BSD Ports

ports-mgmt/portscout 0.8.1.6_3 DragonFly

Tool to scan for new versions of FreeBSD ports

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
BSD2CLAUSE
Categories
ports-mgmt
Package size
54.2 KiB, 220.7 KiB installed

Description

Portscout is a tool which looks for new versions of software in the FreeBSD ports tree, and potentially other software repositories. It is also possible to provide an arbitrary list of software in a simple XML format.

Various factors make this task a bit more difficult than it might initially seem. In particular, the array of weird and wonderful versioning schemes software vendors manage to come up with.

Portscout spawns several child processes and does its version checking in parallel, while attempting to best-guess strange-looking version numbers, navigate around unhelpful sites and web servers, and contend with the CPU-heavy rapidly-expanding FreeBSD ports system.

In addition to all this, it is possible to generate nice HTML reports and send reminder mails to interested parties.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.8.1.6, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlyports-mgmt/portscout0.8.1.6_3 newestnone known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDports-mgmt/portscout0.8.1.6_3 newestnone known-[email protected]-
NetBSDwip/portscout by name0.8.1none known-[email protected]-
MidnightBSDports-mgmt/portscout0.8.1.6 newestno data-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDports-mgmt/portscout0.8.1.6_3 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDports-mgmt/portscout0.8.1.6_3 newestno data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install portscout

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/ports-mgmt/portscout && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 12

No port depends on this one.