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portroach-2.0.11p8

OpenBSD ports distfile version scanner

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Description

Portroach is a tool which looks for new versions of software in the OpenBSD 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.

Package information

Ports path
misc/portroach
Package architecture
*
Maintainer
Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@openbsd.org>
Categories
misc
Available flavors
None listed

These are ports metadata. Binary availability depends on the release, architecture and mirror. Build and test dependencies are not an installation checklist.

Direct dependencies

Runtime

Installing and updating packages · Package details as JSON