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Moving distfiles to a new filesystem & deleting unused distfiles

Leave a Comment / distfiles, New ideas / Dan Langille

FreshPorts pulls down a lot of distfiles (the file distributed by the software author which contains the software). Much more than your average user. Every distfile for every commit is fetched. Let’s look at my private FreshPorts development instance: [13:18 dvl-ingress01 dvl /jails/freshports/usr/ports] % du -ch -d 0 distfiles 125G distfiles 125G total That’s 125GB. […]

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Using triggers to update a table with calculated values

Leave a Comment / CONFLICTS, Development, New ideas / Dan Langille

This was originally written in September 2018, but never published (for unknown reasons). I found it in the drafts section of the website today. In this post, you will see me change approach and not use a secondary table in one instance, but use multiple secondary tables in another. In one case, you will also

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make create-manifest

Leave a Comment / Development, New ideas / Dan Langille

Today I learned, or at best, relearned, a new make target: root@freshports:/usr/ports/sysutils/anvil # make create-manifest root@freshports:/usr/ports/sysutils/anvil # ls -lt | head total 14 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 3 Sep 10 17:26 work -rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 337 Sep 10 16:06 pkg-descr -rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 182 Sep 10 16:06 distinfo -rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 1050

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Adding and populating CONFLICTS

Leave a Comment / CONFLICTS, Development, New ideas, PostgreSQL / Dan Langille

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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Adding Makefile and pkg-plist to the mix

Leave a Comment / New ideas / Dan Langille

Recently, I’ve been adding more and more file content into the database, mostly because it’s useful. For example, we add the contents of the distinfo, because that information is useful. Next, it was pkg-plist, and before I was done that, someone suggested added in the Makefile. Neither pkg-plist nor Makefile will be perfect: Not all

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DEPENDS – direct or recursive?

1 Comment / Dependencies, New ideas / Dan Langille

Marie Helene asked a very good question: Does the “for run” dependency list only list direct dependencies, or depends of depends too? The answer is yes, only direct dependencies, but all the information is there to provide a complete list of all dependencies. The table looks like this: Here is the list of dependencies for

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Not all ports have packages

1 Comment / Development, New ideas / Dan Langille

Sir l33tname asked: @DLangille is it possible to show on freshports when there is no package for a port? — Sir l33tname (@l33tname) December 29, 2015 That’s a good question. It took some more questions on IRC for me to figure it out. Here is what I know. The port in question is net-p2p/btsync and

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Fetch, Patch, & Extract dependencies and Uses

1 Comment / Branches, Bug fixes, New ideas / Dan Langille

FreshPorts is not magic. It grabs the stuff it needs by running make -V with a number of parameters. New fields are added from time to time, usually at the prompting of a user. Recently, the following fields were added to the dev website: FETCH_DEPENDS PATCH_DEPENDS EXTRACT_DEPENDS USES More information on these fields can be

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What ports are dependant upon this port?

11 Comments / Development, New ideas, PostgreSQL / Dan Langille

An interesting discussion started earlier this week: upstream dependents. At present, FreshPorts captures and displays the information output from: make -V BUILD_DEPENDS -V RUN_DEPENDS -V LIB_DEPENDS For a given port, this tells up what that port depends upon for building, running, and libraries. The request is for this same information, but in the reverse ordering;

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make showconfig + OPTIONSFILE

Leave a Comment / New ideas / Dan Langille

Two posts ago, I wrote about adding the output of showconfig to each port. I also mentioned how I should override OPTIONSFILE so FreshPorts shows the default options settings, not those particular to the FreshPorts server. Here is the output of show config for sysutils/bacula-server: $ cd /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server $ make show config ===> The following

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