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Today, many ports are maintained by special task forces or sub-projects, each with a dedicated mailing list (e.g. kde@FreeBSD.org, java@FreeBSD.org, etc.), while unmaintained ports are assigned to the generic group ports@FreeBSD.org. In general, anyone may become a port maintainer by contributing their favorite software to the collection.
Portsnap is a system written by Colin Percival for secure distribution of compressed, digitally signed snapshots of the FreeBSD ports tree. The distribution follows the client–server model and uses the transport protocol HTTP (pipelined HTTP). From FreeBSD 6 through 13 (as well as 5.5), portsnap was a part of the base system.
OpenPorts.se, originally announced as ports.openbsd.nu in 2006, [9] was a custom-written web-site that does its own parsing of the ports tree structure and the updates, and has the functionality of tracking changes of a given port, having a shortcoming of not supporting some of the more complicated Makefile logic, and thus missing some 15% of ...
Portage during system update. The Portage system offers the use of "USE flags", which allows users to indicate which software features they would like to include (and exclude) while building packages. For example, there is a USE flag to include DVD support, where available, in packages compiled with the flag enabled.
FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). FreeBSD currently has more than 200 active developers and thousands of contributors. Other notable derivatives include DragonFly BSD, which was forked from FreeBSD 4.8, and Apple Inc.'s macOS, with its Darwin base including a ...
OpenBSD is a security-focused, free software, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created OpenBSD in 1995 by forking NetBSD 1.0. [ 4 ] The OpenBSD project emphasizes portability , standardization , correctness , proactive security , and integrated cryptography .
There are three main usage modes of port that assist in updating installed software: sync updates the local ports tree. It does not upgrade any installed packages, but instead retrieves information about new and updated software. It is similar in function to brew update or apt update. [10]
5.2: November 2006. First-time integration to the FreeBSD Ports system at version 5.2 in December 2006, [12] to the OpenBSD ports tree at version 5.7 in March 2007. [13] 5.12: August 2007. URL rewriting support. 6.0: October 2007. IPv6 support. 6.6: April 2008. XSLT support. 6.10: October 2008. Prevent cross-site request forgery added. 7.0 ...