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Port details
buffer Buffer sporadic I/O for faster tape and pipe throughput
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Deprecated DEPRECATED: No upstream updates since 1995. Switch to misc/mbuffer
Expiration Date EXPIRATION DATE: 2024-03-31
There is no maintainer for this port.
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Port Added: unknown
Last Update: 2024-03-07 22:57:07
Commit Hash: 4fd03fa
People watching this port, also watch:: unzip, libiconv, gmake, m4, gettext
License: not specified in port
Description:
This is a program designed initially to speed up writing tapes on remote tape drives, but may be used as a general pipe buffering utility. Note: You must have SYSVSHM support in FreeBSD kernel. The program splits itself into two processes. The first process reads (and reblocks) from stdin into a shared memory buffer. The second writes from the shared memory buffer to stdout. Doing it this way means that the writing side effectly sits in a tight write loop and doesn't have to wait for input. Similarly for the input side. It is this waiting that slows down other reblocking processes, like dd.
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/buffer
  2. share/man/man1/buffer.1.gz
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Dependency lines:
  • buffer>0:misc/buffer
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/misc/buffer/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install misc/buffer
  • pkg install buffer
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: buffer
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
SHA256 (buffer-1.19.tgz) = ec7da9f9737cd03c11a26f8380ab7d567b252b862b989da430b1e92db79b42c8 SIZE (buffer-1.19.tgz) = 34960

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
buffer
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest1.19_11.19_11.191.19_11.19_1-1.19-
FreeBSD:13:quarterly1.191.191.191.191.191.191.191.19
FreeBSD:14:latest1.19_11.19_11.191.19_11.19_11.19-1.19
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.191.19-1.191.191.191.191.19
FreeBSD:15:latest1.19_11.19_1n/a1.19_1n/a1.19_11.19_11.19_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/a---
This port has no dependencies.
This port is required by:
for Run

Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. multimedia/lxdvdrip*
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Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
misc_buffer
USES:
tar:tgz
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. http://ftp.belnet.be/pub/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/distfiles/
  2. http://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/
  3. http://ftp.uni-hannover.de/gentoo/distfiles/
  4. http://gentoo-mirror.flux.utah.edu/distfiles/
  5. http://www.mondorescue.org/download/MondoCD/TGZS/
  6. https://mirror.init7.net/gentoo/distfiles/
  7. https://mirror.leaseweb.com/gentoo/distfiles/
  8. https://mirror.rackspace.com/gentoo/distfiles/
  9. https://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/distfiles/
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Number of commits found: 20

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
1.19_1
07 Mar 2024 22:57:07
commit hash: 4fd03fa24576078b0499c262234de9555a2520accommit hash: 4fd03fa24576078b0499c262234de9555a2520accommit hash: 4fd03fa24576078b0499c262234de9555a2520accommit hash: 4fd03fa24576078b0499c262234de9555a2520ac files touched by this commit
Alan Somers (asomers) search for other commits by this committer
misc/buffer: deprecate

It's had no upstream since 1995, it sometimes fails with EFAULT, and it
can be adequately replaced by misc/mbuffer.

PR:		276644
Approved by:	diizzy (ports)
Sponsored by:	Axcient
1.19_1
09 Jan 2024 15:41:03
commit hash: e235318f91cfe5251461a03a052726b6c07ccab4commit hash: e235318f91cfe5251461a03a052726b6c07ccab4commit hash: e235318f91cfe5251461a03a052726b6c07ccab4commit hash: e235318f91cfe5251461a03a052726b6c07ccab4 files touched by this commit
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer
misc/buffer: avoid patching Makefile

Use MAKE_ARGS to override definition in the Makefile instead of
patching.

While here eliminate use of MAN1PREFIX and move manpage to share/man
1.19
20 Jul 2022 14:22:28
commit hash: b832da1849e4bcfff05da62c69ee4a556e83d2d1commit hash: b832da1849e4bcfff05da62c69ee4a556e83d2d1commit hash: b832da1849e4bcfff05da62c69ee4a556e83d2d1commit hash: b832da1849e4bcfff05da62c69ee4a556e83d2d1 files touched by this commit
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) search for other commits by this committer
misc: remove 'Created by' lines

A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:

  *  Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>
  *  Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>
  *  Alan E <alane@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Alex Semenyaka <alex@rinet.ru>
  *  Alex Stangl <alex@stangl.us>
  *  Alexander Logvinov <avl@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Alexander Logvinov <ports@logvinov.com>
  *  Alexander Nusov <alexander.nusov@nfvexpress.com>
  *  Alexander Timoshenko <gonzo@univ.kiev.ua>
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1.19
06 Apr 2021 14:31:07
commit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344eb files touched by this commit
Mathieu Arnold (mat) search for other commits by this committer
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
1.19
02 Mar 2018 22:34:53
Revision:463452Original commit files touched by this commit
brooks search for other commits by this committer
Work around the lack of definition of union semun per POSIX.

When feasible do this by adding -D_WANT_SEMUN to CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS.
Where this fails due to ports not honoring C*FLAGS, patch using
__FreeBSD_version to enable the definition.

PR:		224300, 224443 (exp-run)
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
Exp-run:	antoine
Sponsored by:	DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14137
1.19
14 May 2015 10:15:09
Revision:386312Original commit files touched by this commit
mat search for other commits by this committer
MASTER_SITES cleanup.

- Replace ${MASTER_SITE_FOO} with FOO.
- Merge MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR into MASTER_SITES when possible. (This means 99.9%
  of the time.)
- Remove occurrences of MASTER_SITE_LOCAL when no subdirectory was present and
  no hint of what it should be was present.
- Fix some logic.
- And generally, make things more simple and easy to understand.

While there, add magic values to the FESTIVAL, GENTOO, GIMP, GNUPG, QT and
SAMBA macros.

Also, replace some EXTRACT_SUFX occurences with USES=tar:*.

Checked by:	make fetch-urlall-list
With hat:	portmgr
Sponsored by:	Absolight
1.19
29 May 2014 23:18:42
Revision:355759Original commit files touched by this commit
antoine search for other commits by this committer
Reset maintainer, maintainer no longer wishes to maintain those ports

With hat:	portmgr
1.19
26 Feb 2014 09:44:41
Revision:346172Original commit files touched by this commit
miwi search for other commits by this committer
- Stage support
20 Sep 2013 20:50:59
Revision:327745Original commit files touched by this commit Sanity Test Failure Refresh
bapt search for other commits by this committer
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
misc)
1.19
19 Mar 2011 12:38:54
Original commit files touched by this commit
miwi search for other commits by this committer
- Get Rid MD5 support
1.19
10 May 2006 22:37:39
Original commit files touched by this commit
edwin search for other commits by this committer
Remove USE_REINPLACE from ports starting with M
1.19
16 Dec 2005 06:11:44
Original commit files touched by this commit
lioux search for other commits by this committer
Fix build on OSVERSION < 500000: <sys/limits.h> -> <limits.h>

Submitted by:   maintainer
1.19
13 Dec 2005 17:33:18
Original commit files touched by this commit
lioux search for other commits by this committer
o Update to 1.19
o Add several patches from Gentoo portage CVS

Approved by:    maintainer (thanks jonny)
Obtained from:  Gentoo portage CVS
1.17.1
18 Mar 2004 02:52:47
Original commit files touched by this commit
trevor search for other commits by this committer
Add size data.

Approved by:    maintainers
1.17.1
06 Feb 2004 13:12:53
Original commit files touched by this commit
trevor search for other commits by this committer
Use PLIST_FILES (bento-tested, marcus-reviewed).
1.17.1
21 Feb 2003 12:48:19
Original commit files touched by this commit
knu search for other commits by this committer
De-pkg-comment.
1.17.1
10 Jul 2002 16:00:57
Original commit files touched by this commit
olgeni search for other commits by this committer
Fix build on post-4.6 stable (do not declare shmat).
08 Oct 2000 05:01:16
commit hash: fp1.4792@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.4792@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.4792@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.4792@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
asami search for other commits by this committer
Convert category misc to new layout.  
07 Jul 2000 19:44:50
commit hash: fp1.1678@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.1678@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.1678@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.1678@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
steve search for other commits by this committer
Use {MASTER,PATCH}_SITE_SUBDIR instead of make's sed capabilities.    
17 Jun 2000 01:14:42
commit hash: fp1.1029@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.1029@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.1029@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.1029@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
steve search for other commits by this committer
Use the distfiles now on ftp.freebsd.org instead of from my home directory   on
freefall.    

Number of commits found: 20