This is not good:
$ file -kb /usr/home/dan/ports/www/p5-HTTP-Size/Makefile
Apple Old Partition data block size: 20069, first type: ${PORTSDIR}/www/p5-HTML-SimpleL, name: I \, number of blocks: 1953460746,

It should read:
$ file -kb /usr/home/dan/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/Makefile
ASCII English text

Why do I care? The file in question has been fetched from the FreeBSD repository (via cvsweb). I need to ensure it’s not an […]

This isn’t so much a fix for the vuxml problem mentioned previously as it is a fix for properly detecting and reporting fetch errors. The patch is pretty simple:

$ cvs di -u utilities.pm
Index: utilities.pm
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/repositories/freshports-1/scripts/utilities.pm,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 utilities.pm
— utilities.pm 13 Sep 2007 13:01:41 -0000 […]

This morning portaudit told me I needed to upgrade PHP5 on a few servers. Again, I checked FreshPorts to see if a fix was in. Apparently it was. Unfortunately, it was wrong.
Checking the version of vuln.xml in the ports tree, I found:
$ grep ‘$FreeBSD’ ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml
$FreeBSD: ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml,v 1.1416 2007/09/11 19:40:02 remko […]

After my overnight security report audit came in, I noticed that Apache needed to be upgraded. I went to FreshPorts to see if a fix had been committed. While there, I noticed a lack of vuxml skulls against the latest versions of Apache. Checking the BETA website, I saw it was correctly […]