Ports Repository Frozen

[FreeBSD News]

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The ports repository has been frozen to revert a very large commit. There is no concern that the tree has been compromised. More information about the freeze can be found on the 2026 Ports Freeze page.

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[victort]

Duplicate thread?

 

[SirDice]

Is was. I just deleted the earlier one. It picked up an incorrect link from the RSS feed. The feed got corrected which cause this second post to trigger. Keeping this one, the other had the wrong link in it.

Addendum, it wasn't so much the link, but the anchor was pointing at the wrong date.

 

[Phishfry]

I wonder what port tried to add an 150MB binary to itself....

Does anybody have the skinny?

Let me take a wild guess.
AI slop port tried to slopplidy slop it up.

 

[cracauer@]

I wonder what port tried to add an 150MB binary to itself....

Does anybody have the skinny?

Let me take a wild guess.
AI slop port tried to slopplidy slop it up.

It was claude code, yes.

ETA: actually it was copilot, sorry.

 

[Phishfry]

My first thought was oh poor python but it was not them....

 

[Phishfry]

Under attack at every front...

And people are gobbling it up..

 

[cracauer@]

Repair instructions for your ports tree have been posted to FreeBSD-announce.

 

[akil]

Is this the reason of

git repack

that runs every pull ?

 

[mer]

ETA: actually it was copilot, sorry.

Was it copilot that added itself as "co-author/co-commiter" through vscode?

 

[resora]

The large file that caused the problem during the upgrade to the new version was placed in the github-copilot-cli port, which distributes a command-line utility for working with the GitHub Copilot service. GitHub provides the utility only as pre-built binary builds for Linux, without the source code. Since October of last year, the github-copilot-ci port has distributed similar builds for running on FreeBSD via Linuxlator (the builds are downloaded during port installation, but due to an error during the upgrade to version 1.0.72, the 149 MB copilot executable was included in the port itself).

 

[Espionage724]

Is it really a FreeBSD port if it requires Linuxlator?

 

[cracauer@]

Is it really a FreeBSD port if it requires Linuxlator?

Yeah. And it is a binary. But it still counts as a port. Certainly pretty far from open source.

 

[NapoleonWils0n]

The Disneyfication of the Freebsd ports repository

 

[cracauer@]

The Disneyfication of the Freebsd ports repository

There have always been FreeBSD ports of Linux binaries. Eg. VMWare workstation.

 

[NapoleonWils0n]

There is a Disney film called Frozen
in case anyone didnt get the reference

As in a Disney themed ports repo

 

[scottro]

Sheesh, NapoleonWils0n, Let it go. (Another reference to the movie for those who think I'm criticizing NapoleonWils0n).
...Sigh, Ok, I'll see myself out. It seemed funnier as I typed it.