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Kyle Evans has posted to the FreeBSD announcement mailing list, letting the public know the FreeBSD ports tree has been temporarily frozen. "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. A 150MB binary file was recently committed to the ports tree and, as a result, core@ made the decision to implement a temporary freeze of the ports tree in order to implement some clean up efforts. The commit in question severed our ports tree mirroring to github.com due to their filesize hard limit of 100MB, and introduced a blob of questionable licensing into the repository history.Given the importance of github.com mirroring to our community, we are actively taking steps to remove the offending commits and restore mirroring to the external services. There is no concern that the ports tree has been compromised. The freeze was entirely intended to limit the number of commits that will need to be re-written in order to issue a corrected state. "The binary file in question appears to be an exectuable which would normally be installed by its port rather than provided as part of a port. |