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Port details on branch 2026Q2
rtorrent BitTorrent Client written in C++
0.16.11 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 0.16.11Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: eduardo@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-05-07 20:42:05
Last Update: 2026-05-07 20:23:07
Commit Hash: e1195d0
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
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
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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/rtorrent/lua/rtorrent.lua
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/rtorrent-0.16.11/catalog.mk
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/rtorrent-0.16.11/LICENSE
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/rtorrent-0.16.11/GPLv2
  7. /usr/local/share/licenses/rtorrent-0.16.11/GPLv3
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • rtorrent
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 = 1777634683 SHA256 (rtorrent-0.16.11.tar.gz) = bed2fefd69a01dbe95a02b330dd8c257d1aae2b4ee2ba4a9c4859da2fa404f65 SIZE (rtorrent-0.16.11.tar.gz) = 858663

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Test dependencies:
  1. cppunit>0 : devel/cppunit
Library dependencies:
  1. libtorrent.so : net-p2p/libtorrent
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for rtorrent-0.16.11: DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
net-p2p_rtorrent
USES:
compiler:c++17-lang ncurses pkgconfig
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/download/v0.16.11/
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Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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0.16.11
07 May 2026 20:23:07
commit hash: e1195d0d2b0f0be19f12076455cb6d2f737480cdcommit hash: e1195d0d2b0f0be19f12076455cb6d2f737480cdcommit hash: e1195d0d2b0f0be19f12076455cb6d2f737480cdcommit hash: e1195d0d2b0f0be19f12076455cb6d2f737480cd files touched by this commit
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) search for other commits by this committer
net-p2p/{lib,r}torrent: Update to 0.16.11

- Remove obsolete 2010 MS_INVALIDATE patch to reduce syscall overhead and
  rely on modern kernel virtual memory management
- Remove obsolete sys/types.h patch to rely on modern kernel headers and
  improve code portability.
- Fix tests linking on libtorrent
- Add tests to rtorrent

ChangeLog:	https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.16.11
		https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.16.10
		https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.16.9
		https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.16.8
		https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.16.7
		https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.16.6
PR:		292914
(cherry picked from commit f1a6d66e22e0552fb74d5038a22254da481e8efe)

Number of commits found: 1