FreshPorts News

I should have a look at net/svnup and see if it’s better for FreshPorts than svn.

Compare the pages for ruby18 on prod, dev, and beta. It seems they disagree on what versions are affected. I’m not sure if this is a pkg_verison issue or not.

If you’re committing a port, the physical category must be included in CATEGORIES. That is, sysutils/bacula-server/Makefile must have sysutils in CATEGORIES. When people move ports, they often overlook that issue. In a recent commit, 25 ports failed this test. Proposal: add a new sanity test which checks for this situation and alerts the committer.

If a vuxml entry is updated, and the ranges change, those changes are not recorded in FreshPorts. This came to my attention from the FreeBSD Security team. They noticed that for the recent Oracla Java vuln FreshPorts had all versions for > 7. It boiled down to this: www.freshports.org/vuxml.php?vid=16846d1e-f1de-11e1-8bd8-0022156e8794 [1] differs from this: www.vuxml.org/freebsd/16846d1e-f1de-11e1-8bd8-0022156e8794.html [2] [...]

Brad Davis wrote in to explain that the home page for net-mgmt/nagios-snmp-plugins-extras on beta is wrong. It is missing the hostname for the URL. Indeed it is. And it’s wrong on the dev box too. I looked. I found out the cause. Here is a brief version of the code which pulls back the hostname [...]

When I went looking for commands to convert to the new jail strategy, I failed to find two. I have remedied that oversight now. make showconfig This command extracts the configuration items from the port. Like all the other scripts, it is fairly straight forward. The following is from make-showconfig.sh: make master-sites-all This command extracts [...]

The jail approach mentioned in previous articles has been implemented on the dev system. It took about 4 hours of coding this afternoon. The setup script I spent some time today gathering together the stuff I’d mentioned in the two previous posts on this topic. The result is a one-line command which will create a [...]

Recently, I wrote about using a jail to get better results. Today, I’m altering the scripts so they make use of this jail. For the most part, this will involve the creation of scripts that will run in the jail and duplicate the functionality of the existing FreshPorts code. What needs to be changed? I’m [...]

emmh wrote to mention that the vuxml posts on FreshPorts were out of date. I checked. Sure enough. They were. Checking the sites On the homepage, under Latest Vulnerabilities, the latest entry was dated Oct 17. And here it was, November. Something is wrong. The beta website showed Aug 14. And my dev website showed [...]

FreshPorts has always strived to be correct. Even when it’s difficult. One issue which always always proven difficult is ports that rely upon other ports. or cannot be installed with other ports. Case in point, sysutils/msktutil, which includes this message: IGNORE: cannot install: SASL support requested and openldap-client-2.4.20 is installed That’s not really appropriate on [...]