Another handy resource is the
FreeBSD Ports
Monitoring System (also known as
portsmon
). This system comprises a
database that processes information from several sources and
allows it to be browsed via a web interface. Currently, the
ports Problem Reports (PRs), the error logs from the build
cluster, and individual files from the ports collection are
used. In the future, this will be expanded to include the
distfile survey, as well as other sources.
To get started, you can view all information about a particular port by using the Overview of One Port.
As of this writing, this is the only resource available
that maps GNATS PR entries to portnames. (PR submitters do
not always include the portname in their Synopsis, although we
would prefer that they did.) So, portsmon
is a good place to start if you want to find out whether an
existing port has any PRs filed against it and/or any build
errors; or, to find out if a new port that you may be thinking
about creating has already been submitted.
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