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New links to GitLab and GitHub, in addition to the exist cgit.freebsd.org

Based on the Add links to GitHub and GitLab mirrors for ports and commits request, the website has some new links arriving soon. Link to GitHub from each commit A similar link to GitLab Use the one you...

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note to self: restoring a database

Tonight I was setting up a new FreshPorts node for development. It took me a while to remember the steps. sudo su -l postgres psql template1 < globals.sql createdb -T template0 -E SQL_ASCII...

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Configuring the repo for a new ingress node

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...

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Displaying all ports tree commits on the front page

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...

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Great changes to the websites

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...

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Using triggers to update a table with calculated values

This was originally written in September 2018, but never published (for unknown reasons). I found it in the drafts section of the website today. In this post, you will see me change approach and not...

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My thanks to AWS

My thanks go out the AWS team who deal with the credits for open source projects. FreshPorts hit a big problem in Sep/Oct and I thought the project was going to have a non-trivial bill to pay. The main...

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Recent UI changes

Today, the UI on the website was updated. The primary changes are to the home page and the date pages (i.e. lists of commits). I have purposely not cleared the cache. This should help you see the...

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devel/py-pygit2: AttributeError: ‘_pygit2.Commit’ object has no attribute...

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...

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Moving distfiles to a new filesystem & deleting unused distfiles

FreshPorts pulls down a lot of distfiles (the file distributed by the software author which contains the software). Much more than your average user. Every distfile for every commit is fetched. Let’s...

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