NAME

portgen — port modules on the fly

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The portgen utility creates ports for the given module-name from type module framework. The module is downloaded, analyzed and translated into a port. Any missing dependencies are handled recursively. New ports will land under ${PORTSDIR}/mystuff. The PORTSDIR value will be taken from current user environment, and defaults to /usr/ports.

The options are as follows:

-m makeopt

Pass makeopt to make(1) invocations while resolving missing dependencies, mostly useful with ‘FETCH_PACKAGES=’ to avoid building everything from scratch.

The portgen utility currently supports the following type values:

p5

for Perl modules on CPAN.

ruby

for Ruby gems.

go

for Go modules.

A go module may be used with an @version suffix to specify a tag or branch to port. The default suffix is @latest, which is interpreted as the latest release.

The following packages must be installed prior to the invocation of portgen:

• sqlports
• p5-DBI
• p5-DBD-SQLite

EXIT STATUS

The portgen utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

The following command will download the latest version of Config::AutoConf from CPAN, parse it and create a port for it:

SEE ALSO

port-modules(5), ports(7)

HISTORY

The portgen utility first appeared in OpenBSD 5.9 as a result of Google Summer of Code 2015.

AUTHORS

Giannis Tsaraias <tsg@openbsd.org>

CAVEATS

Not every module could be converted to a port.