It takes a long time for FreshPorts to process a new vuln.xml file. A very long time. Why? Because it process all entries in the file. Every time.
Anton Berezin proposed an idea. I paraphrase, but in brief, he said:
Figuring out what changed is as easy as hashing an entry and […]

A number of new features have recently gone into FreshPorts. Each of which has been written above before. I will outline the changes, and provide a link to the original post about that feature.

svn coming soon… - FreshPorts now handle commit from three mailing lists: cvs-doc, cvs-ports, and svn-src-all.
What ports are dependant upon […]

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 […]

In my previous post, I mentioned problems encountered with processing vuxml entries for horde4-imp. The problem was not specific to a particular port, but came to light because a vuln was registered for a port, and then later removed. I tracked down the cause to not clearing out statistics before processing the new […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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/%’
[…]

Alex wrote in to mention that FreshSource was missing some src commits. In fact, he wrote twice. I’m glad he did. I replied to his first post saying that I was seeing www commits… He pointed out that no src commits were turning up.
OH!
I checked my local mailing list archive (i.e. a […]

Lately, I’ve been thinking and writing about how to list ports that depend upon this port. Today, another special situation arose: doing commits out of order.
Case in question: this commit support for databases/php5-sqlite3 to lang/php5-extensions.
The lang/php5-extensions commit was at 15:52:14. However, databases/php5-sqlite3 was not created until 15:54:29.
I am not sure how to best […]