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Port details
nitro Minimal init implementation and process supervisor
0.3 sysutilsnew! 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 Package not present on quarterly.This port was created during this quarter. It will be in the next quarterly branch but not the current one.
Maintainer: jsmith@resonatingmedia.com search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-08-29 12:15:07
Last Update: 2025-09-01 22:22:36
Commit Hash: 5e97ec4
License: ISCL
WWW:
https://git.vuxu.org/nitro/about/
Description:
Nitro is a tiny process supervisor that also can be used as PID 1 on Unix-like systems. It can run as an unprivileged supervision daemon on POSIX systems. Nitro is configured by a directory of scripts, defaulting to /etc/nitro or the first command line argument.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/nitro-0.3/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/nitro-0.3/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/nitro-0.3/ISCL
  4. bin/nitro
  5. bin/nitroctl
  6. share/man/man8/nitro.8.gz
  7. share/man/man1/nitroctl.1.gz
  8. @owner
  9. @group
  10. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • nitro>0:sysutils/nitro
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/nitro/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install sysutils/nitro
  • pkg install nitro
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: nitro
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1756646642 SHA256 (nitro-0.3.tar.gz) = 5672190ad8527b96875e75886dc8785373020e3ed53511c1758c8c7debd6999a SIZE (nitro-0.3.tar.gz) = 19589

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
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This port has no dependencies.
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
sysutils_nitro
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://git.vuxu.org/nitro/snapshot/
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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)
CommitCreditsLog message
0.3
01 Sep 2025 22:22:36
commit hash: 5e97ec42fa7074f506ef40b8882f8af6c742b5ebcommit hash: 5e97ec42fa7074f506ef40b8882f8af6c742b5ebcommit hash: 5e97ec42fa7074f506ef40b8882f8af6c742b5ebcommit hash: 5e97ec42fa7074f506ef40b8882f8af6c742b5eb files touched by this commit
Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Jesse Smith
sysutils/nitro: update to 0.3

Changelog: https://git.vuxu.org/nitro/tree/NEWS.md?h=v0.3

PR:		289206
Reported by:	Jesse Smith <jsmith@resonatingmedia.com> (maintainer)
0.2
29 Aug 2025 12:12:38
commit hash: 990be6e1f227cd4450cb7eb4fe93ffd92457823bcommit hash: 990be6e1f227cd4450cb7eb4fe93ffd92457823bcommit hash: 990be6e1f227cd4450cb7eb4fe93ffd92457823bcommit hash: 990be6e1f227cd4450cb7eb4fe93ffd92457823b files touched by this commit
Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) search for other commits by this committer
sysutils/nitro: add new ports, it's a Minimal process supervisor.

PR:		289107

Number of commits found: 2