Patching Drupal on FreeBSD
This amazingly useful web site makes upgrading Drupal much easier. However, while following the steps, we encountered an error when trying to dry run the update:
patch -p1 --dry-run < PATCHFILE
patch: unrecognized option `--dry-run'
Patch utility on our FreeBSD installation did not have --dry-run option available. Instead, there is a --check option:
by Alex Polkhovsky on 21 Aug 10
Call to undefined function curl_init() in FreeBSD
I came across this error when I enabled Ping.fm module on one of my sites and tried to post an update. The reason for the error is CURL for PHP is not installed.
by Alex Polkhovsky on 29 Mar 10