portscout 0.8.1 ports-mgmt =3

A tool to scan for new versions of FreeBSD ports
Maintained by: shaun@FreeBSD.org
Port Added: 05 Feb 2007 01:09:12
License: not specified in port

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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.

WWW: http://www.inerd.com/software/portscout/

CVSWeb : Sources : Main Web Site : Distfiles Availability : PortsMon

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NOTE: FreshPorts displays only required dependencies information. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Required To Build: lang/perl5.8
Required To Run: databases/p5-DBI, devel/p5-Proc-Queue, net/p5-Net, net/p5-URI, textproc/p5-XML-XPath, mail/p5-MIME-Lite, www/p5-libwww, databases/p5-DBD-Pg, lang/perl5.8
Required Libraries: databases/postgresql83-client
There are no ports dependent upon this port

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To install the port: cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portscout/ && make install clean
To add the package: pkg_add -r portscout

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Configuration Options

===> The following configuration options are available for portscout-0.8.1:
     SQLITE3=off (default) "Use SQLite backend instead of PostgreSQL"
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings

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Master Sites:

http://mirror.inerd.com/FreeBSD/distfiles/portscout/

http://www.atarininja.org/~wxs/distfiles/

http://www.inerd.com/software/portscout/

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/

Update to 0.8.1.

- Get Rid MD5 support

With hat:       portmgr (myself)

Add missing bsd.port.options.mk include.

PR:             ports/149265 [1]
Submitted by:   Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> [1], ale

Upgrade to version 0.8.

This represents a milestone release over the previous version, and
includes significant improvements to the version detection and
comparison algorithms, support for the new SourceForge mirror layout
(and an easy way to add future workarounds), theoretical support for
NetBSD's pkgsrc and OpenBSD ports, support for providing a list of
software in an XML file in place of ports, and support for SQLite.
Of course, there are also many optimisations and general bug fixes.

Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.

The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).

PR:             ports/124340
Submitted by:   edwin@
Approved by:    portmgr (pav)

Add patch to fix SQL schema typo.

Upgrade to 0.7.4.

Welcome bsd.perl.mk.  Add support for constructs such as USE_PERL5=5.8.0+.
Drop support for antique perl.

Work done by:   gabor
Sponsored by:   Google Summer of Code 2007
Hat:            portmgr

- Update to 0.7.3, which fixes several minor bugs.
- Add some preliminary switches for other databases.
- Add a MASTER_SITES mirror.

Populate a new ports-mgmt category. List of moved ports:

  devel/portcheckout -> ports-mgmt/portcheckout
  devel/portlint -> ports-mgmt/portlint
  devel/portmk -> ports-mgmt/portmk
  devel/porttools -> ports-mgmt/porttools
  misc/instant-tinderbox -> ports-mgmt/instant-tinderbox
  misc/porteasy -> ports-mgmt/porteasy
  misc/portell -> ports-mgmt/portell
  misc/portless -> ports-mgmt/portless
  misc/tinderbox -> ports-mgmt/tinderbox
  security/jailaudit -> ports-mgmt/jailaudit
  security/portaudit -> ports-mgmt/portaudit
  security/portaudit-db -> ports-mgmt/portaudit-db
  security/vulnerability-test-port -> ports-mgmt/vulnerability-test-port

17 vulnerabilities affecting 41 ports have been reported in the past 14 days

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