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
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.