 | KPortsA frontend to Ports and PkgSrc, packaging systems most commonly used on the free *BSDs. |
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A frontend to Ports and PkgSrc, packaging systems most commonly used on the free *BSDs. KPorts is a frontend to Ports and PkgSrc, packaging systems most commonly used on the free *BSDs, but also available for GNU/Linux, Solaris, Darwin(MacOSX), IRIX, AIX + Interix(MS Unix Services for Windows).KPorts will be an all-purpose Package managing tool, allowing to remove and to install, upgrade, downgrade or reinstall ports (upwards/backwards recursively), from the local ports directory, package sites or from local packages (support for installing and registering local source tarballs is also planned).Updating the ports directory/ports database is also planned for the final release.KPorts is targeted at all BSD end-users, being both easy-to-use, with discriptive Installation Wizards, but providing many options and complete command output for more experienced users.Installation:extract tarball and run the following commands in the extracted tarball's root:# WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6="1" gmake -f Makefile.cvs# ./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` LDFLAGS=-pthread# gmake# gmake install (as root) What's New in This Release: FEATURES: · Experimental support for updating the ports-tree BUGFIXES: · Bogus-Ports appearing in the tree (r96) · Ports added twice (r96) · Vulnerability Database now works correctly, it is updated on each start · Bug fixed where Installed packages where not read on start · fixed support for changing the icon-theme · little freeze on startup fixed, startup is now much faster · search results are now clickable again (don't know if this actually was broken in 0.8.1 or only inbetween) TRANSLATIONS: · Portuguese Translation added (thanks to Marcio!) MISC: · h2 is now co-maintainer · KPorts now shares the FTPINDEX with bsdadminscripts and uses uma to update it · KPorts attains a lock from uma on startup, so as not to conflict with other tools KNOWN ISSUES: · higher memory usage after updating and re-reading the ports tree a patched version of portsnap is packed, because nobody is looking into: · http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/136325
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