This issue was brought to my attention by wxs (Wesley Shields). The issue is evident at http://www.freshports.org/graphs2.php. When you get there, click on click on Commits Over Time by Committer and then wait for the page to load.
Scroll down to the D’s. There you’ll see a few committers suffixed with ‘(ports committer)’.
Looking […]

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 […]

As mentioned in the comments of my previous post, some commits have been processed with an incorrect prefix. That is, some pathnames are missing the src/ part of the path.
I just went looking…
I found interesting stuff. 1233 rows of interesting stuff.
For example:

SELECT *
FROM element_pathname
WHERE pathname NOT LIKE ‘/ports/%’
[…]

The most recent project on FreshPorts is what ports are dependent upon *this* port.
Tonight, two issues came to mind that I need to resolve:

Ports in the DEPENDS that do not exist
Refreshing other ports when a port depends upon them

At present, FreshPorts refuses to process a commit if a port does not exist. It produces […]

The RESTRICTED value on ports has been incorrectly recorded for some time.
The code fix:

$ cvs di port.pm
Index: port.pm
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/repositories/freshports-1/scripts/port.pm,v
retrieving revision 1.54
diff -r1.54 port.pm
168c168
< $restricted_alt = FreshPorts::Utilities::NULLIfEmpty($dbh, $this->{restricted_alt});
—
> […]

I think I’ve fixed a problem with caching of non-ports. I was looking for something to do tonight after I could not sleep. I found a old post about a this issue and figured I could fix it.
The fix is in BETA. I’ll monitor it for a while before pushing it to […]

Vladimir Chukharev wrote in to mention a problem with the ports freeze. FreshPorts usually puts up a notice indicating a Ports Freeze is in effect when the freeze is inacted. This freeze is effected by making a special change to CVSROOT/approvers.
FreshPorts looks for this change and sets a flag. The website notices this […]

This morning I encountered more NULL problems. The error in question was:

$ cat 2008.08.10.02.17.41.98171.txt.errors
DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: column “enull” does not exist
LINE 19: depends_lib = ENULL,
[…]

Cydex mentioned to me today:
dvl: /UPDATING and /MOVED don’t seem to be updating on FreshPorts
My response, ever so witty:
dvl: /UPDATING and /MOVED don’t seem to be updating on FreshPorts
I started comparing the production website with the one I run at home. The UPDATING pages differed. So did the MOVED pages.
I started looking at […]

A few days ago, I noticed portaudit telling me about a few things that needed to be updated:

# portaudit
Affected package: rubygem-rails-1.2.3
Type of problem: rubygem-rails — session-fixation vulnerability.
Reference: <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/30acb8ae-9d46-11dc-9114-001c2514716c.html>
Affected package: rubygem-rails-1.2.3
Type of problem: rubygem-rails — JSON XSS vulnerability.
Reference: <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/44fb0302-9d38-11dc-9114-001c2514716c.html>
Affected package: rubygem-activesupport-1.4.2
Type of problem: rubygem-rails — JSON XSS vulnerability.
Reference: <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/44fb0302-9d38-11dc-9114-001c2514716c.html>
3 problem(s) in your installed packages found.
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