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git and svn handle copy differently

As a sanity check, there are several diffs to compare devgit.freshports.org with dev.freshports.org and sometimes they detect a false positive. Case in point, a recent commit to Code_Aster: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=556349 https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/d23fb94b8640d1c9d38c3cafc69c89ed4fe11939 In the svnweb link, you will see: head/science/tfel-edf/ (Copied from head/science/tfel, r555690) It is that repo copy (i.e. svn copy) from science/tfel to science/tfel-edf which […]

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All quarterly commits are being saved on the master branch

In the last post, I found that many commits were to the master branch when they should have been on the quarterly branch. Now I think I see why. See this XML: If it’s quarterly, it should name the branch. Case in point: 2020Q4. I went to https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-branches/2020-November/thread.html to look for known quarterly commits. Hmm,

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My ansible changes when deploying a new host

This is more for my own sanity for the next time I deploy a new FreshPorts host. There is no useful information here for anyone else. Base this upon the existing host: svn cp host_vars/foo.example.org host_vars/NEWHOST svn cp roles/postgresql-server/templates/hosts/foo.example.org roles/postgresql-server/templates/hosts/NEWHOST Edit these files: host_vars/NEWHOST roles/postgresql-server/templates/hosts/NEWHOST/pg_hba.conf.j2 roles/postgresql-server/templates/hosts/NEWHOST/postgresql.conf.j2 Create ssl certs for: NEWHOST.freshports.org NEWHOST.freshsource.org NEWHOST

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Getting the pkg-plist contents for a FreeBSD port/package

One of the lesser known FreshPorts features is searching pkg-plist. You want nslookup and dig but you can’t find the package which installs that. The FreshPorts search can find it for you. When a new commit occurs for a given port, FreshPorts extracts and store the pkg-plist information. This allows you to search. How does

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ignore case when browsing to a cat/port – the details of how to do that

This idea came to me today from swills: stupid question, would it be possible to make the urls on freshports case insensitive? so that like https://www.freshports.org/x11/libx11 would go to https://www.freshports.org/x11/libX11 After confirming this was for manually typed URLs (as opposed to generated links), I started looking into it. This is what I found. In this

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