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Port details on branch 2023Q2
cagebreak Wayland tiling compositor inspired by ratpoison
2.2.0 x11-wm 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 2.2.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: jbeich@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2023-04-04 12:21:11
Last Update: 2023-06-01 00:58:33
Commit Hash: 82ae1a1
Also Listed In: wayland
License: MIT
WWW:
https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak
Description:
This is Cagebreak, a Wayland tiling compositor. The goal of this project is to provide a successor to ratpoison for Wayland users. However, this is no reimplementation of ratpoison. Should you like to know if a feature will be implemented, open an issue or get in touch with the development team.
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. bin/cagebreak
  2. etc/xdg/cagebreak/config
  3. man/man1/cagebreak.1.gz
  4. man/man5/cagebreak-config.5.gz
  5. man/man7/cagebreak-socket.7.gz
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/cagebreak-2.2.0/catalog.mk
  7. /usr/local/share/licenses/cagebreak-2.2.0/LICENSE
  8. /usr/local/share/licenses/cagebreak-2.2.0/MIT
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • cagebreak>0:x11-wm/cagebreak
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/cagebreak/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11-wm/cagebreak
  • pkg install cagebreak
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: cagebreak
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1685561923 SHA256 (project-repo-cagebreak-2.2.0_GH0.tar.gz) = e1726501afeec749be05dabddb8bc367165dc038752bd28f308a3f04c33a82c1 SIZE (project-repo-cagebreak-2.2.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 208935
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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. evdev-proto>0 : devel/evdev-proto
  2. wayland-protocols>=1.14 : graphics/wayland-protocols
  3. wlroots>=0.16.0<0.17.0 : x11-toolkits/wlroots
  4. scdoc : textproc/scdoc
  5. meson : devel/meson
  6. ninja : devel/ninja
  7. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Library dependencies:
  1. libevdev.so : devel/libevdev
  2. libudev.so : devel/libudev-devd
  3. libwayland-server.so : graphics/wayland
  4. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  5. libwlroots.so : x11-toolkits/wlroots
  6. libinput.so : x11/libinput
  7. libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
  8. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  9. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  10. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  11. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for cagebreak-2.2.0: MANPAGES=on: Build and/or install manual pages X11=on: X11 (graphics) support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
x11-wm_cagebreak
USES:
compiler:c11 gnome meson pkgconfig
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/project-repo/cagebreak/tar.gz/2.2.0?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 4

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
2.2.0
01 Jun 2023 00:58:33
commit hash: 82ae1a15facee31c168e0f65e04cee2b72bf1c1fcommit hash: 82ae1a15facee31c168e0f65e04cee2b72bf1c1fcommit hash: 82ae1a15facee31c168e0f65e04cee2b72bf1c1fcommit hash: 82ae1a15facee31c168e0f65e04cee2b72bf1c1f files touched by this commit		 Jan Beich (jbeich) search for other commits by this committer 
x11-wm/cagebreak: update to 2.2.0

Changes:	https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak/releases/tag/2.2.0
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)

(cherry picked from commit 6538cacdf9a8e21b6981a69dbcad7323d8d785e9)
2.1.2
25 Apr 2023 00:48:10
commit hash: c2a70facb18bbe0bc92b19761c837c22bf8705c3commit hash: c2a70facb18bbe0bc92b19761c837c22bf8705c3commit hash: c2a70facb18bbe0bc92b19761c837c22bf8705c3commit hash: c2a70facb18bbe0bc92b19761c837c22bf8705c3 files touched by this commit		 Jan Beich (jbeich) search for other commits by this committer 
x11-wm/cagebreak: update to 2.1.2

Changes:	https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak/releases/tag/2.1.2
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)

(cherry picked from commit 5e81531cd7638c987854a3de4727eccac2e5e3c5)
2.1.1
18 Apr 2023 00:47:21
commit hash: b75dfb9b89f4126697f28572a9eaa6991f151ba3commit hash: b75dfb9b89f4126697f28572a9eaa6991f151ba3commit hash: b75dfb9b89f4126697f28572a9eaa6991f151ba3commit hash: b75dfb9b89f4126697f28572a9eaa6991f151ba3 files touched by this commit		 Jan Beich (jbeich) search for other commits by this committer 
x11-wm/cagebreak: update to 2.1.1

Changes:	https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak/releases/tag/2.1.1
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)

(cherry picked from commit e6746b382d3df58189f610667656fed29351617e)
2.1.0
04 Apr 2023 12:20:25
commit hash: 5b941aad46964a8eb8e769c58009fa72d1fdd17ccommit hash: 5b941aad46964a8eb8e769c58009fa72d1fdd17ccommit hash: 5b941aad46964a8eb8e769c58009fa72d1fdd17ccommit hash: 5b941aad46964a8eb8e769c58009fa72d1fdd17c files touched by this commit		 Jan Beich (jbeich) search for other commits by this committer 
x11-wm/cagebreak: update to 2.1.0

Changes:	https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak/releases/tag/2.1.0
Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)

(cherry picked from commit b291f593708d792badeb45fa7e5870fcc2d884fd)

Number of commits found: 4
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