What’s in the pipeline, how it works, how it’s made…
I’m just documenting that the web server is missing some server stats. I noticed tonight that I had copied over the stats from the old server, but had not installed webalizer. I installed webalizer today.
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I’m just about to commit some changes that will greatly improve the URL parsing. I’m sure there’s more room for improvment, but this is a first step. Please read Parsing the URL for a bit of background. It now handles virtual categories correctly. In the process, I had to fix up a number other items
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It was nearly a month ago that krion pointed a watch list problem related to ports that move. I put a short term solution into BETA, which has just been moved to production. If you see a notice on your watch list and it indicates that one or more of your watched ports have moved.
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Kevin Fitzpatrick pointed out that the HTMLification code for FreshPorts was including a comma that wasn’t part of the URL. The comma in question is part of the Makefile for java/linux-sun-jdk14. In that file, you’ll find this: IGNORE: You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform (j2sdk-1_4_2_10-linux-i586.bin) from http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22&PartDetailId=j2sdk-1.4.2_10-oth-JPR&SiteId=JSC&TransactionId=noreg, place
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Virtual categories are nice, but they are hard to deal with. For starters, there is no simple place to get the description for a virtual category. For a physical category, you can do this: [dan@polo:~/ports/sysutils] $ make -V COMMENT System utilities [dan@polo:~/ports/sysutils] $ grep “System utilities” * Makefile: COMMENT = System utilities [dan@polo:~/ports/sysutils] $ But
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I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer. Please read my resume and contact me if you have any leads. Thank you.
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Someone wrote something about BSDCan. And it wasn’t me! I recommend reading Travel Tips for BSDCan 2006.
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When FreshPorts started, it used unique numbers to identify ports. This number was the primary key in the ports table. It was during a talk at a local LUG that I discovered how easy it would be to implement the solution you see now (e.g. sysutils/bacula-server. On the FreshPorts webserver, there is no sysutils directory.
I’m pretty sure I want to implement more caching on FreshPorts. My first thought was to write the files to disk and then remove them when they need updating. I recall a caching program that either works with PostgreSQL is is implemented in PostgreSQL. Putting to cache into a database would be interesting. It’s not
There is a NEW! FreshPorts available. It looks pretty much like the old on, but there are a few differences that should stand out: Old NEW! CPU PII 800MHz P4 2.40GHz RAM 512 MB 1GB OS FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE Database PostgreSQL 7.4.7 PosgreSQL 8.1 NIC fxp sis There are many variables here. Not everything
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