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signal-desktop Cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service
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Port Added: 2023-10-10 13:21:22
Last Update: 2023-10-15 07:45:36
Commit Hash: 7a102b3
License: AGPLv3
WWW:
https://signal.org/
Description:
Signal is a cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service developed by the Signal Technology Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC. It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. It can also be used to make one-to-one and group voice and video calls,[16][17] and the Android version can optionally function as an SMS app
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/signal-desktop-6.34.0/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/signal-desktop-6.34.0/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/signal-desktop-6.34.0/AGPLv3
  4. bin/signal-desktop
  5. share/applications/signal-desktop.desktop
  6. share/pixmaps/signal-desktop.png
  7. share/signal-desktop/LICENSE.electron.txt
  8. share/signal-desktop/LICENSES.chromium.html
  9. share/signal-desktop/chrome_100_percent.pak
  10. share/signal-desktop/chrome_200_percent.pak
  11. share/signal-desktop/libEGL.so
  12. share/signal-desktop/libGLESv2.so
  13. share/signal-desktop/libffmpeg.so
  14. share/signal-desktop/libvk_swiftshader.so
  15. share/signal-desktop/libvulkan.so
  16. share/signal-desktop/locales/af-ZA.pak
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  113. share/signal-desktop/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/@signalapp/ringrtc/build/freebsd/libringrtc-x64.node
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  117. share/signal-desktop/vk_swiftshader_icd.json
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Dependency lines:
  • signal-desktop>0:net-im/signal-desktop
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/net-im/signal-desktop/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install net-im/signal-desktop
  • pkg install signal-desktop
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: signal-desktop
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS: aarch64 amd64
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1697273870 SHA256 (signal-desktop-6.34.0-yarn-cache.tar.gz) = fc3e8ef83cd33da3c2cb61377d5b261550b8e4a7d328be6db64f1fcd5304d608 SIZE (signal-desktop-6.34.0-yarn-cache.tar.gz) = 374320508

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SHA256 (signal-desktop-6.4.1-npm-cache.tar.gz) = 8acc503a579760faf8ea660d504f3b3ffadc495bf09584228da4cc9af20e33fe SIZE (signal-desktop-6.4.1-npm-cache.tar.gz) = 4466353 SHA256 (sqlcipher-4.5.5-fts5-fix--3.0.7--0.2.1-ef53ea45ed92b928ecfd33c552d8d405263e86e63dec38e1ec63e1b0193b630b.tar.gz) = ef53ea45ed92b928ecfd33c552d8d405263e86e63dec38e1ec63e1b0193b630b SIZE (sqlcipher-4.5.5-fts5-fix--3.0.7--0.2.1-ef53ea45ed92b928ecfd33c552d8d405263e86e63dec38e1ec63e1b0193b630b.tar.gz) = 75708533 SHA256 (signalapp-Signal-Desktop-v6.34.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 62cb1f6a3c835eca3a23fe379b43f93576e7d9a0e4d6098e8edab948fb671c10 SIZE (signalapp-Signal-Desktop-v6.34.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 42556130

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. libcrypto.a : security/openssl30
  2. libringrtc.so : multimedia/ringrtc
  3. libsignal_node.so : net-im/libsignal-node
  4. libsignal_tokenizer.a : devel/signal-fts5-extension
  5. app-builder>0 : devel/app-builder
  6. electron25 : devel/electron25
  7. jq : textproc/jq
  8. npm : www/npm-node18
  9. vips>0 : graphics/vips
  10. yarn : www/yarn-node18
  11. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  12. gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 : devel/gettext-runtime
  13. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  14. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  15. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  16. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  17. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  18. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  19. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  20. xi.pc : x11/libXi
  21. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  22. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  23. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Runtime dependencies:
  1. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  2. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  3. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  4. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  5. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  6. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  7. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  8. xi.pc : x11/libXi
  9. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  10. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  11. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Library dependencies:
  1. libasound.so : audio/alsa-lib
  2. libatk-bridge-2.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  3. libatspi.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  4. libcups.so : print/cups
  5. libdbus-1.so : devel/dbus
  6. libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
  7. libepoll-shim.so : devel/libepoll-shim
  8. libevent.so : devel/libevent
  9. libexpat.so : textproc/expat2
  10. libFLAC.so : audio/flac
  11. libffi.so : devel/libffi
  12. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  13. libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
  14. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  15. libicuuc.so : devel/icu
  16. libnspr4.so : devel/nspr
  17. libnss3.so : security/nss
  18. libopenh264.so : multimedia/openh264
  19. libopus.so : audio/opus
  20. libpci.so : devel/libpci
  21. libpng16.so : graphics/png
  22. libsnappy.so : archivers/snappy
  23. libwayland-client.so : graphics/wayland
  24. libwebp.so : graphics/webp
  25. libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
  26. libxshmfence.so : x11/libxshmfence
  27. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  28. libgbm.so : graphics/mesa-libs
  29. libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
  30. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  31. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  32. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  33. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  34. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  35. libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
  36. libxml2.so : textproc/libxml2
  37. libxslt.so : textproc/libxslt
  38. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
  39. libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
Patch dependencies:
  1. jq : textproc/jq
  2. yarn-node18>0 : www/yarn-node18
There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
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Options name:
net-im_signal-desktop
USES:
desktop-file-utils gettext-runtime gl gnome jpeg xorg
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/tar.gz/v6.34.0?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 5

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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6.34.0
15 Oct 2023 07:45:36
commit hash: 7a102b359333c48583a97070d538455358855e7bcommit hash: 7a102b359333c48583a97070d538455358855e7bcommit hash: 7a102b359333c48583a97070d538455358855e7bcommit hash: 7a102b359333c48583a97070d538455358855e7b files touched by this commit		 Mikael Urankar (mikael) search for other commits by this committer 
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 6.34.0

Changes:
  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v6.34.0
(cherry picked from commit 9a220b100573bb2e7b79177fdf9012625b9f272e)
6.33.0
15 Oct 2023 07:45:10
commit hash: 1c1e68f24738d2cefd74b524dd32d1319334bd46commit hash: 1c1e68f24738d2cefd74b524dd32d1319334bd46commit hash: 1c1e68f24738d2cefd74b524dd32d1319334bd46commit hash: 1c1e68f24738d2cefd74b524dd32d1319334bd46 files touched by this commit		 Mikael Urankar (mikael) search for other commits by this committer 
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 6.33.0

Changes:
  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v6.33.0
(cherry picked from commit 1560608eea884674990eb53ba00db06ecb221263)
6.32.0
10 Oct 2023 13:20:07
commit hash: 7529d05c8287dbd93b61ebbf731151704ff765ddcommit hash: 7529d05c8287dbd93b61ebbf731151704ff765ddcommit hash: 7529d05c8287dbd93b61ebbf731151704ff765ddcommit hash: 7529d05c8287dbd93b61ebbf731151704ff765dd files touched by this commit		 Mikael Urankar (mikael) search for other commits by this committer 
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 6.32.0

Changes:
  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v6.31.0
  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v6.32.0
(cherry picked from commit 596854248f524ad4b1f7f2371c921d7a3661ede9)
6.30.0_1
10 Oct 2023 13:19:46
commit hash: 7834c5e34c75214ddb8117037df5526037bf322ccommit hash: 7834c5e34c75214ddb8117037df5526037bf322ccommit hash: 7834c5e34c75214ddb8117037df5526037bf322ccommit hash: 7834c5e34c75214ddb8117037df5526037bf322c files touched by this commit		 Mikael Urankar (mikael) search for other commits by this committer 
net-im/signal-desktop: Fix build on aarch64

libvk_swiftshader is x86 only

Reported by:	jhibbits

(cherry picked from commit 3f85c64afc478f6352b311dcb10b1453f8039fed)
6.30.0_1
10 Oct 2023 13:19:40
commit hash: 5eb318d6ad6888660fb6f2f0715ddba7ced855c4commit hash: 5eb318d6ad6888660fb6f2f0715ddba7ced855c4commit hash: 5eb318d6ad6888660fb6f2f0715ddba7ced855c4commit hash: 5eb318d6ad6888660fb6f2f0715ddba7ced855c4 files touched by this commit		 Mikael Urankar (mikael) search for other commits by this committer 
net-im/signal-desktop: register missing lib dependency.

Reported by:	jhibbits

(cherry picked from commit ea1a4dc2ebce7325a2a991ed800e8e480460a08e)

Number of commits found: 5
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