A drill down refers to moving from summary information to detailed data by focusing in on something. On a ports commit, you can drill down in several ways. Take this commit for example. You can the following ways to drill down:
takes you to the FreeBSD email archive
takes you to the […]

Have you ever wanted to see all the commits to devel before? What about all the commits to the various Apache ports?

Christian Ullrich found a problem with the Watch List updating pages. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been working on fixing it. I’ve been coding. He’s been verifying. Today we fixed it. The changes should go into production soon (if they aren’t already).
The other thing he mentioned was sorting by last […]

The Search and Sanity Test Failure features are now in production. Enjoy.

I’ve just finished adding Pager pagination to the search page in the BETA system. It will work only for port searches. Results will not be displayed if you search by Committer or Commit Message. I will fix that soon.
This reminds me, I should get full text search working on some of the […]

I’ve spoken about pagination before. Use the search to see where. I’ve started adding pagination to the Search page. I’ll be using Pager form PEAR again.

The FreshPorts search page has been around since May 2000 (nearly 6.5 years). Yesterday I added two new search capabilities…

FreshPorts has a long history of Sanity Testing each commit to the FreeBSD Ports tree. It has been doing this for two main reasons:

Ensure the integrity of the FreshPorts database
Help correct obvious errors as soon as possible

In 2002, FreshPorts allowed committers to opt in to receiving these notifications directly. Prior to this feature, […]

The personal news feeds are active once again.

FreshPorts, the place for ports, now lists the latest vulnerabilities. Along the left hand side of the page, you’ll see the last 15 vulnerabilities, as obtained from the ports/security/portuadit/vuln.xml file.
Happy patching.