Archive for September, 2011

mail/horde4-imp vulnerability

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Mr Thomas wrote me regarding mail/horde4-imp and a particular vulnerability. Specifically, he figured that a recent commit (link to mail archives) fixed a bad entry in vuxml. Let’s look into that now.
I first compared dev, beta, and production. All three had the port flagged as vulnerable. This situation is indicated by […]

commits without files

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

In short, the concept of any computer system is usually straight forward. The complexity comes from the exceptions. Take commits for example. Yes, each commit affects a file. Or so you’d think. Consider this commit.
FreshPorts parses the email. In that email, there are no files mentioned. This caused […]

svn coming soon…

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

A while back, the src tree for FreeBSD moved to svn. The ports tree is still on cvs. For some time now, http://svn.freshports.org/ has been including the svn commits. But now, as old mailing lists become inactive, it’s time to start integrating things into the main websites.
The dev and beta websites have […]