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Tonight we were trying to find a particular commit by a particular committer. I thought: wouldn’t a page listing all the commits by given commiter be useful? Paginate it, let people scroll through it. One day…
I heard someone mention that the categories page loaded slowly. That’s to be expected. It’s figuring out the last commit in each category. Calculating the number of ports in each category. And it’s doing this for both physical categories and virtual categories. There are about 16000 rows in the ports table, and about 94 categories. …
Now that I think about this… I’m sure there is something in the relational integrity to ensure that if a parent is marked as deleted, the children are mark deleted as well. Perhaps I need something to mark parents as active if a child is reactivated. I’ll check. In the meantime…. I couldn’t sleep, so …
Tonight I started working on the Deleted port that wasn’t deleted problem tonight. The first step is to create a script that lists all the entries in the ports table. I took an existing script, altered it to meet my needs, and came up with this: #!/usr/bin/perl -w # # $Id: set-broken.pl,v 1.1.2.2 2004/11/27 13:54:09 …
FreshPorts runs on an i386 machine under FreeBSD 4.11. That means all the information it contains, relates to that Branch (4.11) and that architecture (i386). Moves are underway to make FreshPorts branch and architecture independent. One of the main bits I needed for this was a way to know the the latest value for __FREEBSD__ …
Sam Lawrance found a bug. If a port is deleted, then a file added back in, and then it’s removed, FreshPorts doesn’t know that the port is deleted. He found this with x11/ruby-gnome. You can see that it is marked as an expired port. On 05 Nov 2005 08:07:45, kris removed it from the tree. …
FreshPorts not only keeps track of changes to the FreeBSD ports tree, it also keeps track of when ports move around and any special notes regarding upgrading. This information is obtained from MOVED and UPDATING respectively. Tonight I was chatting with Edwin Groothuis about MOVED. We got to talking how FreshPorts parsed this file. In …
I’m not very good at designing look and feel. I can do content, but not the pretty stuff. I’d like you to help out here. Please design me something better. I have a copy of Absolute BSD and a BSDCan 2005 t-shirt for the winning entry. What I want is something that looks better than …
This is where you’ll find all the news you want about FreshPorts. The first thing we need to do is make this site look like FreshPorts, not Word Press….