What’s in the pipeline, how it works, how it’s made…
On FreshPorts, virtual categories have no description. What are virtual cagtegories? Those categories that do not have a corresponding subdirectory in the ports tree. They are only used as secondary categories, and only for search purposes. FreshPorts can easily detect the creation of a new category, be it virtual or real (non-virtual). FreshPorts can grab […]
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The menu options on the left hand side of the page have changed. A “Watch List” grouping has been added, and links from other sections have been moved here. Putting all the watch list links in one box just makese sense. An added benefit: because they are all in one box, the link names can
I’m in Charlottetown today, and waiting for a meeting to finish (I’m not in that meeting), so I thought I’d take the time to post this about newsfeeds. FreshPorts now has more newsfeeds in more formats than you could ever possibly want or need. We now have 9 formats, all available from one central location.
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I’ve managed to fix the caching problem previously mentioned. I think I solved it the night I wrote about it, but I’m only writing about it now. The code has been in BETA since then and has just moved into production. The log output now looks more like this: Observer has noticed that processing has
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I ran some tests today. Without caching, I got 5.36 transactions per second (tps). If commit history is cached, I get 7.25 tps. What actually happens in a transaction isn’t relevent. What is important is that by caching I get 35% more transaction per second. That is, the system performance increase by 35%. That’s pretty
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In addition to the port history caching which I mentioned previously, I recently implemented some changes which will make it easier to cache yet more data. Specifically, the port details (e.g short description, long description). I’ve been playing with benchmarks/siege to see how many transactions per second I can put through my development server. Then
Caching to disk, at least for ports, is now implemented. I didn’t plan to moved a new feature into production on the day before I leave for a conference, but it happened. If you notice that the website has not been updated after a port has been committed, please let me know. That will indicate
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Last week I took the car in for an oil change. I usually wait for the work to be done, and while waiting, I head over the road to a Perkins for some breakfast. While there, I usually do a bit of coding. It is actually a good environment for this. The place isn’t full
Shaun Amott wrote in to tell me of a bug with the /usr/ports/UPDATING code. FreshPorts parses this file each time it is committed and loads the data into a table. When a port is displayed, any notes from UPDATING are displayed with that port. The purpose is to alert the reader to any potential instructions
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Alexander Botero-Lowry and I came up with a VERY good idea today. Search icons beside names. The BETA website has the icons added in already. Look at maintainer and committer. Once I finished, those icons will take you to the search page. That will get the list of ports maintained by that maintainer and a
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