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Port details on branch 2025Q2
rtorrent BitTorrent Client written in C++
0.15.5 net-p2p 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 0.16.6_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: eduardo@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-05-02 12:12:04
Last Update: 2025-06-22 20:23:32
Commit Hash: 75a5701
License: GPLv2 GPLv3
WWW:
https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent
Description:
Rtorrent is a ncurses BitTorrent Client written in C++ for *nix. Main Features are : * Use an URL or file path to add torrents at runtime * Stop/delete/resume torrents * Optionally loads/saves/deletes torrents automatically in a session directory * Safe fast resume support * Peer's download speed calculated from incoming HAVE messages * Peer download progress
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Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/rtorrent
  2. @sample /usr/local/etc/rtorrent/rtorrent.conf.sample
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/rtorrent-0.15.5/catalog.mk
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/rtorrent-0.15.5/LICENSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/rtorrent-0.15.5/GPLv2
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/rtorrent-0.15.5/GPLv3
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • rtorrent>0:net-p2p/rtorrent
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/net-p2p/rtorrent/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install net-p2p/rtorrent
  • pkg install rtorrent
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: rtorrent
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1750621419 SHA256 (rtorrent-0.15.5.tar.gz) = 847a3fdb69188c621950a3a74eaf8dbc464118659c9638d10c7cf5df57508b17 SIZE (rtorrent-0.15.5.tar.gz) = 866800

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Library dependencies:
  1. libcurl.so : ftp/curl
  2. libtorrent.so : net-p2p/libtorrent
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for rtorrent-0.15.5: DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation IPV6=on: IPv6 protocol support ====> XML format or parser support: you can only select none or one of them TINYXML=on: XML parser support via TinyXML XMLRPC=off: Compile with xmlrpc-c support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
net-p2p_rtorrent
USES:
compiler:c++17-lang ncurses pkgconfig
pkg-message:
For install:
An example configuration file for rtorrent has been installed in /usr/local/share/examples/rtorrent. Read it for more information on how to tweak rtorrent configuration.
Master Sites:
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  1. https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/download/v0.15.5/
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Number of commits found: 4

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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0.15.5
22 Jun 2025 20:23:32
commit hash: 75a57013443d0be27f03653a4013d11c32ca4a38commit hash: 75a57013443d0be27f03653a4013d11c32ca4a38commit hash: 75a57013443d0be27f03653a4013d11c32ca4a38commit hash: 75a57013443d0be27f03653a4013d11c32ca4a38 files touched by this commit
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) search for other commits by this committer
net-p2p/{lib,r}torrent: Update to 0.15.5

ChangeLog:	https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.15.5
MFH:		2025Q2 (bugfix release)
(cherry picked from commit 6fbc9c4423ea73e6045b26f8e8855ccce69dde94)
0.15.4_1
22 Jun 2025 20:23:14
commit hash: 509d6fe6a156c07b3c2b43e0ccd3d5f304c72a06commit hash: 509d6fe6a156c07b3c2b43e0ccd3d5f304c72a06commit hash: 509d6fe6a156c07b3c2b43e0ccd3d5f304c72a06commit hash: 509d6fe6a156c07b3c2b43e0ccd3d5f304c72a06 files touched by this commit
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Ivan Rozhuk
net-p2p/rtorrent: drop EXAMPLES, add rc.d script

PR:		256694
(cherry picked from commit 7d8f99aae161bbd82ee329a229410d4568894482)
0.15.4
01 Jun 2025 17:57:30
commit hash: e1fc31252d310d821c243bee06f1b11bf1b69a8ecommit hash: e1fc31252d310d821c243bee06f1b11bf1b69a8ecommit hash: e1fc31252d310d821c243bee06f1b11bf1b69a8ecommit hash: e1fc31252d310d821c243bee06f1b11bf1b69a8e files touched by this commit
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) search for other commits by this committer
net-p2p/{lib,r}torrent: Update to 0.15.4

ChangeLog:	https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.15.4
MFH:		2025Q2 (bugfix release)
(cherry picked from commit 5bb5070238f9977dee333abcc7ff7ca615b512c5)
0.15.3
02 May 2025 11:55:34
commit hash: 247e9c68f14f7bfb420de630a6c7b509008d99cbcommit hash: 247e9c68f14f7bfb420de630a6c7b509008d99cbcommit hash: 247e9c68f14f7bfb420de630a6c7b509008d99cbcommit hash: 247e9c68f14f7bfb420de630a6c7b509008d99cb files touched by this commit
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) search for other commits by this committer
net-p2p/{lib,r}torrent: Update to 0.15.3

ChangeLog:	https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.15.3
MFH:		2025Q2 (bugfixes)

(cherry picked from commit c3de52014b178286ae93cb41d3d00b49aa3b9343)

Number of commits found: 4