Portscout is a tool which looks for new versions of software in the
FreeBSD ports tree, and potentially other software repositories. It
is also possible to provide an arbitrary list of software in a simple
XML format.
Various factors make this task a bit more difficult than it might
initially seem. In particular, the array of weird and wonderful
versioning schemes software vendors manage to come up with.
Portscout spawns several child processes and does its version checking
in parallel, while attempting to best-guess strange-looking version
numbers, navigate around unhelpful sites and web servers, and contend
with the CPU-heavy rapidly-expanding FreeBSD ports system.
In addition to all this, it is possible to generate nice HTML reports
and send reminder mails to interested parties.
===> The following configuration options are available for portscout-0.8.1.6_3:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
HTTPS=on: HTTPS protocol support
====> Database Backends: you have to choose at least one of them
SQLITE=off: SQLite database support
PGSQL=on: PostgreSQL database support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
ports-mgmt/portscout: Import upstream feature commit
Import an upstream feature commit that enables bookmarking of ports and
automatically filters them to show only outdated ports.
PR: 271203
Approved by: maintainer timeout (bofh, 20 days)
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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ports-mgmt: remove 'Created by' lines
A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:
* "Waitman Gobble" <uzimac@da3m0n8t3r.com>
* Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>
* Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
* Alex Stangl <alex@stangl.us>
* Anders F Bjorklund <afb@users.sourceforge.net>
* Benjamin Lutz
* Brendan Molloy <brendan+freebsd@bbqsrc.net>
* Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
* Edwin Groothuis (edwin@mavetju.org)
* Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>
* Gabriel Linder <linder.gabriel@gmail.com>
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Bump PORTREVISION for ports depending on the canonical version of GCC
as defined in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has moved from GCC 8.3
to GCC 9.1 under most circumstances now after revision 507371.
This includes ports
- with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- with USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
- with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x, c++11-lang,
c++11-lib, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib
plus, everything INDEX-11 shows with a dependency on lang/gcc9 now.
PR: 238330
Bump PORTREVISION for ports depending on the canonical version of GCC
defined via Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has moved from GCC 7.4 t
GCC 8.2 under most circumstances.
This includes ports
- with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
- with USES=fortran,
- using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
- with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x, c++11-lang,
c++11-lib, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib
plus, as a double check, everything INDEX-11 showed depending on lang/gcc7.
PR: 231590
ports-mgmt/portscout: Loop through all PyPI files
While processing Issue 206746 [1] for a security update to
security/py-rsa (For versions < 3.3), it was noticed that Portscout
had not identified the the newer version, released on 2016-01-13.
Investigation revealed that the PyPI SiteHandler in Portscout only
processed the first url/filename returned by PyPI, which in many cases
is not a tar.gz, the default EXTRACT_SUFFIX for source distribution
(sdist) files:
[py-rsa] VersionCheck()
[py-rsa] Checking site: https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/rsa/
Does site handler exist ... Yes
(Portscout::SiteHandler::PyPI) GET https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rsa/json
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ports-mgmt/portscout: Fix broken !SiteHandler logic
Fix a logic bug introduced in r401037, which caused ports without a
SiteHandler (GitHub, SourceForge, PyPI) not to be processed through the
fallback FTP or HTTP(S) cases.
I didn't pick this up in testing because only my ports were tested, most
of which use PyPI/GitHub, using the `restrict maintainer` setting in
portscout.conf.
[1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/401037
Pointyhat: koobs
Reported by: kwm (for mate, libdrm)
MFH: 2016Q1
ports-mgmt/portscout: Make GitHub ports work, fix bugs
A number of people reported no updates being detected for ports using
USE_GITHUB=yes, even after originally adding the GitHub site handler in
r401037 [1]. Investigation revealed that the FindNewestFile subroutine
and the vercompare() method assumed (or are designed so) that responses
returned from site handlers will be in a normalised version format. For
site handlers that return 'versions', this works well. For the github
handler, in the fallback use of the API for fetching repository tags, it
does not.
Additionally it turns out, portscout currently only uses/stores a
normalized version ('ver') in its database, in its general design
attempt to be a generic version comparison tool
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ports-mgmt/portscout: Add GitHub and PyPI site handlers & MORE!
Over the past several months portscout.freebsd.org appears to have been
more frequently NOT finding updates, particularly for ports that use
CHEESESHOP (PyPI) as their MASTER_SITES.
Portscout has also never worked for ports using GitHub for distribution
files due to the following:
a) Portscout, prior to 'guessing', requests a randomly named file
from the Site and expects a 4xx (404) in response. If it doesn't
receive a 4xx response, it increments a 'lie counter' and does not
check the site again in the next run.
b) The GitHUB handlers (SUBDIR/MASTER_SITES) in bsd.sites.mk
construct a URL that ends in a a dummy query paramater (for the
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Change the way Perl modules are installed, update the default Perl to 5.18.
Before, we had:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18
site_perl/perl_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18/mach
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/5.18/man/man3
Now we have:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl
site_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3
Modules without any .so will be installed at the same place regardless of the
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Remove indefinite articles and trailing periods from COMMENT, plus
minor COMMENT typos and surrounding whitespace fixes. A few Makefiles
where not included as they contain Latin-1 characters that break
the Phabricator workflow. Categories P-S.
CR: D422
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
Bump PORTREVISION on all ports with USE_SQLITE=yes or USE_SQLITE=3 that
have not been bumped yet after the latest libsqlite3.so library version
change.
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Upgrade to version 0.8.
This represents a milestone release over the previous version, and
includes significant improvements to the version detection and
comparison algorithms, support for the new SourceForge mirror layout
(and an easy way to add future workarounds), theoretical support for
NetBSD's pkgsrc and OpenBSD ports, support for providing a list of
software in an XML file in place of ports, and support for SQLite.
Of course, there are also many optimisations and general bug fixes.
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
Welcome bsd.perl.mk. Add support for constructs such as USE_PERL5=5.8.0+.
Drop support for antique perl.
Work done by: gabor
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
Hat: portmgr
