What’s in the pipeline, how it works, how it’s made…
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, […]
All quarterly commits are being saved on the master branch Read More »
I need to document this so I can refer to it while debugging. This follows the chain of scripts which processes a commit. Periodic FreshPorts, at present, checks for new commits every three minutes, via this entry in /etc/crontab: That will invoke this script: check_for_git_commits.sh This is a cheat. It touches a file, which is
git commit processing – how is it done? Read More »
Today I’m working on https://devgit.freshports.org and fixing links to http://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/ for individual commits. Some of these links are stunted to: commit/c2b0677 (i.e. no hostname) A theory I think I know why. The repo_id field of the commit_log table is empty. This field links to the commit to a specific row in the repo table. That
Fixing links to git repo Read More »
I have no write up of the jails used by FreshPorts. The following originated in an email I sent this morning. FreshPorts runs on a FreeBSD host, hosting four jails. db – the PostgreSQL database server – the source for all content. connections via TCP/IP mx – Postfix takes incoming emails from subversion mailing list
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
My ansible changes when deploying a new host Read More »
I’m going to add bookmarks for ports. You can go directly to the dependencies, to the commits, to the configuration items. This will outline the sections before I start coding: #description #dependency #flavors #distinfo #packages #dependencies #config #uses #sites #commits
Bookmarks for ports Read More »
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
Getting the pkg-plist contents for a FreeBSD port/package Read More »
A few days ago, I did the database work to ignore case when browsing to a cat/port. Tonight, I did the website side. database access First, I altered the database function (in classes/element_record.php) to use the new stored procedure: On line one, I modify the function to pass in an optional parameter which preserves the
Implementing the lower-case search into the website Read More »
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
ignore case when browsing to a cat/port – the details of how to do that Read More »
In my recent post, my conclusion preferred Rename over Delete & Add. Now I’ve changed my mind. I looked at the code, and the database. Now I prefer Delete & Add. The database In the database, there is no way to represent the Rename action without modifying the structure of the commit_log_elements table: The change_type
for git commits which is better: ‘Rename A to B’ or’ Delete A; Add B’ Read More »