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Port details
appstream-generator Fast AppStream metadata generator
0.10.1_1 ports-mgmt 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 0.9.1_3Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: arrowd@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2024-10-25 19:27:06
Last Update: 2025-10-20 09:07:48
Commit Hash: b8b2479
License: LGPL3
WWW:
https://github.com/ximion/appstream-generator
Description:
AppStream is an effort to provide additional metadata and unique IDs for all software available in the package repository. This package contains the server-side of the AppStream infrastructure, a tool to generate metadata from FreeBSD packages.
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. /usr/local/share/licenses/appstream-generator-0.10.1_1/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/appstream-generator-0.10.1_1/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/appstream-generator-0.10.1_1/LGPL3
  4. bin/appstream-generator
  5. share/appstream/asgen-hints.json
  6. share/appstream/hicolor-theme-index.theme
  7. share/appstream/poudriere-hook-bulk.sh
  8. share/appstream/templates/debian/base.html
  9. share/appstream/templates/debian/main.html
  10. share/appstream/templates/debian/static/css/highlight.css
  11. share/appstream/templates/debian/static/css/style.css
  12. share/appstream/templates/debian/static/img
  13. share/appstream/templates/debian/static/js
  14. share/appstream/templates/default/base.html
  15. share/appstream/templates/default/issues_index.html
  16. share/appstream/templates/default/issues_page.html
  17. share/appstream/templates/default/main.html
  18. share/appstream/templates/default/metainfo_index.html
  19. share/appstream/templates/default/metainfo_page.html
  20. share/appstream/templates/default/section_page.html
  21. share/appstream/templates/default/sections_index.html
  22. share/appstream/templates/default/static/css/highlight.css
  23. share/appstream/templates/default/static/css/style.css
  24. share/appstream/templates/default/static/img/asgen.png
  25. share/appstream/templates/default/static/img/cpt-nogui.png
  26. share/appstream/templates/default/static/img/favicon.png
  27. share/appstream/templates/default/static/img/no-image.png
  28. share/appstream/templates/ubuntu
  29. @comment share/man/man1/appstream-generator.1.gz
  30. share/metainfo/org.freedesktop.appstream.generator.metainfo.xml
  31. @owner
  32. @group
  33. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • appstream-generator>0:ports-mgmt/appstream-generator
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/appstream-generator/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install ports-mgmt/appstream-generator
  • pkg install appstream-generator
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: appstream-generator
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1759931829 SHA256 (ximion-appstream-generator-v0.10.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 002c509c54daa39b3bc179afca84227c9675368264040d19e7847540b7d0ed48 SIZE (ximion-appstream-generator-v0.10.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 580502

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
appstream-generator
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest0.10.10.10.1_1--0.10.1_1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest0.10.10.10.1_1--0.10.1_1---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly--------
FreeBSD:15:latest0.10.10.10.1_1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest0.10.10.10.1_1n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. nlohmann-json>=3 : devel/nlohmann-json
  2. inja>=3 : devel/inja
  3. catch2>0 : devel/catch2
  4. __generator.hpp : devel/stdgenerator
  5. docbook.xsl : textproc/docbook-xsl
  6. xsltproc : textproc/libxslt
  7. meson : devel/meson
  8. ninja : devel/ninja
  9. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Library dependencies:
  1. libappstream.so : devel/appstream
  2. libappstream-compose.so : devel/appstream-compose
  3. libCatch2.so : devel/catch2
  4. libcurl.so : ftp/curl
  5. liblmdb.so : databases/lmdb
  6. libicuuc.so : devel/icu
  7. libtbb.so : devel/onetbb
  8. libfyaml.so : textproc/libfyaml
  9. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  10. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  11. libxml2.so : textproc/libxml2
  12. libarchive.so.13 : archivers/libarchive
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for appstream-generator-0.10.1_1: MANPAGES=off: Build and/or install manual pages ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
ports-mgmt_appstream-generator
USES:
compiler:c++23-lang gnome libarchive meson pkgconfig
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/ximion/appstream-generator/tar.gz/v0.10.1?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 8

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
0.10.1_1
20 Oct 2025 09:07:48
commit hash: b8b2479a4bd4835fec503c15f487b040d9be524ccommit hash: b8b2479a4bd4835fec503c15f487b040d9be524ccommit hash: b8b2479a4bd4835fec503c15f487b040d9be524ccommit hash: b8b2479a4bd4835fec503c15f487b040d9be524c files touched by this commit
Dima Panov (fluffy) search for other commits by this committer
ports-mgmt/appstream-generator: unbreak build on 32bit ARCHes (+)

On a 32bit architectures onetbb installs pkgconfig file as tbb32.pc
Also fix variable size for numCPU to pass build on i386, bump PORTREVISION

Reported by:	arrowd, pkg-fallout
0.10.1
09 Oct 2025 10:48:47
commit hash: 90e30f5985e04649457eb7c6df78a480a9b5de1dcommit hash: 90e30f5985e04649457eb7c6df78a480a9b5de1dcommit hash: 90e30f5985e04649457eb7c6df78a480a9b5de1dcommit hash: 90e30f5985e04649457eb7c6df78a480a9b5de1d files touched by this commit
Dima Panov (fluffy) search for other commits by this committer
ports-mgmt/appstream-generator: add missed dependency on devel/icu (+)

Reported by:	arrowd, pkg-fallout
0.10.1
08 Oct 2025 14:08:48
commit hash: a8dd624733b5f5bb85662c3327df6c90e8a27960commit hash: a8dd624733b5f5bb85662c3327df6c90e8a27960commit hash: a8dd624733b5f5bb85662c3327df6c90e8a27960commit hash: a8dd624733b5f5bb85662c3327df6c90e8a27960 files touched by this commit
Dima Panov (fluffy) search for other commits by this committer
ports-mgmt/appstream-generator: update to 0.10.1 release (+)

Project switched from using the D programming language to C++23.

Release notes:	https://github.com/ximion/appstream-generator/blob/master/NEWS
0.9.1_3
25 Sep 2025 12:37:29
commit hash: eea207fe5bbc8a5454c8b42f0dc4abfcc2e7d195commit hash: eea207fe5bbc8a5454c8b42f0dc4abfcc2e7d195commit hash: eea207fe5bbc8a5454c8b42f0dc4abfcc2e7d195commit hash: eea207fe5bbc8a5454c8b42f0dc4abfcc2e7d195 files touched by this commit
Gleb Popov (arrowd) search for other commits by this committer
ports-mgmt/appstream-generator: Mark BROKEN for now

Reported by:	pkg-fallout
0.9.1_3
16 Jul 2025 12:55:29
commit hash: 77854184316677aaeb96fe7d4d8146839c84d75ecommit hash: 77854184316677aaeb96fe7d4d8146839c84d75ecommit hash: 77854184316677aaeb96fe7d4d8146839c84d75ecommit hash: 77854184316677aaeb96fe7d4d8146839c84d75e files touched by this commit
Gleb Popov (arrowd) search for other commits by this committer
ports-mgmt/appstream-generator: Pull in the single package processing support
0.9.1_2
03 Jul 2025 07:34:28
commit hash: 3e4ce725883314302ad3f2f228daf42ae0d550aacommit hash: 3e4ce725883314302ad3f2f228daf42ae0d550aacommit hash: 3e4ce725883314302ad3f2f228daf42ae0d550aacommit hash: 3e4ce725883314302ad3f2f228daf42ae0d550aa files touched by this commit
Gleb Popov (arrowd) search for other commits by this committer
D ports: Bump PORTREVISION after the compiler and build system updates

Pull Request:	https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/414
0.9.1_1
13 Dec 2024 08:22:31
commit hash: ce406d4dc7b47433e444950944872105c219c01dcommit hash: ce406d4dc7b47433e444950944872105c219c01dcommit hash: ce406d4dc7b47433e444950944872105c219c01dcommit hash: ce406d4dc7b47433e444950944872105c219c01d files touched by this commit
Dima Panov (fluffy) search for other commits by this committer
ports-mgmt/appstream-generator: mark as PIE_UNSAFE (+)

Reported by:	bulk -t

Approved by:	portmgr (blanket)

Sponsored by:	Future Crew, LLC
0.9.1_1
25 Oct 2024 19:24:43
commit hash: 156ebeeb9c32c636068c325e57be748be04143fecommit hash: 156ebeeb9c32c636068c325e57be748be04143fecommit hash: 156ebeeb9c32c636068c325e57be748be04143fecommit hash: 156ebeeb9c32c636068c325e57be748be04143fe files touched by this commit
Gleb Popov (arrowd) search for other commits by this committer
ports-mgmt/appstream-generator: Tool to generate AppStream metadata from a
package repository

Sponsored by:	Future Crew, LLC

Number of commits found: 8