Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:19:28 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-vuxml@freebsd.org Subject: FreshPorts and linking URLs by package name Message-ID: <419B0990.577.4099175C@localhost>
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Hi folks, beta FreshPorts has a special linking mechanism... http://beta.freshports.org/?package=ABC will show you the package ABC. However, I just noticed that this code uses LATEST_LINK, not PKGNAME. I think the code is wrong. I'm asking for comments here because this linking mechanism was designed with VuXML in mind. I found the issue when looking up ruby. Here is what the database says: freshports.org=# select id, name, category, latest_link, package_name from ports_active where package_name = 'ruby' or latest_link = 'ruby'; id | name | category | latest_link | package_name -------+--------+----------+-------------+-------------- 10419 | ruby18 | lang | ruby-devel | ruby 10838 | ruby16 | lang | ruby | ruby (2 rows) As you can see, latest_link differs for each port, but the package name is the same. Therefore, I think that when you browse to http://beta.freshports.org/?package=ruby, you should be asked which ruby you want. I have made that change in FreshPorts beta (this feature is not yet available in production). Any suggestions/comments, thanks. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/
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