ports git repo frozen - anything important I missed?

[bsd-harry]

Hi,

I'm wondering about the ongoing 36 hours caesura on https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/


Does anybody know the reason?

Simply everybody on busy with real life? Never seen before ;-)

Best,
-harry

 

[SirDice]

Summer holiday season?

 

[Charlie_]

C

Post in thread 'The Random Thread'

Today at 12:03 AM

Ports Repository Freeze

You may have noticed that the ports repository has been frozen for nearly 24
hours now, at the time of writing.  Our statement regarding the situation and
next steps follows.

• Charlie_

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[cracauer@]

Somebody fatfingered something. This also caused the inability to `pkg update` on releases this week.

 

[Charlie_]

Summer holiday season?

It is true that there are few committers in the Southern Hemisphere.

 

[cracauer@]

I remember that time when a ports committer made a random import with lots of build artifacts including a work/ directory - and an emacs *.core file

 

[Charlie_]

emacs.core is also mentioned in the 30th-anniversary.

FreeBSD 30th Anniversary Special Edition | FreeBSD Foundation

Table of Contents (Now with article PDFs) I'm Not From Yorkshire, I promise! How Time Flies: A Personal Timeline FreeBSD and the Early Unix Communities Early FreeBSD Ports Recollections: An Interview with David Greenman Lawrence Installing FreeBSD 1.0: 30 Years On FreeBSD at 30 Years: Its...

freebsdfoundation.org

 

[fahrenheit]

Somebody fatfingered something. This also caused the inability to `pkg update` on releases this week.

yeah, happens a lot more than people care to admit..

Suffered this also on the past, bfg was of help to remove the blobs from the tree with minimum fuss (though it doesn't help people that had already pulled the affected repo).
As for the *.core file, that has to go on the .gitignore root file from the start of the repo. Maximum file size is a pain because you can only reliably block that server side (which github does but apparently cgit.freebsd did not).

Learning experiences all around