RESTRICTED not correctly reported

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The RESTRICTED value on ports has been incorrectly recorded for some time. The code fix: $ cvs di port.pm Index: port.pm =================================================================== RCS file: /home/repositories/freshports-1/scripts/port.pm,v retrieving revision 1.54 diff -r1.54 port.pm 168c168 < $restricted_alt = FreshPorts::Utilities::NULLIfEmpty($dbh, $this->{restricted_alt}); — > $restricted_alt = FreshPorts::Utilities::NULLIfEmpty($dbh, $this->{restricted}); This is clearly a case of insufficient testing. I found this bug […]

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Virtual category: docs

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The new virtual category docs was recently added. Interestingly enough, FreshPorts has a /docs/ directory, which directly conflics with this. As such, if you were to browe to http://www.freshports.org/docs/, you’d see this: Index of /docs Name Last modified Size Description Parent Directory – 404-for-virtual-pages.php 25-Oct-2007 12:57 8.2K Using 404 errors to serve up virtual pages

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List of categories

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This is news to me (thanks Pav): $ make -V VALID_CATEGORIES accessibility afterstep arabic archivers astro audio benchmarks biology cad chinese comms converters databases deskutils devel docs dns editors elisp emulators finance french ftp games geography german gnome gnustep graphics hamradio haskell hebrew hungarian ipv6 irc japanese java kde kld korean lang linux lisp mail

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Ports freeze

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Vladimir Chukharev wrote in to mention a problem with the ports freeze. FreshPorts usually puts up a notice indicating a Ports Freeze is in effect when the freeze is inacted. This freeze is effected by making a special change to CVSROOT/approvers. FreshPorts looks for this change and sets a flag. The website notices this flag

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