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 ‘ …
I recently upgraded a non-public FreshPorts server from FreeBSD 8.2 to FreeBSD 8.4 using freebsd-update(8). As part of that process, I refreshed all the installed third-party applications via portupgrade(1). After this process was completed, I started noticing these errors: Use of uninitialized value $newOutput in string eq at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12/XML/Writer.pm line 473, line 109. What port …