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===== FreeBSD Ports =====

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

  - The Ports [[Git]] **//[[https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/|Repository]]//**
    * Contains many branches of the "Ports Collection", the two supported versions at any one time being: main and [[Ports/QuarterlyBranch|Quarterly]]
  - The Ports **//Collection//**
    * Conceptually: The entire set of individuals ports a user can install
    * Technically: Everything you get with [[Git]] or [[https://freshports.org/net/gitup|gitup]] 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:

<code>
/usr/ports         <-- "Ports Collection" or "Ports Tree"      (2)
|- Mk              <-- "Ports Framework"                       (3)
`- category
   `---- port      <-- "A Port"
</code>

===== Further Information =====

The main page was [[https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41963|removed in October 2023]]. For posterity, in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:

[[https://web.archive.org/web/20230915210803/https://www.freebsd.org/ports/|About FreeBSD Ports — The FreeBSD Project]]

With the removal:

  * https://www.freebsd.org/ports/ began redirecting to [[https://ports.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi|FreeBSD Ports Search]]. 

In the %%FreeBSD%% Handbook:

  * [[https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/|Installing Applications: Packages and Ports]]
  * [[https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#ports-using|Using the Ports Collection]].

===== See Also =====

  * [[Community/Services]]

===== Usage in this wiki =====

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/%%'' and categorized with [[CategoryPorts]]

The following entries currently reside under this one:

  * [[Ports/BuildingPackagesThroughEmulation|BuildingPackagesThroughEmulation]]
  * [[Ports/CommonPlatformEnumeration|CommonPlatformEnumeration]]
  * [[Ports/Configure|Configure]]
  * [[Ports/DEFAULT_VERSIONS|DEFAULT_VERSIONS]]
  * [[Ports/Django|Django]]
  * [[Ports/Flags|Flags]]
  * [[Ports/FlavorsAndSubPackages|FlavorsAndSubPackages]]
  * [[Ports/FlavorsMigration|FlavorsMigration]]
  * [[Ports/FlavorsTools|FlavorsTools]]
  * [[Ports/GTK2+EOL|GTK2+EOL]]
  * [[Ports/GitQuickStart|GitQuickStart]]
  * [[Ports/INDEX|INDEX]]
  * [[Ports/Ideas|Ideas]]
  * [[Ports/LicenseInfrastructure|LicenseInfrastructure]]
  * [[Ports/LongtermTargets|LongtermTargets]]
  * [[Ports/NewCategories|NewCategories]]
  * [[Ports/Options|Options]]
  * [[Ports/PkgNameCollisions|PkgNameCollisions]]
  * [[Ports/PortabilityGuidelines|PortabilityGuidelines]]
  * [[Ports/Python2EOL|Python2EOL]]
  * [[Ports/QuarterlyBranch|QuarterlyBranch]]
  * [[Ports/SimpleGithub|SimpleGithub]]
  * [[Ports/StageDir|StageDir]]
  * [[Ports/Tasks|Tasks]]
  * [[Ports/Teams|Teams]]
  * [[Ports/ToDo|ToDo]]
  * [[Ports/TrackingUpstreamUpdates|TrackingUpstreamUpdates]]
  * [[Ports/Userbuild|Userbuild]]
  * [[Ports/Uses=perl5|Uses=perl5]]
  * [[Ports/Wishlist|Wishlist]]
  * [[Ports/fix_lib_depends|fix_lib_depends]]
  * [[Ports/libgcc_linking_problem|libgcc_linking_problem]]
  * [[Ports/openjdk_11|openjdk_11]]

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