etag
koobs mentioned I need to look at etag. See http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freshports.org%2Fsecurity%2Fpy-pycrypto%2F
The animated bug is gone
For some time, the website has had an animated bug. This was originally introduced to the development website as a visual clue for myself. It escaped into the wild through a commit. Today I’m fixing that mistake by making the image a configuration option of the website in question. The diff for this change is:
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committer isn’t always user name
The problem Sometimes the data in a field changes over time. Or rather, what you expect to appear in the field changes. Case in point, the committer field in a commit email is not always the user id of the committer. Sometimes it contains spurious characters. This is one of the classic problems associated with
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Production now using chroot
Earlier today I run cvsup on the main website and pulled down the code for running make -V in a ‘jailed’ environment. It’s not actually a jail; it’s more of a chroot. You can read up on previous jail posts first, but the idea came from Ryan Steinmetz (zi@). I found the idea incredibly simple
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still a problem with vumxl I think
Compare the pages for ruby18 on prod, dev, and beta. It seems they disagree on what versions are affected. I’m not sure if this is a pkg_verison issue or not.
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New sanity test proposed: CATEGORIES
If you’re committing a port, the physical category must be included in CATEGORIES. That is, sysutils/bacula-server/Makefile must have sysutils in CATEGORIES. When people move ports, they often overlook that issue. In a recent commit, 25 ports failed this test. Proposal: add a new sanity test which checks for this situation and alerts the committer.
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Updates to vuxml ranges fails
If a vuxml entry is updated, and the ranges change, those changes are not recorded in FreshPorts. This came to my attention from the FreeBSD Security team. They noticed that for the recent Oracla Java vuln FreshPorts had all versions for > 7. It boiled down to this: http://www.freshports.org/vuxml.php?vid=16846d1e-f1de-11e1-8bd8-0022156e8794 [1] differs from this: http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/16846d1e-f1de-11e1-8bd8-0022156e8794.html [2]
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Wrong link to svnweb
Brad Davis wrote in to explain that the home page for net-mgmt/nagios-snmp-plugins-extras on beta is wrong. It is missing the hostname for the URL. Indeed it is. And it’s wrong on the dev box too. I looked. I found out the cause. Here is a brief version of the code which pulls back the hostname
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I found a few more makes to convert to jails
When I went looking for commands to convert to the new jail strategy, I failed to find two. I have remedied that oversight now. make showconfig This command extracts the configuration items from the port. Like all the other scripts, it is fairly straight forward. The following is from make-showconfig.sh: make master-sites-all This command extracts
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