Bug 205988

Summary:	ports-mgmt/portscout: False-positive of GitHub version update detection
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Yuri Victorovich <yuri>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	Martin Wilke <miwi>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	koobs, miwi
Priority:	---	Keywords:	needs-patch, needs-qa
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Yuri Victorovich freebsd_committer

2016-01-07 00:12:37 UTC

Comment 1 Yuri Victorovich freebsd_committer

2016-01-07 00:15:06 UTC

I got this notification:

Port                                            | Current version | New version
------------------------------------------------+-----------------+------------
mail/mailpile                                   | 0.5.2           | gunsmoke--thelastapachetag

0.5.2 was released Aug 9, 2015
Gunsmoke--TheLastApacheTag was released Jul 1, 2015

So it detected the wrong version for some reason.

Comment 2 Martin Wilke freebsd_committer

2016-01-07 05:07:19 UTC

Hi Yuri

Portscout guesses based on a few factors and, if it gets a reply to a
GET request for a file that it asked for that it thinks is a 'bigger
number...' 

hhttp://portscout.freebsd.org/info/portscout-portconfig.txt

This information will let you disable portscout, ignore certain
versions, etc.


Martin

Comment 3 Yuri Victorovich freebsd_committer

2016-01-07 05:22:44 UTC

Martin,

But there is no "bigger number" there, this is a problem. Also the release date is earlier. So it shouldn't suggest such version.

Yuri

Comment 4 Martin Wilke freebsd_committer

2016-01-07 05:30:08 UTC

(In reply to yuri from comment #3)

Hi

This can be happened, we have seen tha that in the past very often, as said,
limited in the Makefile or ignore that :).

See also
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2016-January/101552.html