Port-maintenance-tools

Jul 20, 2023

Meta-port for administrative tools to maintain ports

Here is a meta-port for a collection of tools that will help you manage your ports tree, both for installation, deinstallation, updating, and browsing. Many FreeBSD administrators and users find these tools to be helpful, especially when working with building ports from their sources.



Checkout these related ports:
  • Wanted-ports - Just depend on a configurable, arbitrary set of other ports
  • Synth - Custom package repository builder for FreeBSD and DragonFly
  • Submodules2tuple - GH_TUPLE generator for GitHub projects with submodules
  • Sccache-overlay - Ports overlay for sccache
  • Reprise - Port testing system
  • Rc-subr-jail - Shell library to help writing RC scripts with jail support
  • Py-skog - Generate visual dependency trees for FreeBSD ports
  • Py-pytoport - Generate FreeBSD ports from Python modules on PyPI
  • Py-freebsd-ports - Parse FreeBSD Ports INDEX, provide search API
  • Psearch - Utility for searching the FreeBSD Ports Collection
  • Poudriere - Port build and test system
  • Poudriere-devel - Port build and test system
  • Portupgrade - FreeBSD ports/packages administration and management tool suite
  • Portupgrade-devel - FreeBSD ports/packages management tool (devel version)
  • Portupdate-scan - Display pertinent parts of {PORTSDIR}/UPDATING