---
name: "portbump"
section: "1"
platform: "openbsd"
package: "man"
version: "8.0-current-20261101"
release: "OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01)"
platforms: ["openbsd"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/portbump"
---

# portbump(1)

tweaks port revisions and library versions

## NAME

**portbump** – tweaks port revisions and library versions

## SYNOPSIS

**portbump** \[**-lMmnrv**\] \[**-W** *wlib*\] \[**-w** *wlib*\] \[*portref* *...*\]

**portbump** **-o** *file* \[**-lMmnrv**\] \[**-W** *addlib*\] \[**-w** *rmlib*\] \[*portref* *...*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**portbump** is used to increase ('bump') REVISION and SHARED\_LIBS values in OpenBSD ports. It also can remove REVISION marks and add, update or remove WANTLIB items.

*portref* has the same syntax as FULLPKGPATH port variable, see [bsd.port.mk(5)](/bsd.port.mk/5.md). Actually, you can feed a list of pkgpaths as parameters; flavor information will be ignored. **portbump** doesn't care about actual subdirectory portion of *portref*, so you can freely pass *.*, *../foo* or anything else like this.

If subpackage is not specified in port reference, then all subpackages of a port will be processed. If no port references are given, the port in current directory will be processed.

Default mode of operation is increasing REVISION mark values ( **-r**). Operations on REVISION marks and on SHARED\_LIBS could be combined by explicit specifying corresponding flags, see below.

The following options are available:

- **-d**

  Delete all REVISION marks in *Makefile*. Mutually exclusive with **-r**.

- **-l**

  Recreate all WANTLIB items based on output of ‘make port-lib-depends-check’. If used twice or more, the ‘make lib-depends-check’ will be used instead. The **-l** mode is incompatible with **-W** and **-w**.

- **-M**

  Increment by one major component of all SHARED\_LIBS, resetting minor one to zero if needed. Mutually exclusive with **-m**.

- **-m**

  Increment by one minor component of all SHARED\_LIBS. Mutually exclusive with **-M**.

- **-n**

  Do not replace *Makefile* but save modified version in the *Makefile.bump* instead.

- **-o** *file*

  Send modified Makefile contents to a given file instead of creating *Makefile.bump* in port's directory. This could be only used if not more than one port is specified; multiple subpackages of a single port could be specified, though.

- **-r**

  Increment REVISION values for all subpackages, or only for given ones. Mutually exclusive with **-d**.

- **-W** *wlib*

  - **-w** *wlib*

  Adds or updates (the **-W** flag) or removes (the **-w** flag) WANTLIB items in whole port, or in particular subpackages, if given. Both options could be specified multiple times, accumulating corresponding lists. The WANTLIB entries will be fully re-generated based on previous contents. Those modes are incompatible with **-l**.

- **-v**

  Enable printing of diagnostic messages to standard error output.

## HISTORY

**portbump** first appeared in OpenBSD 5.6.