1This is the MidnightBSD Ports Collection. 2 3 https://www.MidnightBSD.org/mports 4 5Download, file bug reports or submit patches via github: 6 https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mports 7 8For documentation, consult: 9 10 The ports(7) manual page (man ports). 11 12 MidnightBSD website https://www.midnightbsd.org/ 13 14If you would like to search for a port, you can do so easily by 15saying (in /usr/mports): 16 17 18 make search name="<name>" 19 or: 20 make search key="<keyword>" 21 22which will generate a list of all ports matching <name> or <keyword>. 23make search also supports wildcards, such as: 24 25 make search name="gtk*" 26 27To use packages instead, use the mport command to install. You can find 28out what pacakges are available on the midnightbsd app store 29http://app.midnightbsd.org/ 30 31You can also learn about package builds and their progress 32https://www.midnightbsd.org/magus/ 33 34To create packages, one must use the magus software, which is included 35in Tools/magus Tools/lib and so on. 36 37NOTE: This tree will GROW significantly in size during normal usage! 38The distribution tar files can and do accumulate in /usr/mports/Distfiles, 39and the individual mports will also use up lots of space in their work 40subdirectories unless you remember to "make clean" after you're done 41building a given port. /usr/mports/Distfiles can also be periodically 42cleaned without ill-effect. 43 44## Supported Releases ## 45We currently support MidnightBSD 3.x+ with mports. 46 47Users on older releases should checkout a quarterly tagged release or an older point in time relative to 48when the release was out. 49 50## Contributing ## 51 52If you wish to contribute to mports, submit via github on 53https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mports 54 55Feel free to create a pull request to update any mports in this repository. 56All contributions must be provided under the same BSD 2-clause license we use. 57 58If you're looking for ways to contribute, try fixing problems listed in repology: 59https://repology.org/repository/mports/problems 60 61You can also submit bug reports about mports at https://bugreport.midnightbsd.org/ 62 63[](https://repology.org/repository/mports) 64
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