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Port details
libifconfig Library providing the functionality of ifconfig(8)
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Maintainer: saheed@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-06-25 11:48:06
Last Update: 2025-10-01 19:27:17
Commit Hash: 6c256c6
License: BSD3CLAUSE
WWW:
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/lib/libifconfig
Description:
Ports version of the base system ifconfig(8) library, libifconfig. libifconfig is a C library that provides programmatic access to most of the functionality offered by ifconfig(8).
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. include/libifconfig.h
  2. include/libifconfig_sfp.h
  3. include/libifconfig_sfp_tables.h
  4. lib/libifconfig.so
  5. lib/libifconfig.so.2
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/libifconfig-0.1/catalog.mk
  7. /usr/local/share/licenses/libifconfig-0.1/LICENSE
  8. /usr/local/share/licenses/libifconfig-0.1/BSD3CLAUSE
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • libifconfig>0:net/libifconfig
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/net/libifconfig/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install net/libifconfig
  • pkg install libifconfig
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: libifconfig
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1750761670 SHA256 (libifconfig-13.5_0.tar.gz) = b2bf5bd107ab75663736df3b918eed999a916fd0ed253ef7546c7633642ad934 SIZE (libifconfig-13.5_0.tar.gz) = 22474

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SHA256 (libifconfig-14.3_0.tar.gz) = 04069eacdf7ec216fad6769ab5fdc2d7e781cbb8e09f3d4356691984880f5fc7 SIZE (libifconfig-14.3_0.tar.gz) = 23709 SHA256 (libifconfig-b670c9bafc0e.tar.gz) = 87740e514a9c993ca4b7e1ed250df62aab766e60fd27e56e7b38dded4e835232 SIZE (libifconfig-b670c9bafc0e.tar.gz) = 23854

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
libifconfig
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest0.10.1-0.10.1---
FreeBSD:13:quarterly0.10.1-0.10.1---
FreeBSD:14:latest0.10.1-0.10.1---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly0.10.1-0.10.1---
FreeBSD:15:latest0.10.1n/a0.1n/a---
FreeBSD:15:quarterly-0.1n/a-n/a---
FreeBSD:16:latest--n/a-n/a---
This port has no dependencies.
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
net_libifconfig
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://github.com/MainKt/freebsd-ports/releases/download/libifconf/
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Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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0.1
01 Oct 2025 19:27:17
commit hash: 6c256c6adb790f0588b920d41a5fe4dfa550079fcommit hash: 6c256c6adb790f0588b920d41a5fe4dfa550079fcommit hash: 6c256c6adb790f0588b920d41a5fe4dfa550079fcommit hash: 6c256c6adb790f0588b920d41a5fe4dfa550079f files touched by this commit
Rene Ladan (rene) search for other commits by this committer
all: Remove support for end-of-life FreeBSD 14.2 (2025-09-30)

- bsd.port.mk: remove support for EOL FreeBSD 14.2
- devel/gitea-act_runner: update example to FreeBSD 14.3
- multimedia/kamoso: update comment to make it easier to find when looking for
end-of-life FreeBSD versions.
- net/libifconfig: prune end-of-life FreeBSD versions.
- net/libpfctl: prune end-of-life FreeBSD versions.
- x11-wm/hyprland: remove support for end-of-life FreeBSD 14.2

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52415

Reviewed by:	bofh, kde, kp, saheed, tagattie
Approved by:	portmgr (implicit)
0.1
25 Jun 2025 11:46:11
commit hash: 7ef80570eb17965c5012de15ee5d58ebad850aaccommit hash: 7ef80570eb17965c5012de15ee5d58ebad850aaccommit hash: 7ef80570eb17965c5012de15ee5d58ebad850aaccommit hash: 7ef80570eb17965c5012de15ee5d58ebad850aac files touched by this commit
Juraj Lutter (otis) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Muhammad Saheed
net/libifconfig: Add new port

Add libifconfig, a library providing the functionality of ifconfig(8)

PR:		287765

Number of commits found: 2