Today, kwm mentioned that http://www.freshports.org/Mk/bsd.port.mk was out of date, showing the most recent commit as back in March. My first concern was the system had stopped recording such commits. To check on that, I looked at https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/Mk/bsd.port.mk and searched my email for the most recent commit message. Extracting the message id from that email, I […]
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John Marino wrote in to mention that the list of latest vulnerabilities (see the right hand column of the
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FreshPorts processes commits via email. That is, email coming in from the mailing list are received by FreshPorts, parsed, and the resulting data loaded into the database. Today a problem arose. I received these error messages: This List-Id/Message-Id combination is not known to this script. List-Id=’SVN commit messages for the ports tree for head ‘
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A mail error is breaking many things, including the daily reports and sanity test failures. This problem is only on production, not on dev. The error is: could not open Mail::Sender. from=’FreshPorts Sanity Daemon <FreshPorts@example.org>’ to=’kwm@example.org’ subject=’FreshPorts sanity checking’ errorcode=’-24′ errormsg=’IO::Socket::SSL- >start_SSL failed: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed’ I
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Yesterday I tweeted that FreshPorts now directs you to bugs.freebsd.org for a PR. I noticed the URL typo but I was headed to bed. Today, @FreeBSDHelp told me that links involving a category were wrong. Here’s the patch: The first half fixed the case for ports/1234 etc. The second half fixes: PR 1234, 123, and
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Bernard emailed me, and Tim Stoddard posted in the forum about search not finding what it should find. I quickly agreed; it was wrong. Fortunately, it was a small fix. See also my follow-up post where I fixed the broken data. The problem The problem was searching for ports such as bird didn’t include that
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Back in 2007, perhaps earlier, I wrote a Python script which listens for various PostgreSQL events. In particular, this script will invalidate the cache for a port when it is updated. There are several other such tasks, such as the creation of a new category. When the commit processing daemon (freshports) detects that a new
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Tonight I found out that FreshSource is getting out of date. Xride told me that the display commit was no longer working. For example, http://www.freshsource.org/commit.php?message_id=200609292014.k8TKEV98041749@repoman.freebsd.org gives a blank page. Checking the web logs, I see the cause: [Fri Oct 25 02:59:35 2013] [error] [client 71.185.48.53] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function freshports_cvsweb_Revision_Link() in /usr/local/www/freshsource.org/www/commit.php
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This just came to my attention. The processing of pkg-descr since we moved to using a jail-based solution is wrong. The function which reads and processes the contents of pkg-descr is not using the jail to read the file. I’ll fix the bug soon, and refresh all commits which touched pkg-descr. Noted by koobs with
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koobs mentioned I need to look at etag. See http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freshports.org%2Fsecurity%2Fpy-pycrypto%2F