One of the many useful features on FreshPorts is: what port[s] install[s] this file? That’s the pkg-plist search option. pkg-plist is a file which “lists all the files installed by the port”. However not all ports have a pkg-plist file because the list is compiled automatically. That is why the configure_plist table was created to […]
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By request FreeBSD 14 is being added to the list of build packages. Looking at the main freebsd pkg mirror, we can see FreeBSD:14 is listed. These are the items in question: FreeBSD:14:i386 FreeBSD:14:amd64 FreeBSD:14:aarch64 FreeBSD:14:armv6 FreeBSD:14:armv7 FreeBSD:14:mips FreeBSD:14:mips64 FreeBSD:14:powerpc64 The SQL is: But why type all this, code it. Which produces: [dan@pg02:~/bin] $ sh
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Today, while I wasn’t looking, both dev and test located and imported new package information for: FreeBSD:11:amd64 FreeBSD:11:i386 FreeBSD:12:amd64 FreeBSD:12:i386 FreeBSD:13:amd64 FreeBSD:13:i386 However, the packages table was not correctly updated. Why? Because I lost some function code I wrote. This is the code which was in use, as mentioned in Using DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED on
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In the previous post I documented how the packages_raw table is updated to populate the abi_id and port_id columns. This post will discuss how that data is then pushed into the packages table. Thoughts When updates arrive, they arrive in quantity. The latest update was 30474 records. From that, we will have some new packages,
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This post is another in the packages series. It documents how the data is transformed from the raw form (packages_raw) into normalized data (packages). The Packages – how is this data stored? post may be useful reading. The primary purpose of this blog post is documentation of the above mentioned transformation process. Along the way
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This is the latest in a series of posts dealing with displaying what packages are available for a given FreeBSD port. The Packages – how is this data stored? post may help you follow along. It outlines the data and the tables used in this post. Last night I managed to get the right data
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This post deals with adding a new feature: A table of which FreeBSD version and architecture has a given package The goal: parse the packagesite.yaml supplied with each repo and load the results into the FreshPorts database. A bunch of the background in the above URL, and I don’t want to repeat it here. This
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When I started this, I thought it was be straight forward and take only a few hours at most. It turned into multiple hours over two days. This is part two of a two-part post. The first part dealt with changing a database column from time to timestamp. In this post: PostgreSQL 12.2 Nagios 3.5
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The plan for today was not decided until after I got out of bed. I sat down with coffee and looked through the list of tasks. I found one which appealed: monitor the cache_clearing_ports & cache_clearing_dates tables This is part one of a two-part story. The first part deals with fixing a database table before
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FreshPorts had a cache clearing issue recently. It lingered. For a long time. It took me a while to figure it out. It turned out to be a Python 3 compatibility issue. In this post: PostgreSQL 12.1 FreeBSD 12.1 I will outline how database changes invoke external scripts asynchronously which then clear the cache. I
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