What’s in the pipeline, how it works, how it’s made…
Today I updated the fp-listen and freshports daemons. These are the scripts which invalidate the cache and process incoming commits, respectively. No code changes were made, just the installations directories. Previously, this code when into /var/service but now they go into /usr/local/libexec/freshports-service and I create a symlink from /var/service as as required. This confirms to […]
fp-listen and freshports daemons updated Read More »
This post serves two goals: document the CONFLICTS implementation within FreshPorts show how you can use triggers to update a secondary table The FreeBSD ports tree / package collection has a method for resolving conflicts. This feature allows a port maintainer to specify what, if any, packages conflict with a given port. The reasons why
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Sorry, this is a placeholder. Or better put, a redirect. Please read Perl @INC – customizing it for FreeBSD for details.
Upgrading from Perl 5.24 to 5.26 causes FreshPorts scripts to fail Read More »
Jochen Neumeister noticed that FreshPorts no longer lists phpunit6. see also https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/issues/72. Sure enough, I went searching and failed to find it. It did not turn up. Then I checked Include deleted ports, then clicked on Search again. Ahh, there it it. Sure enough, it is marked as deleted. Look for the small icon at
Where did phpunit6 go? Read More »
For several weeks, FreshPorts had a vuxml processing problem. In this blog post, I will share what I found. Introduction Incoming events for FreshPorts are handled by a small Python script which checks for flags and incoming commits. This ensures that work is carried out serially because parallel work can have unintended consequences. After each
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The previous post on this blog was nearly 10 months ago. However, things have not stood still. There have been a few issues fixed and some are still in progress. The biggest thing underway is a major rework of the backend, the part that processes the incoming commits. There is nothing major; no huge code
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Committing to a branch (e.g. 2016Q4) when the port in question has slave ports is getting tricky, especially if the port was added after the branch was created. Case in point, www/linux-c7-flashplugin11 was added to the tree on 19 Oct 2016. The 2016Q4 branch was created on 3 Oct, and therefore that port does not
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$ grep -c 142.217.121.133 /usr/websites/log/freshports.org-access.log.0 72446
Hey 142.217.121.133, what are you doing? Read More »
I was asked if this was a known bug. It’s not. I don’t think anyone knows about it. dvl: ping. FreshPorts truncates COMMENT. Known issue? https://www.freshports.org/devel/include-what-you-use/ Here’s what I found there: Tool for use with clang to analyze Here is what the Makefile contains: $ grep COMMENT Makefile COMMENT= Tool for use with clang to
It’s not me. It’s you. Read More »
As you know, I’ve been working on branches this long holiday weekend. Today, I managed to get the display of a port on a branch to correctly. Along the way, I discovered a downside to storing raw data in the database. Take for example this output: This is the output of make -V RUN_DEPENDS. You
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