This is the first of several post reviewing and documenting the subversion to git conversion process. In short, FreshPorts is split into two parts, which are explained by this high level overview: ingress – getting stuff into the database web – getting stuff from the database That division of labor is not strictly delimited. Typically, […]
The ingress daemon code Read More »
Just so you know, there is no conclusion to this story. The cause is still not known. However, I have some ideas to track it down and a follow-up blog post is underway. In short: All src commits gave errors – this was reproducible, and has been fixed When an error occurs, it’s not the
Updating to Perl 5.40 on FreeBSD 14.2 Read More »
This morning I was created with 6 emails, all announcing FAILED: MASTER_PORT, one for each FreshPorts node. Each was sent at 5AM (1000 UTC). Something happened which upset every one of them. I have no idea why. However, I’m writing this down for future reference. This announcement came from one of the many system checks
FAILED: MASTER_PORT Read More »
The original problem was explained and fixed however it seems to have resurfaced. Either that, or it was not fixed at all. In short: FreshPorts sees the first commit for a port on a branch the commit is deleting that port FreshPorts detects that the port has been deleted It forgets, somehow, that the port
When a port on a branch is deleted, FreshPorts tried, and fails, to refresh it Read More »
A recent commit to the FreeBSD ports tree brought in a new category: filesystems See also the followup to this blog post: Fixing the category creation code This commit has been processed by FreshPorts, the results are only partially good. For example, this screenshot shows the deleted ports (moved from their old categories to the
Welcome to the new category: filesystems Read More »
Today I updated the test ingress node of FreshPorts. Not long after, I was told by Nagios monitoring: I had a similar message comparing test to stage. Soon after, I saw this error in the logs: Oct 19 12:18:04 test-ingress01 dvl[12403]: FATAL eror with git-to-freshports-xml.py result: 1 – check git-delta.sh logs for more detail Looking
I’m so very happy about recent changes to the website. It’s been a great day. I was volunteering at a flu shot clinic. A new coffee shop has opened up, and I was there before the clinic. After the clinic, it was walking the dog, then some serious changes to the the PostgreSQL queries which
Great changes to the websites Read More »
The front page of FreshPorts is about to change, slightly. At present, the front page contains only the the commits to the main branch of the FreeBSD. More precisely, it does not include: Commits to Mk/ or other similar non-port entities within the ports tree Commits to the quarterly branch (whatever the latest quarter is;
Displaying all ports tree commits on the front page Read More »
When setting up a new FreshPorts ingress node, the repositories must be configured with tags so FreshPorts knows the last commit it has processed. This is the starting point each time FreshPorts goes to search for new commits. This post about Processing commits on branches with git might help with background. Those tags must be
Configuring the repo for a new ingress node Read More »
One of the primary uses for FreshPorts is searching various characteristics of the ports. One highly used search feature is pkg-messages (background at pkg-message). A problem which has been vexing me for about 2 months was the lack of results on prod, but results which worked on dev. The issue was raised on GitHub. Initially,
When tsvector was working as expected on most hosts, but not one Read More »