Ports [FreeBSD WIKI]

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The term Ports when used without qualification may refer to any of the following:

The Ports Subversion Repository
- Contains many branches of the “Ports Collection”, the two supported versions at any one time being: HEAD and Quarterly
The Ports Collection
- Conceptually: The entire set of individuals ports a user can install
- Technically: Everything you get with portsnap, an svn checkout of a branch, or, all the things in /usr/ports
- Also known as: The Ports Tree
- Includes the framework
The Ports Framework: The set of files within the Mk/ subdirectory that provide features for individual ports to use.
- Ports does not work without the framework

ASCII diagrams are always useful:

`- Ports                 <-- Repository
   |─ HEAD               <-- Collection/Tree (version: HEAD)
   |  |- Mk              <-- Framework
   |  `- category
   |     `---- port      <-- A Port
   |
   `- Branches
      `- 2016Q3          <-- Collection/Tree (version: Quarterly 2016 Quarter 3)    
         |- Mk           <-- Framework
         `- category
            `---- port   <-- A Port

Info about particular ports or files in the ports tree may be placed under Ports/category/portname, or Ports/pathto/anyfile.

Ports-related articles may be placed under Ports/.

The following entries currently reside under this one: