PORTGEN(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual PORTGEN(1)
NAME
portgen - port modules on the fly
SYNOPSIS
portgen [-m makeopt] type module-name
DESCRIPTION
The portgen utility creates ports for the given module-name from type
module framework. The module is downloaded, analyzed and translated into
a port. Any missing dependencies are handled recursively. New ports
will land under ${PORTSDIR}/mystuff. The PORTSDIR value will be taken
from current user environment, and defaults to /usr/ports.
The options are as follows:
-m makeopt
Pass makeopt to make(1) invocations while resolving missing
dependencies, mostly useful with `FETCH_PACKAGES=' to avoid
building everything from scratch.
The portgen utility currently supports the following type values:
p5 for Perl modules on CPAN.
ruby for Ruby gems.
go for Go modules.
A go module may be used with an @version suffix to specify a tag or
branch to port. The default suffix is @latest, which is interpreted as
the latest release.
The following packages must be installed prior to the invocation of
portgen:
sqlports
p5-DBI
p5-DBD-SQLite
EXIT STATUS
The portgen utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
The following command will download the latest version of
Config::AutoConf from CPAN, parse it and create a port for it:
portgen p5 Config::AutoConf
SEE ALSO
port-modules(5), ports(7)
HISTORY
The portgen utility first appeared in OpenBSD 5.9 as a result of Google
Summer of Code 2015.
AUTHORS
Giannis Tsaraias <
[email protected]>
CAVEATS
Not every module could be converted to a port.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 August 13, 2022 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8