I have identified a lingering SVN issue, relating to tag expansion when accessing the repository via the web interface.
The VUXML page is not displaying the details of the last processed vuln.xml. It should show something like (this example from pre-SVN):
Revision: 1.2752 Date: 2012/07/11 Time: 01:47:55 Committer: swills
This problem is related to non-expanding tags when fetching files from svnweb. I think the solution is to start using ‘svn cat’ instead of fetch(1).
$ ': grep '\$FreeBSD\$' ~/ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml | head $FreeBSD$
However, if you use ‘svn cat’:
$ svn cat svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml | $FreeBSD$
Umm… oh, I have an older version of svn, without the FreeBSD patches for expanding tags. However, ‘svn info’ contains the required information:
$ svn info svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Path: vuln.xml Name: vuln.xml URL: svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Repository Root: svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports Repository UUID: 35697150-7ecd-e111-bb59-0022644237b5 Revision: 301154 Node Kind: file Last Changed Author: cs Last Changed Rev: 301124 Last Changed Date: 2012-07-18 20:28:47 +0000 (Wed, 18 Jul 2012)
In this case, I have bolded the information in question.
I think FreshPorts can make great use svn instead of using fetch. But that’s a longer term project.
