Searching all commits
FreshPorts can now search all commits, not just /ports. Looking for commits in /src? Now you can. Click on Include /src tree. Enjoy.
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BSD Certification Group’s BSDA certification goes gold
After quite some time with little on the outside but lots of busy action on the inside, the BSD Certification Group‘s BSD Associate (BSDA) certification is now available! The BSD Associate certification marks the entry level for professional, community-based BSD certification, and work will continue to offer a certification for BSD Professionals (BSDP) next.
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make showconfig + OPTIONSFILE
Two posts ago, I wrote about adding the output of showconfig to each port. I also mentioned how I should override OPTIONSFILE so FreshPorts shows the default options settings, not those particular to the FreshPorts server. Here is the output of show config for sysutils/bacula-server: $ cd /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server $ make show config ===> The following
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MySQL bought. PostgreSQL not for sale.
A very key point in this article. Product vs project. Read: http://people.planetpostgresql.org/greg/index.php?/archives/120-Postgres-is-not-for-sale.html
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Configuration options – showconfig
When people ask me about packages versus ports, the one main advantage of ports over packages is the ability to set the configuration options. To set the configuration options for a given port, issue this command: make config Configuration options are stored in /var/db/ports. For example, the options for sysutils/bacula-server are: $ less /var/db/ports/bacula-server/options #
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Out of date ports tree
Today I noticed a problem with my development machine. It has been in storage for about a month. Yesterday it started processing FreshPorts emails again. Overnight, I noticed a strange error which I could not follow: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dec 31 20:33:11 ngaio FreshPorts[93781]: error executing make command for sysutils/rsyslog-mysql: This command (FreshPorts code
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Bounty for Flash9 in Opera in FreeBSD
Want $200? Free admission to BSDCan? And tutorials? Read this: http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html
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vuxml issue – vulnx.txt did not contain UTF-8
A few days ago, I noticed portaudit telling me about a few things that needed to be updated: # portaudit Affected package: rubygem-rails-1.2.3 Type of problem: rubygem-rails — session-fixation vulnerability. Reference: <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/30acb8ae-9d46-11dc-9114-001c2514716c.html> Affected package: rubygem-rails-1.2.3 Type of problem: rubygem-rails — JSON XSS vulnerability. Reference: <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/44fb0302-9d38-11dc-9114-001c2514716c.html> Affected package: rubygem-activesupport-1.4.2 Type of problem: rubygem-rails — JSON XSS
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MSNPTC/1.0
MSNPTC/1.0 appears to be a poorly written spider bot. It has no concept of distributing requests. I am not the only person that thinks this: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/2845.htm http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/details/4800/index.html http://boardreader.com/t/Spiders_Crawlers_509179/MSNPTC_1_0_2849.html Let me demonstrate with an example: $ grep -c “MSNPTC/1.0” freshports.org-access.log 1975 $ grep “MSNPTC/1.0” freshports.org-access.log | head -1 219.142.53.25 – – [01/Nov/2007:16:52:00 -0400] “GET /login.php?origin=%2Fcommit.php%3Fcategory%3Dwww %26port%3Deventum%26files%3Dyes%26message_id