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Port details
boomer Screen zoom and highlight program for X11
0.0.1 x11 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 0.0.1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: danfe@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2024-06-25 06:48:05
Last Update: 2025-01-29 07:47:20
Commit Hash: 5fb9bd4
License: MIT
WWW:
https://github.com/tsoding/boomer
Description:
Boomer is a screen zoomer for X11, written using OpenGL shaders for fast screen grab and drag, enlighten the portion of the screen with a variable radius (flashlight effect), etc.
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/boomer
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/boomer-0.0.1/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/boomer-0.0.1/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/boomer-0.0.1/MIT
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • boomer>0:x11/boomer
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/x11/boomer/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11/boomer
  • pkg install boomer
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: boomer
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1707424554 SHA256 (tsoding-boomer-0.0.1-dfd4e1f_GH0.tar.gz) = 1c061cc3d55513ace5b0848f883039263ffb65ea502d2903dd032ce44ac976c3 SIZE (tsoding-boomer-0.0.1-dfd4e1f_GH0.tar.gz) = 7074555

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SHA256 (nim-lang-x11-1.2_GH0.tar.gz) = 40a04906a522faa1746babcc72a536f26cdeac646475ac8a297945bd7813fdcf SIZE (nim-lang-x11-1.2_GH0.tar.gz) = 96522 SHA256 (nim-lang-opengl-1.2.9_GH0.tar.gz) = bb7a8a91da12f33b3b12564956e031cbc89633d4576d456412a0f26728eb335e SIZE (nim-lang-opengl-1.2.9_GH0.tar.gz) = 102551

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
boomer
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest0.0.10.0.1-0.0.10.0.1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly0.0.10.0.1-0.0.10.0.1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest0.0.10.0.1-0.0.10.0.1---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly0.0.10.0.1-0.0.10.0.1---
FreeBSD:15:latest0.0.10.0.1n/a0.0.1n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly0.0.10.0.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest0.0.10.0.1n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. nimble : devel/nimble
Runtime dependencies:
  1. libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
  2. libX11.so : x11/libX11
  3. libXrandr.so : x11/libXrandr
There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
x11_boomer
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/tsoding/boomer/tar.gz/dfd4e1f?dummy=/
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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
0.0.1
29 Jan 2025 07:47:20
commit hash: 5fb9bd4bca5201a1be8f06154a7f8312ecf39411commit hash: 5fb9bd4bca5201a1be8f06154a7f8312ecf39411commit hash: 5fb9bd4bca5201a1be8f06154a7f8312ecf39411commit hash: 5fb9bd4bca5201a1be8f06154a7f8312ecf39411 files touched by this commit		 Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/boomer: attempt to unbreak the port in the build-as-user mode

Build artifacts are created under ~/.cache/nim/$projectname(_r|_d)
by default and this naturally fails because nobody's home directory
is /nonexistent.  Use ${WRKDIR}/.nimcache instead which definitely
exists and is writable.

Nagged by:	pkg-fallout
0.0.1
25 Jun 2024 06:45:46
commit hash: 7bd5500819bfa2eec4a7d65ac6cb0987b8998559commit hash: 7bd5500819bfa2eec4a7d65ac6cb0987b8998559commit hash: 7bd5500819bfa2eec4a7d65ac6cb0987b8998559commit hash: 7bd5500819bfa2eec4a7d65ac6cb0987b8998559 files touched by this commit		 Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/boomer: new port had been added (+)

Boomer is a screen zoomer for X11, written using OpenGL shaders
for fast screen grab and drag, enlighten a portion of the screen
with a variable radius (flashlight effect), etc.

Written in Nim language, it compiles into small executable that
only needs OpenGL and X11 libraries at run-time.

WWW: https://github.com/tsoding/boomer

Number of commits found: 2
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