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 […]

An interesting discussion started earlier this week: upstream dependents.
At present, FreshPorts captures and displays the information output from:

make -V BUILD_DEPENDS -V RUN_DEPENDS -V LIB_DEPENDS

For a given port, this tells up what that port depends upon for building, running, and libraries.
The request is for this same information, but in the reverse ordering; what ports depend upon […]

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});
—
> […]

At present, master/slave relationships in FreshPorts are not stored optimally. Each port has a field, master_port, which contains the category/port of its master_port, otherwise, it is an empty string.
The ideal situation would be a table such as this:

create table master_slave
(
master_port_id integer […]

Today was the first day of PGCon 2007. I sat in on the Performance tuturial. The room was overflowing, so we moved to a larger room. 58 people for a tutorial is pretty impressive. The connection to FreshPorts? I came up with an idea for solving the problem. Tonight […]

Some of you may be noticing HTML in the daily outgoing messages. I apologise for that. You must have seen the various notices that appear at the top of each FreshPorts webpage. At present, they look like this:

Absolute BSD - $25 shipped - order yours now

I’m looking for work. […]

Repo copies are evil. What are repo copies? A repo copy occurs when you move things around in the repository manually. For example, this commit contains a lot of repo copy work. Ports are being moved from their current category to a new category, ports-mgmt. The original files in the […]

FreshPorts has a CVS history that dates back to mid 2000 (and that’s just what I could find with a quick search). It started on a MySQL, which isn’t really up to the job. It quickly moved to PostgreSQL, the finest database server out there, and it just happens to be Open Source. […]

There will be a PostgreSQL Conference in May 2007. I’ll definintely be there! I’m looking forward to this.
It’s right after a BSD conference. There will be quite a few people attending both conferences. One trip, two conferences, a great time.