Things you didn’t know FreshPorts can do

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I’m trying to think of a list of things that FreshPorts can do which might be useful.

I can think of these:

  • provides example dependency line. e.g. p5-XML-RSS>0:textproc/p5-XML-RSS
  • list of dependencies for a port
  • list of ports depending upon this port
  • Default configuration options
  • what packages install a given file (e.g. bin/unzip)
  • what ports does this person maintain?
  • which Makefiles contain a reference to bunzip?
  • search results can be plain-text consisting of a list of foo/bar ports
  • The Maximum Effort checkbox on the search page does nothing.
  • Committers can be notified of sanity test failures after the commit
  • Find a commit, any commit, based on SVN revision number, e.g. : https://www.freshports.org/commit.php?revision=352332

Any more ideas?

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2 thoughts on “Things you didn’t know FreshPorts can do”

  2. Dan Langille

    > Show the message (if one exists) for a package. Ideally provide an in-page anchor to the message

    e.g. I found this one:

    $ pkg query %M tarsnap
Always:
================================================================================

If you have never used tarsnap before, you will need to create an account
with the tarsnap service and deposit money into the account before you
can start using tarsnap; see
  https://www.tarsnap.com/gettingstarted.html
for details.

Once you have a tarsnap account you will need to create a key file using
the tarsnap-keygen utility before you start storing archives; this key
file MUST BE KEPT IN A SAFE LOCATION since you will not be able to read
your backups without it.

================================================================================

    The enhancement requests are good. Please add them to the queue at https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/issues so that the next time I’m working on the website, I will pick that up.

    Thank you.

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