One of the lesser known FreshPorts features is searching pkg-plist. You want nslookup and dig but you can’t find the package which installs that. The FreshPorts search can find it for you. When a new commit occurs for a given port, FreshPorts extracts and store the pkg-plist information. This allows you to search. How does […]
Getting the pkg-plist contents for a FreeBSD port/package Read More »
A few days ago, I did the database work to ignore case when browsing to a cat/port. Tonight, I did the website side. database access First, I altered the database function (in classes/element_record.php) to use the new stored procedure: On line one, I modify the function to pass in an optional parameter which preserves the
Implementing the lower-case search into the website Read More »
This idea came to me today from swills: stupid question, would it be possible to make the urls on freshports case insensitive? so that like https://www.freshports.org/x11/libx11 would go to https://www.freshports.org/x11/libX11 After confirming this was for manually typed URLs (as opposed to generated links), I started looking into it. This is what I found. In this
ignore case when browsing to a cat/port – the details of how to do that Read More »
In my recent post, my conclusion preferred Rename over Delete & Add. Now I’ve changed my mind. I looked at the code, and the database. Now I prefer Delete & Add. The database In the database, there is no way to represent the Rename action without modifying the structure of the commit_log_elements table: The change_type
for git commits which is better: ‘Rename A to B’ or’ Delete A; Add B’ Read More »
I spent an evening working through the delete issue with git repos. A Twitter thread was the result. Sergey Kozlov came up with some code changes which changed the XML output. Now I think we have a plan. The commit I’m using for a working example was to editors/nvi2 on 27 Jul 2020 01:58:34 –
git – changing libraries gave us new XML options Read More »
I want to document some of the not-visible differences between a git commit and a subversion commit when in the database. subversion git id 808224 808303 message_id 202007091812.069IC6QK044004@repo.freebsd.org a1d2d5b40fba4186daf29b2b2e9ff2dd8b7d8039 message_date 2020-07-09 18:12:06+00 2020-07-09 18:12:06+00 message_subject svn commit: r541803 – in head/devel: . py-absl-py [null] date_added 2020-07-09 18:39:53.510006+00 2020-07-09 18:59:49.863092+00 commit_date 2020-07-09 18:12:06+00 2020-07-09 18:12:06+00 committer
subversion vs git – in the database Read More »
This is another post in the FreshPorts-git series. Yesterday was good progress. This morning (at Sat Jul 4 13:05:10 UTC 2020) I manually initiated another import of commits from git. It looked like this: This created one XML file for each git commit. The files are dropped into the ~freshports/messages-queues/incoming directory. The freshports-git daemon (well,
Manual initiation of git commit processing Read More »
I’m documenting this as a go along because I’m sure I’ll be doing something that I later wish I had written down. Create the repo This creates a FreeBSD git-based port repo. echo git clone https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git /var/db/freshports/ports-jail/var/db/repos/PORTS-head-git | sudo su -l freshports The latest local commit This tells us the hash of the latest commit
Setting up a FreeBSD ports git repo for FreshPorts usage Read More »
Recently, a new use of ZFS snapshots was introduced for a cache on FreshPorts. This approach involves creating a snapshot on the empty cache, then rolling back to that snapshot when the cache needs to be cleared. This idea came from this Tweet after much discussion on how to properly and safely delete directory contents
ZFS when you’re not doing ZFS Read More »
git is coming to FreeBSD. The initial FreshPorts work for git started in September, then was abandoned for unknown reasons. It just fell off the RADAR. This week, it came back to my attention. References Some of the initial research was over Twitter. I’m saving those references here for future reference. The Tweet about the
git – the next FreshPorts project Read More »