It was not long ago that I announced the deprecation of the security notificaiton report. This report depended upon manually designating a particular commit as security-related within the FreshPorts database. A lack of resources to perform this task meant that the report was rarely sent out. I suggested that everyone install and use portaudit, which […]
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On FreshPorts, virtual categories have no description. What are virtual cagtegories? Those categories that do not have a corresponding subdirectory in the ports tree. They are only used as secondary categories, and only for search purposes. FreshPorts can easily detect the creation of a new category, be it virtual or real (non-virtual). FreshPorts can grab
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The menu options on the left hand side of the page have changed. A “Watch List” grouping has been added, and links from other sections have been moved here. Putting all the watch list links in one box just makese sense. An added benefit: because they are all in one box, the link names can
You may have seen this in your new port report recently: 16 Jul 2006 http://www.FreshPorts.org/devel/p5-Class-Multimethods-Pure/ http://www.FreshPorts.org/devel/p5-Luka/ Exception handling and reporting framework What is missing is a description for devel/p5-Class-Multimethods-Pure. It should be there. And if you click on the link provided, you’ll see it. So why doesn’t the description appear in the report? It’s all
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I’m in Charlottetown today, and waiting for a meeting to finish (I’m not in that meeting), so I thought I’d take the time to post this about newsfeeds. FreshPorts now has more newsfeeds in more formats than you could ever possibly want or need. We now have 9 formats, all available from one central location.
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I’ve fixed the cache problem. Reading the last few posts here, you’d know there have been a few cache problems. I’m hesitant to say it’s now all fixed, but well, I hope so. The latest problem related to clearing cache entries. It was a permissions issue. The script which removes the cache entries runs as
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I’ve managed to fix the caching problem previously mentioned. I think I solved it the night I wrote about it, but I’m only writing about it now. The code has been in BETA since then and has just moved into production. The log output now looks more like this: Observer has noticed that processing has
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I found out exactly why the cache was not being cleared. Incorrect code. < my $CachingFile = $FreshPorts::Config::CachingRoot . '/cache/' . $category_name . '.' . $port_name; --- > my $CachingFile = $FreshPorts::Config::CachingRoot . ‘/cache/ports/’ . $category_name . ‘/’ . $port_name . ‘.*.html’; The first line is the existing production code. It refers to the old
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I know we have a caching problem. I suspect I know the cause. The symptoms of the problem are: a commit has been processed by the system. the commit can be viewed via the URL /commit.php?message_id=MESSAGEID the commit can be seen via index.php or date.php the commit cannot be view on the port page I
Florent Thoumie mentioned today that FreshPorts should not supply package installation instructions for Restricted ports. Why? This extract from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk indicates why # RESTRICTED – Prevent the distribution of distfiles and packages to # the FTP sites or on CDROM (e.g. forbidden by license # considerations). If we are not allowed to distribution the package,
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