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I guys, I'd really want to try to became the maintainer of one of my favorite software which is Speedata Publisher, I have time to dedicate and I've gotten a spare laptop which is fairly recent (AMD Ryzen 2300 APU), and I wonder which version should I use to make the port, if the development...

Howdy, I used to have a custom .dlalogrc that changed the ports config dialog colours, but I get the feeling that /usr/bin/dialog isn't used any more by ports (maybe?). The man page for ports-mgmt/portconfig tells me I can use NO_COLOR=1 which is an improvement (for me), but is there a way to...

FreeBSD 14.1 Freshly updated ports tree root@alpha:/usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick7 # env FLAVOR=nox11 make CONFIG_DONE_IMAGEMAGICK7-NOX11=1 SETENV=env ===> ImageMagick7-nox11-7.1.1.26_4 depends on package: gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 - found ===> ImageMagick7-nox11-7.1.1.26_4 depends on...

it would be cool if ports supported compiling a port to a specific directory (ie ~/user or ~/fort) and allowed each binary to be statically compiled, not as an option to each port maybe, but maybe as a wrapper ie cd /usr/ports/nntp/pan fortsnap /home/extra-ceo/fort/ make -j which should take...

Hi, when I run make config-recursive on a port such as security/strongswan, do ports not longer relevant due to an earlier choice get prompted for? ie. is the list of ports requiring configuration decided when the make command is run, or is it dynamically built as you select and deselect port...

Hi, I'm looking for a second opinion on whether I've run into a bug in pkg regarding local repositories. I currently build a small handful of packages locally from ports and also manually install them, but I wanted to try using a local pkg repository to handle that instead. On one of my...

Will users have to install ports tree while installing FreeBSD? Because portsnap was deprecated

I am trying to get forgejo running as a service in a jail. When I manually start forgejo as the git user it runs as expected, however attempting to get it to run with the included rc file provided by the ports package it errors out. Forgejo Port rc.d script When I start forgejo manually it...

Hello everyone! I'm using FreeBSD for a few years already, but I've never maintained any port, so the question is probably a little dummy. I want to become a maintainer of lang/swift, since I need it time by time and I'm an experienced Swift developer, so I at least know what is this and how...

Hi. When /usr/ports is populated, whereis searchs for the specified port in /usr/ports/ but i don't have /usr/ports populated and i have a ports tree in a different directory: /poudriere/ports/default. I couldn't find a proper whereis command to search for ports in that directory. I can use...

I'm working on making a program to deal with ports (as a layer on top of ports-mgmt/synth to simplify my use of it). In the course of doing so, while creating class names, method names, etc., I've found that I don't really have satisfying and/or clear terminology for various concepts, so I'm...

In which order should one update/upgrading the FreeBSD components [freebsd (components, world and kernel), pkg, ports] to preserve the integrity of the system?

I'm not sure what happened, but suddenly any attempt to run pkg says ld-elf.so.1: /usr/sbin/pkg: Undefined symbol "fetchDebug". I tried reinstalling it from ports, and I got this error ld-elf.so.1: /usr/bin/fetch: Undefined symbol "fetchRestartCalls", but I managed to download the file it wanted...

I can avoid FreeBSD 14 no longer. Can the ports tree from the release media be updated? Or do I have to start with the Handbook approved method of installing it with git?

This is a perennial question in my mind and also in the forums. What's driving me to ask it again is that I've recently spent some time doing Gentoo and there, I can easily see the tradeoffs - Gentoo allows the admin FULL control over the system and is very minimal and peppy, yet as cutting edge...

Hi all, A question, a few years ago I moved my Desktop machine from Linux to Ghost BSD. This was not advised by someone, but it looks ok, and I was too fuzzed from medication to take the step to FreeBSD or OpenBSD ( had some 20-year-old experience.... and used other Unix OS's (paid ones ))...

Hello there everyone! Sorry if this thread is a duplicate or violates the rules in any way, I researched as well as I could before posting. I realize that the FreeBSD way of ports configuration is by means of an Ncurses option selection menu for each package, however I do prefer as much as...

Hi! https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ and https://www.freshports.org/ ports are the same and are already installed/synchronized by default on fresh install if select ports? If not, how could I install and use them? I'm on 13.2

Any chance of getting urban Terror added to the ports? I followed Vermaden's post for native Urban Terror and it played perfectly. But it would be nice to have the option to pkg install urbanterror. I have an OpenBSD system now and to my shock its available via pkg_add UrbanTerror. Just a...

Hi all! For several days I have been trying to build science/py-tensorflow, but everything stops with various errors. If anyone can build this package with the CPUTYPE?=core2 option and put it in a public place I would be very grateful.