ports

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.

Hi, I have a newbie question related to being careful not to mix the PKG binary approach with the (building from) Ports approach. The handbook warns against using a mix of these two approaches and the likely eventual collision of binaries, but I think I might be reading it too strictly. Does...

So, something aggravating occurred with freebsd a couple days back, where i was attempting to get into graphics programming, i installed glad, and didn't pay attention, and it deleted my entire desktop and every graphical program, this occurred on 14-CURRENT. Would anyone know why? I'd want to...

I have search for an answer but didn't find it. first, a short description: I would like to build ports in a jail. From an example and the handbook suggestion, I have mounted the ports tree (ro) into the jail and have set "WRKDIRPREFIX=/tmp" etc. ... for places that must be writable. Result...

I have been running FreeBSD 14-Current for about a month now and have been enjoying it besides the odd crashes here and there. It is not as many crashes as OpenBSD 7.2-Current was giving me however. I am stuck with 14-Current for now because on my Intel 2.5GB Lan and RX 6600 GPU not being...

I see that openSSL has to be built for tls 1.3 support, but i am not sure of how to do that on freeBSD 13.1 RELEASE.

gnutls-3.7.3_1,1 What do those postfixes mean? I understand the 3.7.3 part but not the "_1" part and the ",1" part. I don't remember them extending to binary packages either.

I see the following problem when I want to update the FreeBSD 12.3 packages: Checking integrity... done (3 conflicting) - boehm-gc-threaded-8.2.2 conflicts with boehm-gc-8.0.6 on /usr/local/include/gc/gc_pthread_redirects.h - libxcvt-0.1.2_1 conflicts with xorg-server-1.20.14,1 on...

Good Day FreeBSD Forums, I upgraded from 12.2 to 12.3 and have been trying to update all my ports. There was a problem trying to update Sudo (using portmaster, I forget what the exact error was) so I uninstalled Sudo and then tried re-installing it, and this is where I run into the errors...

Here is an example of a single FreeBSD port in 3 terminals in the screenshot. The ncurses menu on the left shows the menu after make config is run from the port directory. You can see the graphics/blender directory and a few files, including the Makefile in the top right terminal. In the bottom...