I used to think branches were simple when it came to FreshPorts, but I was wrong. Consider slave ports for example. If we get a commit for databases/mariadb100-server, we have to update the slave ports, but only the slave ports on the branch, not the slave ports on head. That sounds easy enough, but keep […]
Branches are simple, but more complex than head Read More »
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
DEPENDS – direct or recursive? Read More »
This afternoon, Bert JW Regeer wished that FreshPorts “would show information from the quarterly branches too…”. I knew I had done some work on this and that there was a way to display branch information. I check the source code and found the ?branch= parameter, but there was nothing in the database for this branch.
Quarterly branches are available Read More »
See the issue raised here. On 1 April 2016, we had some large commits (you can see them all here). This ground the front page to a halt. But as you can see, that link above loads rather quickly. Why? At first, I thought it was because the date-based page was caching the results. I
Improving the home page query Read More »
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
Not all ports have packages Read More »
Today, I sat down with lattera & Shirkdog and converted the website repository from subversion to git. That repo is sitting there, ready to go. That process took about an hour. We ran this command: Yeah, I didn’t want to include all that that code in the repo. Various reasons, but mostly because they are
Open sourcing the website Read More »
A great feature of FreshPorts is the ability to see all the ports which are dependent upon a given port. For example, it allows you to see what ports depend upon security/polarssl. This list is stored in a the port_dependencies table, which looks like this: This information is gathered when a port is updated. The
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FreshPorts is a tender beast. It is both massive and sensitive. One example of that sensitivity came to light today. Jeffrey Bouquet wrote in to tell me of a problem with paths on FreshSource (our sister website, which displays more, but less). The problem has been corrected, but I took screen shots to illustrate this
hostname change causes missing links and pathnames Read More »
I noticed a few days ago: http://dev.freshports.org/ is out of date with respect to vuxml. That’s because the input processing for that website takes place in one jail, and the website (the output) takes places in another jail. There is no way for one to tell the other that something is ready for processing. This
Note to self: dev ain’t working Read More »
mandree reported a problem with security/openvpn-auth-ldap. Looking in the database: Looking at the database, the webpage is displaying what is there: Let’s looking at that commit in the database: OK, that’s not the commit which changed the BROKEN flag. Let’s look at that commit: The the date_added fields? These commits were processed out of order.