshPorts processes the cvs commit logs from the FreeBSD cvs-all mailing list. It parses these emails into XML. FreeBSD is in the process of moving to svn. This email will demonstrate of the differences between the two email formats and highlight any issues that might surround the move to processing svn instead of cvs logs.
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One issue which has interested me for a while is moving databases from one server to another. My traditional approach involves taking down the website, dumping the database, copying the dump file, loading it up, and then changing the DNS to point to the new server. With the goal of minimizing downtime, I’ve been considering
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I ran into an interesting problem while upgrading the production FreshPorts server. Specifically, this error: select PortsUpdatingAdd(E’20080708′::date, E’users of emulators/qemu-devel’, E’nox@FreeBSD.org’, EE’ The port has been updated to a 20080620 SVN snapshot, which uses the new (incompatible) kqemu-kmod-devel port that now also works for the 32 bit “qemu” executable on amd64. If you upgrade qemu-devel
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This post started off as a database move but a software upgrade got in the way. I tried this move before, but failed to notice that the cvs-all subscription was not correct. This was a combination of DNS and subscription issues. They are now fixed. Let us try moving the database now. $ time pg_dump
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It’s time. FreshPorts has been running on the BETA server for quite some time. It is time to move back to production. This will involve a pg_dump, an rsync, another pg_dump, another rsync, a load, a change to DNS, and a redirect in Apache. We’ll see how it goes. The time is now 8:19 PM
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