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help2man Automatically generating simple manual pages from program output
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Maintainer: sunpoet@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2002-01-30 09:54:03
Last Update: 2024-04-13 13:03:19
Commit Hash: 62ed195
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License: GPLv3
WWW:
https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/
Description:
help2man is a tool for automatically generating simple manual pages from program output. It is intended to provide an easy way for software authors to include a manual page in their distribution without having to maintain that document. Given a program which produces resonably standard --help and --version outputs, help2man will attempt to re-arrange that output into something which resembles a manual page.
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/help2man
  2. share/man/man1/help2man.1.gz
  3. lib/help2man/bindtextdomain.so
  4. share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  5. share/man/da/man1/help2man.1.gz
  6. share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  7. share/man/de/man1/help2man.1.gz
  8. share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  9. share/man/el/man1/help2man.1.gz
  10. share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  11. share/man/eo/man1/help2man.1.gz
  12. share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  13. share/man/es/man1/help2man.1.gz
  14. share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  15. share/man/fi/man1/help2man.1.gz
  16. share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  17. share/man/fr/man1/help2man.1.gz
  18. share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  19. share/man/hr/man1/help2man.1.gz
  20. share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  21. share/man/hu/man1/help2man.1.gz
  22. share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  23. share/man/it/man1/help2man.1.gz
  24. share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  25. share/man/ja/man1/help2man.1.gz
  26. share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  27. share/man/ko/man1/help2man.1.gz
  28. share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  29. share/man/nb/man1/help2man.1.gz
  30. share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  31. share/man/pl/man1/help2man.1.gz
  32. share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  33. share/man/pt_BR/man1/help2man.1.gz
  34. share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  35. share/man/ro/man1/help2man.1.gz
  36. share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  37. share/man/ru/man1/help2man.1.gz
  38. share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  39. share/man/sr/man1/help2man.1.gz
  40. share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  41. share/man/sv/man1/help2man.1.gz
  42. share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  43. share/man/ta/man1/help2man.1.gz
  44. share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  45. share/man/uk/man1/help2man.1.gz
  46. share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  47. share/man/vi/man1/help2man.1.gz
  48. share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
  49. share/man/zh_CN/man1/help2man.1.gz
  50. /usr/local/share/licenses/help2man-1.49.3_1/catalog.mk
  51. /usr/local/share/licenses/help2man-1.49.3_1/LICENSE
  52. /usr/local/share/licenses/help2man-1.49.3_1/GPLv3
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • help2man>0:misc/help2man
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/misc/help2man/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install misc/help2man
  • pkg install help2man
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: help2man
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1674589516 SHA256 (help2man-1.49.3.tar.xz) = 4d7e4fdef2eca6afe07a2682151cea78781e0a4e8f9622142d9f70c083a2fd4f SIZE (help2man-1.49.3.tar.xz) = 228472
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
help2man
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest1.49.3_11.49.3_11.47.161.49.3_11.49.3_1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly1.49.3_11.49.3_11.49.31.49.3_11.49.3_1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest1.49.3_11.49.3_11.49.21.49.3_11.49.3_11.49.3-1.49.3
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.49.3_11.49.3_1-1.49.3_11.49.3_11.49.31.49.31.49.3
FreeBSD:15:latest1.49.3_11.49.3_1n/a1.49.3_1n/an/a1.49.3_11.49.3_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.49.3_11.49.3_1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest1.49.3_11.49.3_1n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. p5-Locale-gettext>=0 : devel/p5-Locale-gettext
  2. gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
  3. gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 : devel/gettext-runtime
  4. msgfmt : devel/gettext-tools
  5. perl5>=5.36<5.37 : lang/perl5.36
Runtime dependencies:
  1. p5-Locale-gettext>=0 : devel/p5-Locale-gettext
  2. perl5>=5.36<5.37 : lang/perl5.36
  3. indexinfo : print/indexinfo
Library dependencies:
  1. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
This port is required by:
for Build
  1. accessibility/py-speech-dispatcher
  2. accessibility/speech-dispatcher
  3. audio/exaile
  4. audio/jacktrip
  5. audio/pithos
  6. audio/zrythm
  7. benchmarks/sipp
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  2. cad/verilator
  3. databases/recutils
  4. deskutils/easystroke
  5. deskutils/presage
  6. devel/liblouis
  7. devel/xtensa-esp-elf
  8. dns/libidn2
  9. editors/poke
  10. editors/zile
  11. filesystems/squashfs-tools
  12. games/cavezofphear
  13. games/ldmud
  14. graphics/enblend
  15. graphics/klatexformula
  16. graphics/openexr
  17. graphics/xournalpp
  18. lang/gnu-cobol
  19. math/eprover
  20. math/sympow
  21. misc/deark
  22. misc/libmodulemd
  23. multimedia/gpodder
  24. net/amqpcat
  25. net/lavinmq
  26. net/pacemaker2
  27. net/trippy
  28. net-mgmt/cacti-spine
  29. net-mgmt/cacti88-spine
  30. net-mgmt/sendip
  31. print/harfbuzz
  32. print/lilypond
  33. print/lilypond-devel
  34. print/texinfo
  35. science/siconos
  36. security/ykclient
  37. security/yubico-piv-tool
  38. sysutils/bkt
  39. sysutils/cluster-glue
  40. sysutils/dateutils
  41. sysutils/deskflow
  42. sysutils/fileschanged
  43. sysutils/fwup
  44. sysutils/fwupd
  45. sysutils/gnome-firmware
  46. sysutils/grub2-bhyve
  47. sysutils/grub2-efi
  48. sysutils/grub2-pcbsd
  49. textproc/flex
  50. x11/mons
  51. x11/zenity4
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Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. audio/exaile-devel*
  2. comms/telldus-core*
  3. databases/couchdb*
  4. devel/xtensa-esp32-elf*
  5. multimedia/nordlicht*
  6. net/mininet*
  7. net/pacemaker*
  8. net/pacemaker1*
  9. net-im/talkatu*
  10. security/libu2f-host*
  11. sysutils/grub2*
  12. sysutils/sbsigntool*
  13. sysutils/squashfs-tools*
  14. textproc/soothsayer*
  15. www/httest*
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* - deleted ports are only shown under the This port is required by section. It was harder to do for the Required section. Perhaps later...
Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for help2man-1.49.3_1: NLS=on: Native Language Support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
misc_help2man
USES:
gmake localbase perl5 tar:xz gettext
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/gnu/help2man/
  2. ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/
  3. ftp://mirrors.rit.edu/gnu/help2man/
  4. http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gnu/help2man/
  5. http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/GNU/gnu/help2man/
  6. http://mirror.navercorp.com/gnu/help2man/
  7. https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/
  8. https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/help2man/
  9. https://mirror.netcologne.de/gnu/help2man/
  10. https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/help2man/
  11. https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/gnu/gnu/help2man/
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