Portscout is an automated distfile check utility for the FreeBSD Ports Collection, described in detail in Section 14.5, “Portscout: the FreeBSD Ports Distfile Scanner”.
The PORTSCOUT
variable defines
special conditions within which the
Portscout distfile
scanner should be restricted.
Situations where the PORTSCOUT
variable should be set include:
When distfiles should be ignored, whether for
specific versions, or specific minor revisions. For
example, to exclude version
8.2
from distfile version
checks because it is known to be broken, add:
When specific versions or specific major and minor
revisions of a distfile should be checked. For
example, if only version
0.6.4
should be monitored
because newer versions have compatablity issues with
FreeBSD, add:
When URLs listing the available versions differ
from the download URLs. For example, to limit
distfile version checks to the download page for the
databases/pgtune
port, add:
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