News and announcements regarding FreshPorts, The Place For Ports
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 code for the front end of FreshPorts is at https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/ There are other repos there as well. There are also many repos within my subversion server in the basement homelab. laurent@ has been helping with the conversion process. I have started reviewing his work and comparing it to my development environment to see if [ ]
I m moving from PostgreSQL 16 to PostgreSQL 18 at home in the basement. I ve done the dev and dvl databases. Now it s time for test and stage. Since they are closer (in configuration) to production, I thought I would document how I m doing that. I m likely to jump back and forth between test and stage [ ]
Shortly after moving the jail dvl-ingress01 from Python 3.11 to Python 3.12, I started seeing these messages: The code in question ( link to source) is This should be easy enough to replace, knowing python. First, reproduce the problem With any change to fix a problem, I must first be able to reproduce the problem. [ ]
This post replaces Updating a jail by replacing it This post is a proof-of-concept for creating a new jail instead of upgrading one in-place. I think the process is easier, given there are no packages installed in the jail. The host names may not be consistent within this post. It has been constructed over multiple [ ]
This post talks about vuxml entries I found in the FreshPorts database table which were not in the security/vuxml files. This is another post in the new processing of vuxml series: How FreshPorts processes vuxml entries The new process_vuxml.pl Why does this PostgreSQL \copy fail when launched by the daemon? When the new code was [ ]
I have a perl script. One portion of it loads data into a PostgreSQL table. It runs as expected from the command line. It fails when launched by another script. I don t know why. I feel the key fact is the lack of output from the psql command. Nothing. No errors. No success. To be [ ]
This post is a work-in-progress. This paragraph will be removed when it is completed. This post is mostly for my own benefit. It will track the redesign of process_vuxml.pl which follows on from How FreshPorts processes vuxml entries. In that previous post, defects were identified and a proposed change put forth. In this post, I ll [ ]
One of my favorite FreeBSD features is security/vuxml from it we get these great tools (provided by pkg): * pkg audit (what installed packages contain known vulnerabilities?) * /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/410.pkg-audit pkg-audit for host and jails * /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/405.pkg-base-audit same as above, but for base system I use the latter two command within my monitoring [ ]
It has been 15 months since the last blog post about clearing out distfiles. It was time again today. This is still not scripted, however, that day may come. The steps were: [7:08 pro05 dvl ~] % ssh aws-1-ingress01 [11:09 aws-1-ingress01 dvl ~] % sudo service freshports stop Stopping freshports. Waiting for PIDS: 3073. [11:09 [ ]