From owner-freebsd-vuxml@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 13:19:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-vuxml@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E349E16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:19:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB56A43D4C for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:19:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295B63D40 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:19:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: freebsd-vuxml@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:19:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <419B0990.577.4099175C@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: FreshPorts and linking URLs by package name X-BeenThere: freebsd-vuxml@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documenting security issues in VuXML List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:19:29 -0000 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/