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-- News and announcements regarding FreshPorts, The Place For Ports. Cache clearing issue Bug fixes , Caching , Development , PostgreSQL , Python No Responses » Jan 26 2020 FreshPorts had a cache clearing issue recently. It lingered. For a long time. It took me a while to figure it out. It turned out to be a Python 3 compatibility issue. In this post: PostgreSQL 12.1 FreeBSD 12.1 I will outline how database changes invoke external scripts asynchronously which then clear the cache. I […] Posted by Dan Langille at 2:36 pm Tagged with: PostgreSQL The slave ports for devel/binutils did not get deleted Bug fixes , Development , Sanity Tests No Responses » Jan 25 2020 I’ve noticed a log of sanity test failures related to devel/binutils lately. Every single commit. Issue 133 deals with that. Here, I plan to document what happened. FreshPorts has, since inception, worked off the commit emails. The incoming email is parsed and XML created. The XML is then used to update the database. I started […] Posted by Dan Langille at 2:29 pm Code point \u0005 is not a valid character in XML Bug fixes , XML No Responses » Jan 09 2020 XML can be tricky. XML plays a heavy role in FreshPorts. Since the early days, converting to XML then loading into the database has been a priority. This choice means the database-loading code doesn’t need to know much about the source of the data. It always means we can change the data source without modifying […] Posted by Dan Langille at 9:55 am Website slowness – the investigation Development No Responses » Dec 21 2019 The website has been slow for some time. I think it is because of increased disk-io. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 PostgreSQL 11.5 LibreNMS does the graphs via SNMP The diskio overall By increased, I mean it has gone from about 0.1k to about 1.6k, peaking to 140-150. This is steady and persistent. This graphs […] Posted by Dan Langille at 2:16 pm Creating the first FreshPorts git-specific jail Development , git No Responses » Sep 27 2019 I was just creating a new jail for working on git & FreshPorts. I was intrigued to see that iocage uses send | receive to create the new jail: [dan@slocum:~] $ ps auwwx | grep iocage root 64166 3.7 0.0 12788 4036 1 D+ 21:16 0:06.10 zfs send system/iocage/releases/12.0-RELEASE/root@git-dev root 64167 2.8 0.0 12752 4036 […] Posted by Dan Langille at 4:20 pm first commit process via git Development , git 3 Responses » Sep 22 2019 We have the first commit process via git into FreshPorts. Details in this git comment. Work remaining: check out that commit into the working copy of the files run make -V on the working copy to get the refreshed values for the port[s] affected by this commit The 2nd part – very little code change. […] Posted by Dan Langille at 2:10 pm Moving towards commit hooks Development No Responses » Sep 18 2019 I want to move FreshPorts towards using commit hooks and away from depending upon incoming emails for processing new commits. Much of the following came from a recent Twitter post. You might think: why are we using emails? Why? Because we can. They were the easiest and most simple approach. It is a time-proven solution. […] Posted by Dan Langille at 5:59 am Things you didn’t know FreshPorts can do Development 2 Responses » Sep 03 2019 I’m trying to think of a list of things that FreshPorts can do which might be useful. I can think of these: provides example dependency line. e.g. p5-XML-RSS>0:textproc/p5-XML-RSS list of dependencies for a port list of ports depending upon this port Default configuration options what packages install a given file (e.g. bin/unzip) what ports does […] Posted by Dan Langille at 12:44 pm git and FreshPorts git No Responses » Sep 02 2019 When the time comes, and the FreeBSD project is using git, there will be work to be done on FreshPorts. If the commit emails are similar to those under cvs and svn, it should be straight forward to parse the email and convert it to XML. Once the data is in XML, the commit can […] Posted by Dan Langille at 8:14 pm HTML and graph changes Development No Responses » Jul 13 2019 Today I updated the test website with two changes: use of dd, dt, and dl tags in the details section of the ports page Three new graphs: doc ports src The tags part was all the result of me reading up on them and concluding they could be useful. The graphs were swills’ fault. They […] Posted by Dan Langille at 5:37 pm Older Entries Like what we do? As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Want a good read? 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