- This is a routine bug fix release.
- New features: can now process the output from portsnap as part of
maintaining a local INDEX file. See
http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/portindex/index.xhtml for more
information.
PR: ports/122546
Submitted by: maintainer
better, it works better in opera, it provides a slightly better usability and
it's more FreeBSDish
- fetch all DISTFILES from my server for simplicity
- bump PORTREVISION for plist changes
Prompted by: miwi@'s tindy :-)
Implement a "visual" mode, where the user is given the complete list of leaf
packages inside his editor. He can then remove packages by removing the lines in
the file, save and exit. The now missing packages will then be removed.
PR: 121910
Submitted by: Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com>
* Use the actual Makefile when checking for pre-defined sites. This allows
us to catch things that rely on port variables. [1]
* USE_GETOPT_LONG is now obsolete, and should not be suggested. [2]
* Check for cases where X_DEPENDS = ${Y_DEPENDS} which can result in adding
unwanted dependencies.
PR: 121664 [1]
Suggested by: pav [2]
==================
The previous code tried to handle moved ports in much the same way
as it handled replacing a port with the -o option, but this would
sometimes create problems if we are deep in a dependency graph.
So rather than re-implement only a portion of the -o code, use the
whole thing instead.
We accomplish this by either exec'ing ourselves with the proper -o
options if we are in the dependency tree, or by asking the user to
restart with the proper -o options if they specified the moved port
on the command line. The latter is necessary to avoid having to
duplicate all the "initialize the parent process" code. This allows
me to simplify the code in a few places since -o is now the only
special case.
Bug Fixes
=========
1. Don't try to derive $portdir from $upg_port if using -o
2. Don't try to build a port with an +IGNOREME file if we are doing
the dependent ports in -r mode
Minor tweak: Add some whitespace after a warning message
your ports, I had:
pkg_delete *
which works for me because of a local bash completion, but doesn't
work for most users. So, correct that to be:
pkg_delete '*'
instead.
* Change a legacy part of code for gathering dependecies. It fixes
situation when some depends ports could be updated even when it
was up-to-date. As a result I added another check for -R option.
* Fix a wrong condition in portsclean. Now -L option works again.
* Change a semantic for -q option. Now it means 'quiet'. Don't
show a message when -N specified and there is an already installed
package. (Made for DesktopBSD).
Reported by: pav, Peter Hofer (DesktopBSD)
- Just ignore a package if there is no port directory exists. A correct way
for users is to place the ports in HOLD_PKGS in pkgtools,conf, but
they did not. So it makes my life a little easy.
* Many bugs fixed (thanks to all reporters).
* Semantic for -c and -C has changed. -c runs 'make config-conditional'
and -C 'make config' (forced config).
* All ports now runs under portupgrade/portinstall control.
a. If you specify a glob pattern in /var/db/pkg, there will always
be a prompt, even with the -u flag.
b. Try to discourage people from using -u, it doesn't seem to do what
people expect it to do.
c. You cannot upgrade sudo with PM_SU_CMD if sudo is your PM_SU_CMD
2. s/Dq/Qq/
3. Add .Ev tags to environment variables
- When in task list is a port with IGNORE, portupgrade fails. Just ignore it now.
Reported by: Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net>,
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
* many bug fixes
* now all dependencies run under portupgrade control
* run 'make config-conditional' and 'make config' with -c and -C options
PR: ports/116830, ports/115249
Reported by: clemens fischer <ino-news@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org>,
KOMATSU Shinichiro <koma2@lovepeers.org>,
and other
ports knobs and options by listing them together with their
status (either enabled or not). It uses portconf for knobs.
PR: ports/116127
Submitted by: Gabriel Linder <linder.gabriel at gmail.com>
in several cases totally rewritten. I am also glad to say that
all of the advertised features now work as advertised. :)
The most exciting new feature is the completely new dependency
updater. I finally took the time to write the line-oriented version
of update_contents() that I wanted to write in the first place, so
no more sed, and no more warnings sent to $PAGER. This version relies
entirely on exact matches to DEPORIGIN to do its work, so it's 100%
reliable.
So what else is new? A lot of micro-optimizations have been done to
eliminate duplicated work, avoid using external commands when not
necessary, etc. There are also some not-so-micro optimizations, which
means that this version is noticably faster.
Totally new features:
1. --check-depends, which as described above calls the new functions
to parse existing +CONTENTS files for dependency data, uses that data
to update +REQUIRED_BY, and updates the +CONTENTS files. These same
routines are also used for updating ports.
2. A "fetch only" feature (-F) that will go get distfiles for new
versions of installed ports by default, and can also be used to get
the files for all of your installed ports, or certain branches by
using the -aft options.
3. An option to hide the build and install process by saving it to a
log (-H). These logs are deleted on successful install, and saved if
the update process aborts.
4. We now keep track of all the ports that get updated or installed in
a given invocation, and print the list at the very end of the process.
5. There is now a little "map" to show you where you are in the
process of the form "parent >> child >> grandchild >> etc."
6. Support for running as an unprivileged user (via sudo) has been
added. See the man page for details on how to configure this.
Improved features:
1. When showing the pkg-message/+DISPLAY files at the end of the
process, all files are grouped together and spit out to $PAGER (or
just cat if -u). If there is an error, there is a pause first
(unless -u).
2. There is now much more sanity checking on user input so that we can
bail out early if there is a problem.
3. The error messages have been completely re-done to be more
informative, and many of them include helpful suggestions on how to
fix the problems.
4. In the expunge (-e) feature, if there is dependency data for the
port you want to delete we now offer you the chance to delete that
instead of just aborting. (Use at your own risk!)
5. The "save old shared libs" feature (-w) is now a lot more
efficient, only runs ldconfig when it has to, and uses
/etc/rc.d/ldconfig.
6. The /var/db/pkg/*/+IGNOREME file now has more functions associated
with it. See the man page for details.
7. When using the -L feature, there is a warning printed if the port
has been set to FORBIDDEN, DEPRECATED, BROKEN, or IGNORE.
8. If you have a real /usr/X11R6 directory (not a symlink) this is
added to the PATH. Otherwise it's assumed that LOCALBASE == X11BASE.
9. Backup packages of existing ports are now saved to
/usr/ports/packages/portmaster-backup, and left there if -b is used.
This way you can create backup packages of a port without disturbing
existing packages with the same version.
There are numerous other things that are not user-visible which have
been cleaned, polished, made more efficient, etc.
with system ones. portsclean -Li ask to remove them. No removes by
default, but we don't want an user remove system libraries just press 'y'
in portscleanup -Li.
PR: ports/116830
Reported by: clemens fischer <ino-news at spotteswoode.dnsalias.org>
package and lets you decide for each one if you want to keep it or delete it.
It also allows viewing the pacakge comment and description.
This program is essentially a clone of pkg_rmleaves except that it shows
the comment and description of packages and does not support GUI dialog(1)
implementations.
PR: ports/117782
Submitted by: Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net>
* Add support for FreeBSD 8.X.
* Fix a database query bug.
* Ensure the .env files are properly read and export when building the Makefile and database entries.
* Use the C locale when calculating build times.
* Do not die if a Build's log directory is missing when running tbcleanup.
This release comes with a rawenv change, so make sure you copy rawenv.dist to rawenv to get the latest variables.
PR: 118854
Submitted by: miwi
Approved by: itetcu (maintainer timeout)
- Remove support for FreeBSD older than 4.11 and 5.3.
- Remove conditional dependency on bzip2 which I can't really see how
could be activated automatically.
Reported by: "J. Martin Petersen" <jmp@alvorlig.dk> [1]
PR: ports/117845 [1]
With hat: maintainer / secteam
* Allow the @stopdaemon plist directive. [1]
* Fix a typo when checking for proper use of DOCSDIR. [2]
* USE_JAVA is okay to use after including bsd.port.pre.mk. [3]
* Properly check for extra items in the PATCH_SITES section. [4]
* Replace all instances of "IFF" with "If and only if" to be clearer for
non-English speaking, non-math geeks. [5]
PR: 116907 [3]
116698 [4]
116218 [5]
Reported by: rafan [1]
Submitted by: lwhsu [2]
many ports installed that it is difficult to know which sections are relevant.
It reads /usr/ports/UPDATING, attempting for each block to determine whether
the affected ports are installed. It omits blocks that do not apply.
It handles wildcards and other special cases, however it cannot handle
all variants of phrases used on the APPLIES: line.
In uncertain cases, it errs on the side of reporting.
PR: ports/117991
Submitted by: Alex Stangl <alex at stangl.us>
===========+
1. If an +IGNOREME file is present for a package that has a new
version, let the user know.
2. Use printf to display BROKEN/FORBIDDEN/IGNORE messages so that
multi-line messages with embedded newlines will display properly.
Typo Fix
========
Fix two typos in the "it's interactive" message
... on the same line
... in two consecutive words. A new personal record.
I did run through the rest of the script with aspell and didn't
notice anything else, but who knows?
===============
1. In delete_all_distfiles(), $distdir already contains a trailing slash
2. Only print the "no new versions" message for -L, not -l
Big bug fix
===========
1. cd back to the port directory before trying to run 'make install'
pointy_hat_supply++
Approved by: portmgr (marcus)
to bottom read through prompted by a user reporting bug #1 below.
Fortunately I only found that one additional instance of forgetting
to virtualize a value we derive from bsd.port.mk, but I did find and
fix a few more things as well.
Bug Fixes
=========
1. Virtualize an occurrence of $distdir instead of using $pd/distfiles
2. Make all variables in read_distinfos() local
3. When specifying multiple ports on the command line, the test for
PARENT_PID to start read_distinfos() would always fail, so start it
in the initial PARENT_PID block instead. This also implies pulling the
DI_FILES creation up into that same block.
Non-Functional Changes
======================
1. Adjust whitespace in the code, and the script output in a few places
2. Use a shell expansion instead of sed to trim multiple results
3. Remove one redundant error check
4. Replace the name find_contents_distfiles() with find_dl_distfiles()
since the info is not in +CONTENTS anymore
5. Add/update comments to the existing code
Small changes to actual behavior
================================
1. When dealing with unrecorded dependencies pipe the results to
'less -F'
2. Minor optimization: In read_distinfos(), check to see if we're
upgrading an existing port, and if so do that port first so we're
sure the right distfiles will be in DI_FILES even if the function
doesn't complete before the port is done building/installling
3. Add a message to -L to indicate when there are no new versions
4. Move the checks for run-depends after installation of the parent
port so that if a run-depends port has a build-depends on the parent,
it will work. This is a supported, but apparently not recommended
configuration. To make this work do the install with -DNO_DEPENDS so
that we can take charge of the run-depends installs.
- Update to the latest version. The only change is accepting 'yes' as valid
input where previously only a 'y' was accepted.
(Patch by Feargal Reilly <feargal@fbi.ie>)
===================
1. When I changed how the MOVED file was treated in version 1.19
I accidentally typed a literal /usr/ports/. Change that to the
variable for PORTSDIR as it should be. [1]
2. When using the --show-work feature and the port has no dependencies,
exit immediately instead of recursing.
Submitted by: Jason C. Wells <jcw@highperformance.net> [1]
=========
1. For all values derived from bsd.port.mk, assert that they are not empty.
This helps prevent problems when running 'find $value ...'
2. Don't try to append to the master list of distfiles if we're using -D
Refinements for /var/db/ports/$name/distfiles
=============================================
1. Only create a distfiles file if the port has distfiles
2. Delete the distfiles list and try to delete PORT_DBDIR when we pkg_delete.
(The latter will fail if there is an options file present.)
3. Define the distfiles list even if we are using -D
perl unconditonally, or conditionally. To be able to conditionalize the
inclusion of bsd.perl.mk, they now need to be defined before the inclusion
of bsd.port.pre.mk.
Hat: portmgr
============
1. Switch to saving distfile info in /var/db/ports/$name/distfiles
ala PR http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=106483
2. Keep track of distfiles we've already examined so we won't have to
do them again (or print the "keeping" message for -v more than once).
This has more benefit the more distfiles a port has.
3. Add all distfiles for the new port to DI_FILES after install.
This only makes a difference in a few cases, but it's easy to do.
Bug Fixes
=========
1. Make sure that $distdir always has a trailing slash in case it
is a symlink. [1]
2. In delete_stale(), test whether or not a file is in the _current_
distfile list to make sure that it is not auto_deleted by mistake. [1]
3. When building DI_FILES, only use lines starting with MD5 to avoid
adding every file > 1 time.
4. Only run read_distinfos() when we really need it.
[1] Inspired by ...
PR: ports/116298
Submitted by: NIIMI Satoshi <sa2c@sa2c.net>
pkgsearch find packages in ports in any place from your
computer , and find also packages
installeds in your system, pkgsearch use c++, boost and
sqlite3 for search packages more
fast and is compiled with cmake
PR: ports/116404
Submitted by: "Diego Rocha" <diegorocha1987@gmail.com>
requires it. This is guaranteed to break quite a number of ports;
email linimon if you find one. This patch is currently being tested
on pointyhat to help identify them.
This patch adds support to allow multiple ports on a single line.
Instead of having to do:
port1: WITH_COOL_FEATURE
port2: WITH_COOL_FEATURE
you can do this:
port1 port2: WITH_COOL_FEATURE
PR: ports/115733
Submitted by: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@freebsd.org>
Approved by: maintainer timeout
2.4.1. This is a primarily a bug-fix release for 2.4.0, and all users
are encouraged to upgrade. The changes in 2.4.1 are as follows:
* Sync with the latest applicable pointyhat changes. This includes
extraneous UID and GID checking.
* Support for creating per-Jail make.conf and src.conf files is
supported. These files should live in ${tb}/jails/JAIL, and are used
for the Jail builds. You will still need to use Hooks to populate
custom make.conf files in your Builds.
* Sorting now works properly in the www-exp frontend.
* Hooks that contain arguments with spaces can now be properly executed.
* Various other bug fixes have gone in as well.
This release would not have been possible without the contributions by
Dmitriy Kirhlarov and Alexander Logvinov (and, of course, pointyhat and
Kris).
Tested by: miwi@
===========
1. Before calling pkg_create for the installed version of the port,
cd into the PKGREPOSITORY directory. This not only simplifies the code,
it helps handle the problems of ports trees mounted read-only. [1]
2. Factor out initialization of the $pkgrep directory into a function.
Bug fixes
=========
1. Before calling 'find ${pkgrep}/ ... -delete' assert that $pkgrep is
not empty.
2. Make sure that $pkgrep is initialized everywhere it's needed.
Suggested by: Hans Lambermont <hans@lambermont.dyndns.org> [1]
* Consolidate lines that end in a '\' followed by an empty line into one
newline prior to splitting the Makefile into sections. This will more
properly catch section-related errors [1]
* Properly check pkg-config files when they contain an embedded '.' [2]
* Allow pkg-plist directive @cwd by itself which means to change the working
directory back to the original PREFIX [3]
* Beef up the warnings around DOCSDIR, EXAMPLESDIR, and DATADIR so that
users don't just use these macros without knowing if they are safe [3]
* Check for use of --mandir and --infodir [4]
PR: 112332 [1]
115455 [4]
Submitted by: rafan [4]
sat [2]
Requested by: pav [3]
* Now tracks changes to OPTIONS settings, and the effect those
have on port dependencies.
* Cleanup of warning and error messages -- new 'Warnings'
configuration variable to turn them on/off
* New 'Strict' configuration option -- at the moment this just
enforces a check that all ports are referenced from the
category Makefile in the directory above. May be extended to
other items later.
* New 'CrunchWhitespace' configuration option -- emulate the way
that 'make index' collapses multiple whitespace into single in
port description lines.
* Internal changes to data structures, cache file locking
etc. which will be needed to support multithreaded cache
initialization / update (It is coming... eventually). One
consequence is that there is no longer a dependency on
Storable.pm
* Mk/bsd.commands.mk and Mk/bsd.destdir.mk added to the list of
Makefiles where changes are not expected to affect the INDEX.
* Bugfix -- correct programming error when picking out changes to
lists of SUBDIRs in category Makefiles.
Note: You will have to reinitialize the ports cache when updating.
Unfortunately, due to the changes in BerkeleyDB locking / concurrent
access, version 2.0 code cannot even open the version 1.9 data cache.
PR: 115222
Submitted by: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> (maintainer)
the DESTDIR changes today.
2. Export pd, pdb, and distdir to avoid having to look them up each time
3. Streamline find_moved() by grepping for lines, and then recursing
4. Further streamline by using variable stripping instead of cut
<tom-freebsdorg@hukins.freeserve.co.uk>: host
mail-in.freeserve.com[193.252.22.141] said: 550 Error: Message content
rejected <565a4052e34b8ddc44ec45458da4b976> (in reply to end of DATA
command)
- Add significantly better support in bsd.python.mk for working with
Python Eggs and the easy_install system
Tested by: pointyhat runs
Approved by: pav (portmgr)
Most work by: perky
Thanks to: pav
=========
1. If we are doing --show-work, don't launch background processes
that are only useful for real builds.
2. Fix a rather obscure bug that can only happen:
IFF you are doing an install of a new port, and
IFF you have a dependency "early" in the list with an +IGNOREME file, and
IFF you have one or more dependencies "late" in the list that are not
installed. The bug is a false positive on the +IGNOREME for the uninstalled
ports. The solution is to reset the "port to test for +IGNOREME file"
variable each time through the loop. This will usually be a noop, but it
costs almost nothing in any case.
you have to reinstall portconf to get make.conf right.
As this does not affect most people, PORTREVISION is not bumped.
The patch in the PR does not work: we can not use variable in substitution.
So, the only way to do is to detect the real path of /usr/ports at
installation time.
PR: ports/104838
Submitted by: rafan
Approved by: maintainer timeout (8 months)
- Hooks : A hook is a "callout" which gives Tinderbox the ability to run custom
code at pre-determined times. For example, you can establish a Hook to run just
before a Port is built, after a Build is extracted, before a PortsTree is
updated, etc. Pre-condition hooks can even cause an operation to terminate if
so desired. The new commands to manipulate Hooks are tc listHooks and
tc updateHookCmd.
- OPTIONS processing : If you enable OPTIONS support in Tinderbox, you can have
tc addPort automatically prompt you to configure OPTIONS. Just run tc addPort
with the new -o argument, and you will be prompted with the usual dialog(1)
screen to configure OPTIONS. OPTIONS configuration will happen recursively if
the -r argument is specified, and non-recursively otherwise.
- Failed dependents tracking : If a port fails to build, it will update the
datastore for all of its dependents so that they will be reported as
pseudo-failed. That is, they will have a unique appearance in the www-exp
frontend to indicate that they were not built because a dependency failed.
- Port build duration is tracked and an estimated time to completion is now
shown in the www-exp frontend.
- The /usr/X11R6 symlink is now ignored and not treated as a leftover.
Note: This release comes with a pretty hefty schema change, so one must run
upgrade.sh to add the new schema elements.
* bsd.php.mk can now be included after bsd.port.pre.mk [1]
* Tighten the check on *_DEPENDS so that it only looks at BUILD, FETCH, PATCH,
LIB, and RUN DEPENDS [2]
PR: 110461 [1]
Submitted by: Alexander Logvinov <ports@logvinov.com> [1]
Reported by: Alexander Logvinov <ports@logvinov.com> [2]
============
1. Keep a temporary flag that indicates a port has already been upgraded
during a -r or -f update, and add a -R (retry) option to let the user
skip those ports on subsequent attempts if the first update is interrupted.
2. Change the default behavior to use 'make config-conditional' to
take advantage of the recent enhancements to the OPTIONS functionality.
3. Add a new --force-config flag to use the old behavior of doing
'make config' for every port.
4. Don't delete backup packages until the original (parent) portmaster
process has finished successfully. That way if an update fails, the user
can back out the whole thing.
5. Add -w option to save old shared libraries from an installed port.
6. Add -x option to avoid building ports that match the glob pattern.
7. Split tracking of build and run depends to before and after the
port build respectively.
Enhancements
============
1. If the user interrupts the update, search for errant dialog
processes as well as errant portmaster child processes.
2. Avoid invoking pkg_version in check_for_updates() if the installed
version is already up to date.
3. Call pkg_info for seemingly stale dependencies (-s) so user has
a better idea what he's being asked to delete.
4. Use -DBATCH when calling 'make checksum' in the background so that
ports that have pre-everything dialogs no longer cause runaway dialog
processes.
5. Add BEFOREPORTMK=yes where it can be used to speed things up.
Thanks to Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
6. Be smarter about not starting read_distinfos in the background if
there is no need to, and be more aggressive in killing it off when
we're done.
7. Make read_distinfos quieter to avoid printing confusing messages
out of synch with the foreground process.
Changes
=======
1. Use the PKGREPOSITORY directory for all packages, create it if it
doesn't already exist.
2. If we fail(), call one of {trap|safe}_exit to do a better job of
cleaning up after ourselves.
3. Make failures of various commands silent when we provide our own
error message.
4. Make killing background processes generally much quieter.
Bug Fixes
=========
1. In check_for_updates(), when FORCE is on, don't skip an up to date
port.
2. Change MAKE_ARGS to PM_MAKE_ARGS to avoid collisions with ports that
use the former already.
3. Fix grammar in a usage() line, add details for --show-work, and
other various improvements.
4. Move the clean target to after (optional) 'make package' to avoid
having to rebuild the port.
5. Only try to update the +CONTENTS file if it exists.
From the Announce:
Tinderbox 2.3.6 has been released to address the change of X11BASE
from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local. A few other bugfixes are also included.
All users are encouraged to upgrade. When you do, you will have to
manually copy rawenv.dist to rawenv to get the X11BASE change to take
effect.
Approved by: portmgr (pav) itetcu@ (maintainer)
into a temporary directory, and then examining the directory tree. The
process is based on the instructions for plist generation in the
FreeBSD Porter's Handbook.
WWW: http://www.neuro.mcw.edu/~bacon/FreeBSD_MRI
PR: ports/111892
Submitted by: Jason Bacon bacon at smithers.neuro.mcw.edu
Sponsord by: addport
============
1. --show-work option which will recurse through all-depends-list
and show what dependencies are, and are not installed.
2. Dramatically reduce false positives for per-port distfile cleaning
by creating a list of valid distfiles for all ports. Use this new
method for the --clean-distfiles* options as well.
Bug Fix
=======
Honor DISTDIR if set for --clean-distfiles*
An unpleasant bug was fixed when pkgdb could accidently remove some
dependencies in +CONTENTS files. It's recomented to run pkgdb -L once
after upgrade to fix dependencies list. See UPDATING file.
Reported and tested by: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix_AT_earthlink.net>
============
If a user were to specify /var/db/pkg/foo-1.2/ on the command line,
the old code already failed, but by telling people that it's ok to
do that now, I exposed one more place this needed to be fixed. Take
the opportunity to fix this in a more thorough way.
===========
--clean-distfiles[-all] options to check /usr/ports/distfiles for
stale stuff, and either offer to delete them or delete them all
without prompting.
Bug Fix
=======
Fix brain-o that broke the -o option.
Usability Improvements
======================
1. If a port skeleton is missing, but the pkg db has an +IGNOREME
file, skip the update check, but issue a warning for it.
2. If there is no +IGNOREME file, and no version information is
present, fail with a helpful error message.
3. Clean up any trailing / character on directory names input
at the command line.
4. Allow user to specify just category/portname on the command
line without -p.
5. Work around a missing +REQUIRED_BY file for a -r port.
Minor cleanup
=============
Make case consistent for all usage() items
Changelog:
- portsopt now includes the output of make showconfig
- Fixed a bug with curly brackets. Reported by: bachi (AT) te-clan DOT ch
PR: 109138
Submitted by: Beat Gaetzi <beat@chruetertee.ch> (maintainer)
* Add a check to see if EXTRACT_SUFX is ".zip" and suggest USE_ZIP instead [1]
* Remove the now obsoleted DEPENDS macro
* Remove the obsoleted Java 1.0 check
* Add support for USE_CDRTOOLS
* Add a check for direct usage of gs (i.e. ghostscript) [2]
PR: 107265 [2]
Requested by: gabor [1]
DEPENDS is gone from the bsd.ports.mk: reflect this in the index
processing code.
PR: 108749
Submitted by: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> (maintainer)
FreeBSD ports tree, and potentially other software repositories.
Various factors make this task a bit more difficult than it might
initially seem. In particular, the array of weird and wonderful
versioning schemes software vendors manage to come up with.
portscout spawns several child processes and does its version checking
in parallel, while attempting to best-guess strange-looking version
numbers, navigate around unhelpful sites and web servers, and contend
with the CPU-heavy rapidly-expanding FreeBSD ports system.
In addition to all this, it is possible to generate nice HTML reports
and send reminder mails to interested parties.
This should probably be considered beta until v1.0 is released.
