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Port details on branch 2026Q2
neo-cowsay Neo Cowsay written in Go
2.0.4_39 games on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 2.0.4_39Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: eduardo@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-10 17:07:00
Last Update: 2026-06-03 18:00:48
Commit Hash: 3d69120
License: ART10 GPLv1+
WWW:
https://github.com/Code-Hex/Neo-cowsay
Description:
cowsay is a configurable talking ASCII cow (and other characters), written in Go. It operates much as the figlet program does, and is written in the same spirit of silliness.
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  1. bin/neo-cowsay
  2. bin/neo-cowthink
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/neo-cowsay-2.0.4_39/catalog.mk
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/neo-cowsay-2.0.4_39/LICENSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/neo-cowsay-2.0.4_39/ART10
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/neo-cowsay-2.0.4_39/GPLv1+
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Dependency lines:
  • neo-cowsay>0:games/neo-cowsay
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/games/neo-cowsay/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install games/neo-cowsay
  • pkg install neo-cowsay
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: neo-cowsay
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1679515500 SHA256 (go/games_neo-cowsay/neo-cowsay-v2.0.4/v2.0.4.mod) = ba6dcf06f216832cbc41c1d07154d3cb498a89159c43e2b52fead061a695eaed SIZE (go/games_neo-cowsay/neo-cowsay-v2.0.4/v2.0.4.mod) = 393

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SHA256 (go/games_neo-cowsay/neo-cowsay-v2.0.4/v2.0.4.zip) = dc64392f992730452d0d2006ada0baec106a3173afaa6a5abc93c5f98759d23a SIZE (go/games_neo-cowsay/neo-cowsay-v2.0.4/v2.0.4.zip) = 24115 SHA256 (go/games_neo-cowsay/neo-cowsay-v2.0.4/golang-sys-v0.6.0_GH0.tar.gz) = b4f6d17c7a128f76169964b437cb66b3f2dbf9a33361928ec19dfecf7b03fc54 SIZE (go/games_neo-cowsay/neo-cowsay-v2.0.4/golang-sys-v0.6.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 1434234

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Build dependencies:
  1. go125 : lang/go125
Fetch dependencies:
  1. go125 : lang/go125
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Configuration Options:
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Options name:
games_neo-cowsay
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  1. https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/!code-!hex/!neo-cowsay/cmd/v2/@v/
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Number of commits found: 3

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
2.0.4_39
03 Jun 2026 18:00:48
commit hash: 3d69120c306222a137dfeae569a2da22bc33239ccommit hash: 3d69120c306222a137dfeae569a2da22bc33239ccommit hash: 3d69120c306222a137dfeae569a2da22bc33239ccommit hash: 3d69120c306222a137dfeae569a2da22bc33239c files touched by this commit		 Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) search for other commits by this committer 
various: Bump go ports for go-1.25.11 / go-1.26.4
2.0.4_38
09 May 2026 17:30:33
commit hash: a67ac1c1ac354b79ab6fab7d07a32be91e2c3654commit hash: a67ac1c1ac354b79ab6fab7d07a32be91e2c3654commit hash: a67ac1c1ac354b79ab6fab7d07a32be91e2c3654commit hash: a67ac1c1ac354b79ab6fab7d07a32be91e2c3654 files touched by this commit		 Adam Weinberger (adamw) search for other commits by this committer 
various: Bump ports for Go 1.25.10
2.0.4_37
10 Apr 2026 16:19:03
commit hash: 9c91901491db265de51255eeec8093989f724305commit hash: 9c91901491db265de51255eeec8093989f724305commit hash: 9c91901491db265de51255eeec8093989f724305commit hash: 9c91901491db265de51255eeec8093989f724305 files touched by this commit		 Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) search for other commits by this committer 
various: Bump go ports for go-1.25.9 / 1.26.2

Number of commits found: 3
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