What’s in the pipeline, how it works, how it’s made…
It’s one thing to identify a bug. It’s another to clean up the data corrupted by that bug. Fortunately, FreshPorts takes its data from the FreeBSD ports tree. This makes it rather straight forward to clean up most data issues; you just refresh the database from the ports tree. Case in point: a recently found […]
Fixing the pkg-descr problem Read More »
koobs mentioned I need to look at etag. See http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freshports.org%2Fsecurity%2Fpy-pycrypto%2F
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:
The animated bug is gone Read More »
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.
still a problem with vumxl I think Read More »
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.
New sanity test proposed: CATEGORIES Read More »
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]
Updates to vuxml ranges fails Read More »
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
Wrong link to svnweb Read More »
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
I found a few more makes to convert to jails Read More »
The jail approach mentioned in previous articles has been implemented on the dev system. It took about 4 hours of coding this afternoon. The setup script I spent some time today gathering together the stuff I’d mentioned in the two previous posts on this topic. The result is a one-line command which will create a
dev.FreshPorts.org now using jail Read More »