Ports Search

Portscout is a tool which looks for new versions of software in the FreeBSD ports tree, and potentially other software repositories. It is also possible to provide an arbitrary list of software in a simple XML format. Various factors make this task a bit more difficult than it might initially seem. In particular, the array of weird and wonderful versioning schemes software vendors manage to come up with. Portscout spawns several child processes and does its version checking in parallel, while attempting to best-guess strange-looking version numbers, navigate around unhelpful sites and web servers, and contend with the CPU-heavy rapidly-expanding FreeBSD ports system. In addition to all this, it is possible to generate nice HTML reports and send reminder mails to interested parties.

pkg_search queries the appropriate database file of FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD or NetBSD for a given package name.

A tool to generate human-readable trees of dependencies of a FreeBSD port.

SLADE3 is a modern editor for Doom-engine based games and source ports. It has the ability to view, modify, and write many different game-specific formats, and even convert between some of them, or from/to other generic formats such as PNG. SLADE3 can be considered a successor to both SLumpEd and SLADE. Some of its features: - Basic archive/resource editing (create/open/save, import/export) - Simple tabbed interface with copy/paste support - Many supported game formats (ZIP/PK3, Quake PAK/WAD2, etc.)

A command-line script to check the availability of a ports distfiles. This script can take advantage of perl threads if available.

Here is a meta-port for a set of tools that will help port maintainers to test and submit changes to the FreeBSD Ports Collection.

The SciPlot Widget is a widget capable of plotting cartesian or polar graphs, including logarithmic axes in cartesian plots. The widget is subclassed directly from the Core widget class, which means that it does not depend upon any other widget set. It may be freely used with Athena, Motif, or the Open Look/Xview widget sets. Features provided in the widget include automatic scaling, legend drawing, axis labeling, PostScript output, multiple plotted lines, color support, user font specification, dashed lines, symbols drawn at points, logarithmic scales on one or both axes in cartesian plots, and degrees or radians as angles in polar plots.

Find the fastest mirror for every mirror list in bsd.sites.mk. Output is suitable for inclusion into make.conf.

The tits command is a server process which provides telnet(1) access to one or more tty ports as specified in config-file (or /etc/tits.conf if no configuration file is specified on the command line). Any number of telnet(1) clients may connect to a single tits port. Each client will see exactly the same output as well as being able to send keystrokes simultaneously.