NAME

portgen — port modules on the fly

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The portgen utility creates ports for the given module-name from type module framework. The module is downloaded, analyzed and translated into a port. Any missing dependencies are handled recursively. New ports will land under ${PORTSDIR}/mystuff. The PORTSDIR value will be taken from current user environment, and defaults to /usr/ports.

The portgen utility currently supports the following type values:

p5

for Perl modules on CPAN.

py

for Python modules on PyPI.

ruby

for Ruby gems.

go

for Go modules.

The following packages must be installed prior to the invocation of portgen:

• sqlports
• p5-DBI
• p5-DBD-SQLite

EXIT STATUS

The portgen utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

The following command will download the latest version of Config::AutoConf from CPAN, parse it and create a port for it:

SEE ALSO

port-modules(5), ports(7)

HISTORY

The portgen utility first appeared in OpenBSD 5.9 as a result of Google Summer of Code 2015.

AUTHORS

Giannis Tsaraias <‍tsg@openbsd.org>

CAVEATS

Not every module could be converted to a port.