krion pointed out today that when a port moves, your watch list is not updated. In this case, the port in question is dns/libidn. It’s listed as version 0.6.0 at the above URL, but in his watch list, he sees version 0.5.20. I saw the problem immediately. On his watch list, the port is listed […]
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If you have installed portupgrade, then you have portcvsweb. What is portcvsweb? Here’s a bit from the man page: portcvsweb — a tool to instantly browse a history via CVSweb That’s nice! Then, this morning, I thought about integrating this with FreshPorts. So I can up with this little patch: [dan@bast:~/bin] $ diff -ru /usr/local/sbin/portcvsweb
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The New Ports page is not sorting by date. I guess you haven’t noticed. Well, it is sorting by date, but alphabetically, not chronologically. Have a look at the above URL, then compare it with what I have done in my develoment site. You’ll see that the first sorts alphabetically, the second actually gets the
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The BSD Certification Group Inc. has announced the launch of their first fund raising drive to assist in the startup costs for the upcoming BSDA exam. Take a moment of your time to Donate $10 to support BSD. While you’re at it, consider chipping in another $10 to your favourite BSD project’s donation page.
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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…
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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.
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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
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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
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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__
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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.
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