FreshPorts News

This post replaces Updating a jail by replacing it – 1.0.1 This version is 2.0.0 because it is the first using pkgbase and the first using bsdinstall.

This is the first of several post reviewing and documenting the subversion to git conversion process.

The code for the front end of FreshPorts is at https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/ There are other repos there as well.

I’m moving from PostgreSQL 16 to PostgreSQL 18 at home in the basement.

Shortly after moving the jail dvl-ingress01 from Python 3.11 to Python 3.12, I started seeing these messages: The code in question ( link to source) is This should be easy enough to replace, knowing python.

This post replaces Updating a jail by replacing it This post is a proof-of-concept for creating a new jail instead of upgrading one in-place.

This post talks about vuxml entries I found in the FreshPorts database table which were not in the security/vuxml files.

I have a perl script.

This post is a work-in-progress.

One of my favorite FreeBSD features is security/vuxml – from it we get these great tools (provided by pkg): * pkg audit (what installed packages contain known vulnerabilities?)