Archive for April, 2006

New searching features!

Friday, April 14th, 2006

Alexander Botero-Lowry and I came up with a VERY good idea today. Search icons beside names.
The BETA website has the icons added in already. Look at maintainer and committer. Once I finished, those icons will take you to the search page. That will get the list of ports maintained by […]

Bacula 1.38.8 changes

Friday, April 14th, 2006

Folks!
Yes, I’m a big fan of Bacula. It’s a great backup solution. I recently became the port maintainer. I’d like to point out a few recent changes.
Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING with regards to rcNG scripts. You must now add entries to /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local to allow the Bacula daemons to start.
You must […]

Broken ports cause vuln problems

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

I noticed this today. First, I apologise for highlighting the errors of others, but it is relevant to the topic.
FreshPorts has a number of sanity tests that it performs on each commit to a port. It does simple things like:
make -V PORTVERSION
If an error occurs during any sanity test, FreshPorts records and reports […]