At present, master/slave relationships in FreshPorts are not stored optimally. Each port has a field, master_port, which contains the category/port of its master_port, otherwise, it is an empty string. The ideal situation would be a table such as this: create table master_slave ( master_port_id integer not null, slave_port_id integer not null, primary key (master_port_id, slave_port_id) […]
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MASTERPORT is a tool Mark Linimon and I have used for a while. It seems to have entered into common usage now. freshports.org=# select master_port, category, name from ports_active where master_port like ‘/%’ order by category, name; master_port | category | name ———————————————–+————–+————————— /usr/home/dan/ports/devel/ocaml-camlidl | archivers | ocaml-zip /usr/home/dan/ports/devel/ocaml-camlidl | graphics | ocaml-lablgl /usr/home/dan/ports/japanese/kinput2-freewnn/ |
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Late last night, I wrote about a problem with virtual categories. I’ve been unable to reproduce the problem in test. But I did find the problem in production. [dan@supernews:/usr/websites/freshports.org/scripts] $ touch ../dynamic/www.en.ports.categories [dan@supernews:/usr/websites/freshports.org/scripts] $ sh process_www_en_ports_categories.sh about to fetch: fetch -q -o /usr/websites/freshports.org/dynamic/caching/tmp/categories http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/www/en/ports/categories?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain Can’t locate Text/CSV_XS.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
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After all I’ve written about virtual categories, it seems I still don’t have them right. The code is there: $ grep -l www/en/ports/categories * process_www_en_ports_categories.sh special_processing_files.pm but things are still not being updated. If you look at the list of categories, sort by Description, you will find several with a description of “This is a
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This is not good: $ file -kb /usr/home/dan/ports/www/p5-HTTP-Size/Makefile Apple Old Partition data block size: 20069, first type: ${PORTSDIR}/www/p5-HTML-SimpleL, name: I \, number of blocks: 1953460746, It should read: $ file -kb /usr/home/dan/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/Makefile ASCII English text Why do I care? The file in question has been fetched from the FreeBSD repository (via cvsweb). I need to
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This isn’t so much a fix for the vuxml problem mentioned previously as it is a fix for properly detecting and reporting fetch errors. The patch is pretty simple: $ cvs di -u utilities.pm Index: utilities.pm =================================================================== RCS file: /home/repositories/freshports-1/scripts/utilities.pm,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 utilities.pm — utilities.pm 13 Sep 2007 13:01:41 -0000 1.16
This morning portaudit told me I needed to upgrade PHP5 on a few servers. Again, I checked FreshPorts to see if a fix was in. Apparently it was. Unfortunately, it was wrong. Checking the version of vuln.xml in the ports tree, I found: $ grep ‘$FreeBSD’ ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml $FreeBSD: ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml,v 1.1416 2007/09/11 19:40:02 remko Exp $
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After my overnight security report audit came in, I noticed that Apache needed to be upgraded. I went to FreshPorts to see if a fix had been committed. While there, I noticed a lack of vuxml skulls against the latest versions of Apache. Checking the BETA website, I saw it was correctly marked. More digging
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As reported by sem@, there is a problem with the display of master/slave relationships within FreshPorts. The relationship is stored in the ports table, with the master_port attribute being a pointer to the master port. This text field typically has values such as this: freshports.org=# SELECT DISTINCT(master_port) freshports.org-# FROM ports_active freshports.org-# where master_port ” freshports.org-#
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Søren Straarup brought this up today. FreshSource does not link to the right place in CVSWEB for commits to CVSROOT. For example, look at this commit. If you click on the diff link, it goes to the wrong place. It goes to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/CVSROOT/modules.diff?r1=1.18319&r2=1.18318 instead of http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/CVSROOT-ports/modules.diff?r1=1.18319&r2=1.18318 After discussions with Simon Nielsen and is Søren Straarup,
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