January 2014

Tracking port changes by branch – first fix

I recently wrote about a problem with FreshPorts not tracking changes by branch. I recently patched the dev system and things are looking better. The patch is: This change forces the code to look for an existing row in the system_branch_element_revision table, and if not found, add it in. I used this commit against news/trn4 […]

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Captcha problem

The other day, captcha broke. But a concerned user mentioned that he was able to create an account despite that. I tried and failed to reproduce the problem. Can you? Here are the steps he mentioned: I went to http://www.freshports.org/new-user.php Entered all my data without any captcha code entered and press “create account” Saw an

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pkg-descr processing has been fixed

John Marino wrote in August to tell me about a problem with pkg-descr. He pointed out that new ports were not showing the contents of that file. He provided examples: devel/commit-patch devel/florist-gpl archivers/zip-ada On beta, the results were correct for devel/commit-patch, but devel/florist-gpl and archivers/zip-ada were wrong. I fixed the problem on dev, but then

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