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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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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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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I have to say, FreshPorts would be a very simple piece of code if it wasn’t for all the exceptions to the rules. But then, that is true for most software. Case in point, I’ve seen three base64 encoded emails in the past week or so. Each one makes FreshPorts barf. It has no idea
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Hmmm, I thought with my recent changes to use ‘svn up -r XXX’ would solve the problem of repo-copies. Why are repo-copies a problem for FreshPorts? FreshPorts knows only about the files mentioned in a commit. With repo-copies, a whole directory is moved, but the files in that directory are not mentioned in the commit.
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I recently discovered that for some pathnames, the URL is incorrect. For an example, look at http://www.freshports.org/japanese/im-ja/files/patch-src_xim_Makefile.in. Click on the first file listed there: devel/gdb6/files/patch-i386%nm-fbsd64.h The URL should be http://www.freshports.org/devel/gdb6/files/patch-i386%25nm-fbsd64.h. That is, the embedded % should appear in the URL as %25, which is the hexadecimal value for a percent-sign. A simple solution, using PHP,
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When is a port not a port? When it was deleted before the ports_categories table was introduced. I noticed that some long-deleted ports were not displaying correctly. For example: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/cdrecord/ It was displaying as a non-port, but it clearly was a port, although deleted. I tracked the problem down to this stored procedure: CREATE OR
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Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) brought my attention to a new port today. It’s about three months old, but it wasn’t showing up in FreshPorts. If you look at ports-mgmt/pkg now, it should look like this: bapt speculated that perhaps pkg was a reserved word in FreshPorts. I thought not. I was wrong. It is a special
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Well, perhaps not 5000 errors, but quite a lot of errors. A recent change to Mk/bsd.perl.mk has caused all sorts of grief on two of the FreshPorts servers. The problem occurs when specifying PORTDIR. Here is an example: #!/bin/sh make -V BUILD_DEPENDS -V FORBIDDEN \ -f /usr/home/dan/ports/databases/p5-DBIx-Class/Makefile DISTDIR=/usr/ports/distfiles PORTSDIR=/usr/home/dan/ports make -V BUILD_DEPENDS -V FORBIDDEN \
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This issue was brought to my attention by wxs (Wesley Shields). The issue is evident at http://www.freshports.org/graphs2.php. When you get there, click on click on Commits Over Time by Committer and then wait for the page to load. Scroll down to the D’s. There you’ll see a few committers suffixed with ‘(ports committer)’. Looking in
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