Sometimes I’m too hasty with updating ported applications, and I need to roll
them back to a working version.
Since I use svnlite to manage my ports tree, this is relatively easy.
But since it is different than I’m used to (since I mostly use git),
I thought I would document it here for convenience.
This documents how to format a USB-stick on a recent FreeBSD system
When updating my ports, I prefer to use packages when I have not changed the options of a port. This describes how I do that.
Sometimes I have to build ports with local modifications. This can be for testing purposes, before submitting a PR or for improvements that only I consider important.
After the 2017-05-12 mesa port consolidation, there were packages left with missing dependencies. This is how to fix them
Clone the repository from https://github.com/jbaiter/gphoto2-cffi.
> cd ~/github
> git clone https://github.com/jbaiter/gphoto2-cffi
This article document how I updated python3 from version 3.5 to 3.6 on FreeBSD.
Since its inception in 2014, I’ve been following the LibreSSL project.
The OpenSSL codebase turns out to have severe problems. See the presentation, and especially sheet 7.
The version in the FreeBSD base system is old, but the version used by the ports I can control. It took a while, but now was the time for me to switch.
This article documents the process I followed to update Python 3.4 to 3.5 on my FreeBSD machines.