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Manual Pages  — PORTINDEX

NAME

INDEX – File containing information about the state of the ports tree

CONTENTS

DESCRIPTION

The port index file in /usr/ports contains various bits of information about the ports tree. Each major branch of FreeBSD has a separate index file, named "INDEX-N", where N is the major version number of the FreeBSD branch, i.e.: INDEX-7, or INDEX-8.
amp;name The name of the package.
amp;path The path to the port directory.
amp;install prefix
  The default install prefix.
amp;short description
  A short description.
amp;full description
  The path to the full description.
amp;maintainer email
  The email address of the maintainer.
amp;index The categories this port is part of.
amp;build dependencies
  Ports required to be installed prior to building this port.
amp;run dependencies
  Ports required to be installed for this port to run.
amp;website The project website for the port.
amp;e-deps Ports that may be required to extract this port.
amp;p-deps Ports that may be required to patch this port.
amp;f-deps Ports that may be required to fetch this port.

FILES

/usr/ports/INDEX-N where N is the major version number of the FreeBSD branch.

EXAMPLES

vim-6.3.15|/usr/ports/editors/vim|/usr/local|Vi "workalike", with many additional features|/usr/ports/editors/vim/pkg-descr|obrien@FreeBSD.org|editors|libiconv-1.9.2_1|libiconv-1.9.2_1|http://www.vim.org/|||

SEE ALSO

build(7), ports(7)

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Paul Armstrong and Thomas Abthorpe <Mt tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org>.

PORTINDEX (5) October 14, 2012

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