Find installed unmaintained ports
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The FreeBSD ports collection is huge. Not all ports are fortunate enough to have a maintainer, this script can show you a list of unmaintained ports installed on a FreeBSD system:
#!/bin/sh
prefix=/usr/ports/
makefile=/Makefile
for file in `pkg_info -oxa | grep "/"`
do
if test -f ${prefix}${file}${makefile}
then
yes=`grep MAIN ${prefix}${file}${makefile} | grep -i 'ports@freebsd\.org'`
if [ -n "$yes" ]
then
echo $file
fi
fi
done
I found the script in this thread on the freebsd-ports@ mailing list.
I plan to run the script now and then to see if anything I really need is unmaintained, and if so I might consider becoming the maintainer.
Later in the same thread I found this little gem, which will list all installed ports that are marked as DEPRECATED:
#!/bin/sh
prefix=/usr/ports/
makefile=/Makefile
for file in `pkg_info -oxa | grep "/"`
do
yes=`grep DEPRECATED= ${prefix}${file}${makefile}`
if [ -n "$yes" ]
then
echo $file $yes
fi
done