portscout check not restrictable

Shaun Amott shaun at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 18 16:58:31 UTC 2007


On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:50:04PM +0100, Rene Ladan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently started to use ports-mgmt/portscout.  Although it is possible
> to restrict the database building (e.g. by maintainer), the check for
> new port versions itself isn't: it just seems to check all ports.
> 
> Is this a bug?
> 
> I have 'restrict maintainer = r.c.ladan at gmail.com' in portscout.conf
> 

Yes, I'm sorry - it's a known bug. I was putting off fixing it until I
had some other improvements. This patch will fix the problem until I
get around to updating the port:

http://people.freebsd.org/~shaun/patches/portscout-fix.diff

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Shaun Amott // PGP: 0x6B387A9A
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