BSDCan Travel Tips
Someone wrote something about BSDCan. And it wasn’t me! I recommend reading Travel Tips for BSDCan 2006.
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Development
What’s in the pipeline, how it works, how it’s made…
Parsing the URL
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.
Yet more caching
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
The NEW! FreshPorts
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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A ShmooCon I will go
I’m heading out to ShmooCon 2006. I’m arriving in Washington DC on Wednesday the 11th, and departing on Sunday the 12th. I’m arriving early in case the weather closes in. Washington doesn’t cope with snow well. What they call a blizzard would shutdown the city for two days. In Ottawa, the same thing doesn’t affect
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How much is that distfile in the port?
A user recently asked if we could show the size of the port/package. Getting the size of the distfiles is relatively easy. It’s in the distinfo file. For slave ports, we already know the master port, so we get the information from there. It might also be nice to show the size of the package.
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FreshPorts on PostgreSQL 8 and IPv6
I’ve created myself an IPv6 tunnel. FreshPorts is now available via IPv6. Point your browser at http://pg8.freshports.org/. If you can’t get there, you’re probably not on IPv6. You should see a snapshot of FreshPorts taken on Fri, 23 Dec 2005. Comments here please!
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A port can have more than one version
When I started writing FreshPorts (The Place For Ports) back in the late 1990’s, I was under the impression that a port had just one version. The current version. There is only one ports tree. There isn’t one ports tree for FreeBSD 4 and another for FreeBSD 5, and yet another for FreeBSD 6. There’s
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When a port moves, your watch list is not updated
krion pointed out today that when a port moves, your watch list is not updated. In this case, the port in question is dns/libidn. It’s listed as version 0.6.0 at the above URL, but in his watch list, he sees version 0.5.20. I saw the problem immediately. On his watch list, the port is listed
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Heard of portcvsweb?
If you have installed portupgrade, then you have portcvsweb. What is portcvsweb? Here’s a bit from the man page: portcvsweb — a tool to instantly browse a history via CVSweb That’s nice! Then, this morning, I thought about integrating this with FreshPorts. So I can up with this little patch: [dan@bast:~/bin] $ diff -ru /usr/local/sbin/portcvsweb
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