This isn’t about detecting vulnerabilities. It is about finding vulnerabilities that others have already reported. Background reading: FreeBSD Porter’s Handbook: Keeping the community informed FreeBSD VuXML Here are the various vuxml pages provided by FreshPorts: The latest vulnerabilities are listed on the home page A complete list of all vulnerabilities by date A complete list […]
Vulnerabilities – finding them easily (vuxml) Read More »
FreshPorts encountered its first corrupted cvs-all email today. It handled it correctly. It errored out, put the emails aside in the retry queue, and sent me a notice. Af first, I thought the email had been corrupted on the way into my system. But after checking the above URL, I realised it was bad at
Back in August, I wrote about patching the ports tree to cater for master/slave relationships. I am happy to report that this patch is no longer required. Instead of MASTERPORT, as provided by that patch, I can use MASTER_PORT, which is now part of the stock ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. \o/ No more patching.
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Since FreshPorts started caching the HTML, the watch list count started to lag. At present, it is refreshed only when the port is updated. The BETA website has a patch for this. It should go into production soon. To play with the patch, login at the BETA website, and add/remove a port to/from your watch
New categories arise from time to time. The descriptions for all categories are held in www/en/ports/categories. There are two situations when FreshPorts needs to fetch this file from CVS: When a new port is created. When www/en/ports/categories is updated. I have case #2 coded. Case #1 is not as easy to do. In case #2,
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 not null, slave_port_id integer not null, primary key (master_port_id, slave_port_id)
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The tk category now has a member! This category was added to www/en/ports/categories about six months ago. It was this commit that did it. The previously reported problem with virtual categories repeated in production. That is to be expected. The proposed solution exists only on my private dev server at home. Regretably, the solution has
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MASTERPORT is a tool Mark Linimon and I have used for a while. It seems to have entered into common usage now. freshports.org=# select master_port, category, name from ports_active where master_port like ‘/%’ order by category, name; master_port | category | name ———————————————–+————–+————————— /usr/home/dan/ports/devel/ocaml-camlidl | archivers | ocaml-zip /usr/home/dan/ports/devel/ocaml-camlidl | graphics | ocaml-lablgl /usr/home/dan/ports/japanese/kinput2-freewnn/ |
MASTERPORT : who uses it? Read More »
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It was quite some time ago that I [finally] moved FreshPorts onto the new server. Today I moved FreshSource over too. Both websites use the same database instance. That is, each website is a different view of the same database. Now that FreshSource is over here, we should be able to start doing a lot
FreshSource and FreshPorts back on the same server Read More »