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Pav Lucistnik authored and Pav Lucistnik committed May 22, 2006
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This is the FreeBSD Ports Collection. For an easy to use
WEB-based interface to it, please see:

http://www.freebsd.org/ports
http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports

For general information on the ports collection, please see the
FreeBSD Handbook which is available from:
For general information on the Ports Collection, please see the
FreeBSD Handbook ports section which is available from:

file://localhost/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html
for the latest official version
or:
The ports(7) manual page (man ports).

(if you installed the doc distribution on your machine)
These will explain how to use ports and packages.

Or:
If you would like to search for a port, you can do so easily by
saying (in /usr/ports):

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

for the latest official version from FreeBSD-current.
make search name="<name>"
or:
make search key="<keyword>"

The section "The Ports Collection" will tell you how to use the
ports and packages and the "Porting Applications" section
describes how one can contribute to the ports collection.
which will generate a list of all ports matching <name> or <keyword>.
make search also supports wildcards, such as:

If you would like to search for a given port, you can do so easily
by saying:
make search name="gtk*"

make search key="<keyword>"
For information about contributing to FreeBSD ports, please see the Porter's
Handbook, available at:

Which will generate a list of all ports matching <keyword>.
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/

NOTE: This tree can GROW significantly in size during normal usage!
NOTE: This tree will GROW significantly in size during normal usage!
The distribution tar files can and do accumulate in /usr/ports/distfiles,
and the individual ports will also use up lots of space in their work
subdirectories unless you remember to "make clean" after you're done
building a given port. /usr/ports/distfiles can also be periodically
cleaned without ill-effect, though if you don't have the original
distribution tarball(s) for something on CDROM then you will need to pull
it all over your network connection again if you ever try to build the
associated port.
cleaned without ill-effect.

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