Got the #OpenZFSMastery section on dataset-level encryption done! Tomorrow, LUKS and maybe GELI.

All the latest FreshPorts features are on test and stage. #FreeBSD

All of FreshPorts is now on git. news.freshports.org/2026/10/05/c...

Asking Claude to convert my subversion repos to git.

Volunteers wanted to help translate FreshPorts. news.freshports.org/2026/10/04/f... #FreeBSD

This was where much of the i8ln work was done today. I was waiting for runners. I was the driver.

The first translations are in for FreshPorts. See github.com/FreshPorts/f... #FreeBSD

Translation support · Issue #678 · FreshPorts/freshports

If i18n support possible? I can translate it to Simplified Chinese. Thanks. Maybe .pot file or .po I'm sure that's possible. I'lll create a different issue for that. Originally posted by @dlangille...

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How does dev.freshports.org look like now? It should be usable on phones and tablets now I asked Claude to help with: github.com/FreshPorts/f... #FreeBSD

More progress on correctly reporting ports which get version bumps from outside the Makefile. news.freshports.org/2026/10/02/p... #FreeBSD #ports

A new #FreeBSD ports feature came in recently: BUILD_RUN_DEPENDS Some ports have the same depends for both RUN and BUILD. Specifying them twice wasn't fun. mat@ built this: cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/?... FreshPorts was prepared. It's on dev now: 1/2

Do you have a special jail on #FreeBSD which has no network access? You can update that jail (FOO) from the host with this command: # pkg --rootdir /jails/FOO upgrade -yr FreeBSD-base #FreeBSD #jail

When do FreeBSD commits happen? docs - news.freshports.org/2026/09/26/w... ports - news.freshports.org/2026/09/26/w... src - news.freshports.org/2026/09/26/w... #FreeBSD

FYI, ports which get their PORTVERSION from outside their own Makefile has been a years-old problem for FreshPorts. Unless FreshPorts knows it has changed, it can't keep the database current. The most likely solution now appears to be INDEX, as suggested by mat - ... 1/2

This has been fixed on all hosts.

Dan Langille@langille.org · 4w ago

Claude AI noticed FreshPorts has transposed EXTRACT_DEPENDS and PATCH_DEPENDS. There are at least 5300 ports which this affects. FYI, all this was in support of providing support RUN_BUILD_DEPENDS before it gets implemented: reviews.freebsd.org/D59664 #FreeBSD #FreshPorts

Claude AI noticed FreshPorts has transposed EXTRACT_DEPENDS and PATCH_DEPENDS. There are at least 5300 ports which this affects. FYI, all this was in support of providing support RUN_BUILD_DEPENDS before it gets implemented: reviews.freebsd.org/D59664 #FreeBSD #FreshPorts

An NVMe stick disappeared. I'll wait a bit before booting the host. And have I mentioned watchgoose.com ? See dan.langille.org/2026/09/12/d... #FreeBSD #ZFS

Watchgoose — Cron Job Monitoring & Heartbeat Alerts

Cron job monitoring that alerts you when a scheduled task, backup, queue, or script misses its heartbeat. Free to start - no credit card required.

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Progress on parsing Mk/bsd.default-versions: * the table of known *_DEFAULT value is populated, and very quickly * staring to query each port to find out if PORTVERSION is affected by any one of those *_DEFAULT values Imagine something like this: 1/3 #FreeBSD #FreshPorts

This morning I did some update to a dev instance of #FreshPorts - I'll know more after the next commit to Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk how it's working. Yes, I could rerun an old commit. And I probably will, but for now, the code is in there and I'm working on other things for now. #FreeBSD

Now that I'm into pkgbase on #FreeBSD, I've updated my procedure for updating FreshPorts working jails. These are jails in a jail. In short, I'm using bsdinstall for that. news.freshports.org/2026/09/08/u...

Current status: Getting help from Claude (via Anthropic free open source credits) to investigate #FreeBSD ports which get their PORTVERSION not from the Makefile. Some ports obtain their version from Mk/* Some light background reading for you: github.com/FreshPorts/f...

Port lang/python version display incorrect, should use Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk · Issue #659 · FreshPorts/freshports

The version displayed by Port lang/python is incorrect. It is recommended to obtain the value from Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk. Now Port lang/python version display 3.9_3,2, please see also https://...

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Using #PostgreSQL? pgbot looks interesting. github.com/pgrundev/pgbot It was just added to the #FreeBSD ports tree. www.freshports.org/databases/pg...

GitHub - pgrundev/pgbot: Postgres intelligence for ai agents & apps

Postgres intelligence for ai agents & apps. Contribute to pgrundev/pgbot development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Want to silence a VID or CVE from pkg-audit on #FreeBSD? "It basically adds a periodic job that runs prior to 405/410.pkg-audit, which downloads the vulnerability database if needed and removes entries as configured. No component/code of pkg is modified." www.freshports.org/security/per...

Supersonic trebuchet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co57...

Supersonic Trebuchet

YouTube video by Tom Stanton

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WHAT MAGIC IS THIS? see AUDIT_IGNORE_GLOB & AUDIT_IGNORE_REGEX in man pkg.conf #FreeBSD

That missing merge on the #FreeBSD 15.0 to 15.1 upgrade is reproducible: dan.langille.org/2026/08/12/a...

Now upgrading (from 15.0 to 15.1) the jails on this #FreeBSD 15.1 host : % sudo mkjail upgrade -a -v IGNOREME -p n Don't yet know how to best pass ABI & VERSION on the command line: pkg -j ${JAILNAME} -oABI=FreeBSD:15:$(uname -p) -oOSVERSION=1501000 upgrade -yr FreeBSD-base

That's this host done. All jails in the basement are upgraded. [14:23 r730-01 dvl /jails] % file */bin/sh | grep 15.0 [14:45 r730-01 dvl /jails] %

For my next trick, running `mkjail upgrade -a` to get the jails still on #FreeBSD 15.0 onto 15.1 `mkjail` will be greatly simplified under #pkgbase.

All #homelab #FreeBSD jails are pkgbasified-process was: export MYJAIL=unifi01 sudo zfs snapshot data02/jails/$MYJAIL@before.pkgbasify sudo ./pkgbasify.lua --jail $MYJAIL sudo joe /jails/$MYJAIL/etc/{master.passwd,group}\n sudo jail -rc $MYJAIL re: dan.langille.org/2026/07/20/r...