ports

I’m a big fan of capistrano for my deployment and generally also prefer the command line (vs. nifty web interfaces). Recently, I realized that it would be better to give up some responsibility to others on a project and it seems the easiest in terms of capistrano is webistrano — by the Berlin-based Peritor. Gimme a port! Because FreeBSD is and always will be my favorite operating system, I created a small port for webistrano on FreeBSD....

Thanks to Wesley, we recently managed to update CouchDB’s FreeBSD port to the official 0.9.0 release. My current TODO for the port includes: a super-cool rc-script (currently, there is none) automatic user setup/creation (couchdb) patching of the install/source to use BSD-style directories for the database (e.g. /var/db/couchdb). In regard to the the rc-script, I continued on a work in progress and committed an idea on Github. This work in process (couchdb) works out of the box....