---
name: "porgrc"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "porg"
version: "2:0.10-1.2"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/porgrc"
---

# porgrc(5)

configuration file for porg

## NAME

porgrc - configuration file for porg

## SYNOPSIS

**/etc/porgrc**

## DESCRIPTION

**porgrc** is the system-wide configuration file for **[porg(8)](/porg/8.md)**, the source code package organizer.

## SYNTAX

The file consists of comments and key-value pairs. Comments are on separate lines that start with a **#** symbol. The key-value pairs are on the form:

**key=value**

where **key** contains no whitespace and no equal signs, and **value** will be all of the text after the equal sign until (but not including) the ending newline.

The name of **key** is case insensitive (e.g. **INCLUDE**, **include**  and **INcludE** are equivalent).

## OPTIONS

The following options can be set. The equivalent command line options (if any), are listed in brackets:

- **logdir** \[-L\|--logdir\]

  Base porg logs directory. Default is '/var/lib/porg'. Environment variables like $HOME are expanded at runtime.

- **include** \[-I\|--include\]

  Colon-separated list of paths to scan when logging the installation of a package. Default is '/'.\
   Shell wildcards are allowed in the paths. See *PATH MATCHING* below for more details.

- **exclude** \[-E\|--exclude\]

  Colon-separated list of paths to skip when logging the installation of a package. Default is '/tmp:/dev:/proc:/sys:/run'.\
   Shell wildcards are allowed in the paths. See *PATH MATCHING* below for more details.

- **remove\_skip** \[-e\|--skip\]

  Colon-separated list of paths to skip when removing a package. Default is '' (all logged files are removed).\
   Shell wildcards are allowed in the paths. See *PATH MATCHING* below for more details.

## PATH MATCHING

Variables **include**, **exclude** and **remove\_skip** accept a  colon-separated list of paths, each of which may contain shell-like wildcards (\*, ? and \[..\]). Files are matched against each of those paths, following the standard shell-like expansion, but with the following exception: If a path in the list does not contain any wildcard, and it is a directory, it matches any file within that directory.

## FILES

*/etc/porgrc* - active configuration file\
 */usr/share/porg/porgrc* - sample configuration file

## AUTHOR

Written by David Ricart (http://porg.sourceforge.net)

## SEE ALSO

[porg(8)](/porg/8.md), [porgball(8)](/porgball/8.md)