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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man1/portcheck.1 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man1/portcheck.1 b/static/openbsd/man1/portcheck.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c5b9b7b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man1/portcheck.1 @@ -0,0 +1,152 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: portcheck.1,v 1.2 2019/05/29 19:37:06 fcambus Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2013 Vadim Zhukov +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF +.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 29 2019 $ +.Dt PORTCHECK 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm portcheck +.Nd validate a port before submitting +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl dNP +.Op Fl p Ar portsdir +.Op Fl x Ar pattern +.Pp +.Nm +.Fl A +.Op Fl dP +.Op Fl p Ar portsdir +.Op Fl x Ar pattern +.Op Ar subdir ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +is used to validate the +.Ox +port or port hierarchy in current directory. +It should be used before submitting ports for review to avoid making +common mistakes. +.Nm +verifies that directory and file structure for a port is in place and +that no bogus files exist. +.Pp +When it's done, +.Nm +will print detected value of port's +.Ev PKGPATH +to standard output, unless it fails in detection. +In the latter case, the +.Fl p +option should be provided. +All other (error) messages from +.Nm +end up on standard error output. +.Pp +By default, +.Nm +automatically picks up nearest parent directory named +.Dq ports , +with an optional +.Dq mystuff +or +.Dq openbsd-wip +subdirectory component, as the ports root directory. +For example: if the port being imported is located in +.Pa /home/joe/cvs/ports/openbsd-wip/devel/p5-Foo , +then the root ports directory will be detected as being +.Pa /home/joe/cvs/ports/openbsd-wip . +To override this behaviour, see the +.Fl p +option. +.Pp +The following options are available: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl A +Intended for running +.Nm +on the whole ports tree, i.e., the one lying in +.Ev PORTSDIR . +This option adds several ignore patterns (see +.Fl x +option description) and disables some other checks (e.g., for missing +distinfo). +.Ev PKGPATH +determining and printing won't be done. +Implicit change of working directory to the ports tree root is done +before starting any checks. +Also, in this mode one or more +.Ar subdir +arguments could be specified, to narrow the check only for given +subdirectories of ports tree root. +.It Fl d +Show debugging information such as calling of check routines. +.It Fl P +Disable expensive checks that use +.Dq print-plist-with-depends +target, e.g., proper usage of +.Xr gtk-update-icon-cache 1 , +.Xr update-desktop-database 1 +and +.Xr update-mime-database 1 . +.It Fl p Ar portsdir +Forces the given directory to be treated as ports root directory. +Cancels autodetection of the root ports directory made by default. +This option is useful, e.g., when you have a temporary ports tree in +a non-standard location. +.It Fl N +Intended to be used when working on new ports. +Enables the checks like the presence of REVISION markers and non-0.0 +.Ev SHARED_LIBS . +It also enables checks for the presence of CVS directories that could +be left by mistake when creating a new port based on another one. +.It Fl x +Excludes files and subdirectories matching given shell globbing pattern +from any checks. +Note that matching is done against relative path, and not against +absolute path or base name either. +I.e., to exclude the +.Dq x11/kde4/libs/logs +from checks, you must pass the whole line as argument, not just +.Dq logs . +Multiple -x options may be specified. +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +To validate a new port you've just prepared, go to port's directory and +run: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ portcheck -N +.Ed +.Pp +If you were working on updating of an existing port in CVS tree: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ portcheck +.Ed +.Pp +To run a global check of the whole +.Dq devel +category in ports tree, use the +.Fl A +option instead: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ portcheck -Ap /usr/ports devel +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr portimport 1 +.Sh HISTORY +This utility was split from +.Xr portimport 1 +in 2013 and first appeared in +.Ox 5.5 . |
