FreeBSD Ports

Some random FreeBSD Ports information for future me

Configuration file: `/etc/make.conf`

Add BATCH=YES to prevent questions and dialog4ports(1) from slowing you down.

Ports make targets from `man ports(7)`

config to force a configuration display/choice (even if BATCH=YES has been defined)
fetch and fetch-recursive to download the source packages if not cached
install and reinstall to install and force-reinstall the port and register with package database
deinstall to uninstall/remove the port and de-register from package database
build-depends-list, run-depends-list, all-depends-list to just list the names of the dependancies
clean and distclean Remove (source code or distfiles) of port and dependancies
search to search the INDEX file for a key or name value (e.g. make search key=fido)
depends to make all of the dependancies. This can be very slow if you end up having to compile things like compilers or build tools on top of other ports.

Package manager examples (pkg)

which to determine what packagename impacts which installed binary. (e.g. pkg which $(which curl) or pkg which $SHELL or pkg which /usr/local/bin/git )
info to determing what options, and overview package metadata (e.g. pkg info gnupg)
update to fetch the latest pkg catalog database as per configured repos (pkg config repos_dir)
audit -F to check for known security vulnerabilities on installed packages

Shell Snippets

Speed up building a single port from /usr/ports

By default, freebsd ports has make depends and make build-depends-list, but nothing to install the build dependancies from binary pkg packages. I use this to avoid having to build a large dependancy list of packages all from source when I only want to build a single package from source.

bld_dep_list="$(make build-depends-list | sed s/\\\/usr\\\/ports\\\///g)"
pkg install ${bld_dep_list}

daemonhorn/FreeBSD Ports Cheat Sheet.md