This repository combines:

• the FreeBSD ports collection
• PkgBase-oriented GhostBSD ports.

The combination allows simplified, coherent updates to the (base) operating system and other installed software.

For an easy-to-use web-based interface to the FreeBSD ports collection, please see FreshPorts. For more general information, see Installing Applications: Packages and Ports in the FreeBSD Handbook, or the ports(7) manual page (man ports). These will explain how to use ports and packages.

If you would like to seek a port in your copy of this repo, you can do so easily. cd to the directory e.g. /usr/ports, then:

make search name="<name>"

– or:

make search key="<keyword>"

– to generate a list of all ports matching <name> or <keyword>.

make search also supports wildcards, such as:

make search name="gtk*"

To seek available packages from the command line, options include pkg-search(8), for example:

pkg search -o pkg-provides

– and pkg-rquery(8), for example:

pkg rquery '%R %o %v\n\n%c\n\n%e' nano

For information about contributing to FreeBSD ports, see the Porter's Handbook.

Note: the size of this tree will grow significantly through normal usage! Distribution files accumulate in /usr/ports/distfiles – this directory can be occasionally cleaned without ill-effect. Buliding ports will use much space in work subdirectories – when these work files are no longer required, you can make clean.

Instructions for keeping GhostBSD ports current with FreeBSD ports.

#26 (comment)

To use the hook from FreeBSD adapted for GhostBSD.

git config --add core.hooksPath .hooks