- FreeBSD project froze its ports repository for over 48 hours after a 150MB binary file was committed.
- The commit caused GitHub mirroring to fail due to GitHub's 100MB file size limit and introduced questionable licensing.
- The binary is the entire github-copilot-cli Linux binary, committed accidentally by the port maintainer.
- The FreeBSD port is not a native port but a wrapper to run the Linux binary via Linuxulator.
- No security compromise was detected; users' systems are not at risk.
- The FreeBSD team is rolling back the commit, fixing the issue, and investigating how it happened.
- The ports tree remains frozen at the time of writing.