Re: portsnap and the imminent demise of svn-cvs ports tree export

2013-01-23 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
now show up even faster in portsnap. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org clusteradm and FreeBSD Security Officer ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Ports cvs deprecation warning

2013-01-10 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
heard people use that (not many, but some). -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD wiki offline for a bit

2013-01-08 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 6 January 2013 20:40, Simon L. B. Nielsen si...@freebsd.org wrote: Hey, tl;dr Wiki is back, and everybody with account need to reset their password. Small followup. The wiki's surge protection (yet again) got confused and blocked the frontend proxy. I think it should be fixed now. If you

Re: Using http mirrors

2013-01-06 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
this patch? It will affect large numbers of ports. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=174427 Please apply this. HTTP is a generally saner protocols, especially for people behind firewalls. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD wiki offline for a bit

2013-01-06 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
Hey, tl;dr Wiki is back, and everybody with account need to reset their password. On 4 January 2013 22:38, Simon L. B. Nielsen si...@freebsd.org wrote: Due to a security issue in the moinmoin wiki software, the FreeBSD wiki will be offline for a bit. I do not yet know if the issue actually

FreeBSD wiki offline for a bit

2013-01-04 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
24 hours, assuming not too much gets in the way. For further reference see: http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes and http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.announce/1754 . PS. this is entirely unrelated to the 2012 November FreeBSD.org compromise. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD

Re: Ports make fetchindex still getting outdated INDEX-9

2012-12-13 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
I had forgotten about it again. I will try and to get it fixed within the next couple of days. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Via mobile Sorry about the top posting On 13 Dec 2012 16:57, Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org wrote: I saw a thread last month about the servers that build INDEX files being down

GNATS web and cvsweb fixed

2012-11-21 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
Hey, FYI, GNATS web and cvsweb are now fixed. Do note that cvsweb is now running off a mirror so changes does not show up right away. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: svn: E175002: REPORT of '/ports/!svn/me': Could not send request: Operation not permitted (http://svn.freebsd.org)

2012-10-11 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
for current list of mirrors. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [HEADSUP] current switched by default to pkgng

2012-10-10 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
, but I'm still not sure what this means when I use ports and not packages. Does it mean that I should install pkg to have /var/db/pkg managed, but otherwise ports keeps working the same way, or? -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: [Full-disclosure] nvidia linux binary driver priv escalation exploit

2012-08-10 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
it when/if one is assigned. Eh, why wouldn't a CVE name not be assigned? If none is we should ask MITRE to assign one, but it would surprise me if NVIDIA or a Linux vendor hasn't done this already. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Svn mirror seed has UUID wrong

2012-07-21 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
. PS. no, the base seed does not have this problem. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org admins team ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports

Re: Svn mirror seed has UUID wrong

2012-07-21 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 21 Jul 2012, at 21:25, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: If you don't have a local doc or ports svn mirror you can stop reading now. When creating the doc and ports svn mirrors, which the seeds on http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/subversion/ are created from, I forgot to set

Upgrade port audit now!

2012-03-11 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
-11e1-9166-001e4f0fb9b1.html Feature safe: yes With hat: so -- Simon L. B. Nielsen FreeBSD Deputy Security Officer ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail

Portaudit database build fixed

2011-09-05 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
Hey, Just FYI, I accidentally stopped the jail which built the portaudit database a few days ago and didn't notice since I had forgotten the portaudit database was actually built there. It has been fixed now. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-12-04 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
master site - currently we are at ~1TB. The xz compression gives as significant space saving - so there is already a need. PS. anyone saying a 1 TB etc. disk is cheap will be ignored. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list