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pofig - portable shell script for probing base system properties: OS, OS version, kernel version, distro, distro version, architecture.
It detects: 19 operating systems, 11 major linux distros, 13 CPU types.
See wiki for more information and examples.
cmdok checks that specified commands are OK. If command is OK than it exists in PATH and can be run.
It is a simple, small and portable Bash script. It is useful in software packages that want to check that some commands exist before trying to run them.
See wiki for more information and examples.
Tools for developing and testing and submitting FreeBSD ports
FreeBSD Port Tools consist of the several small scripts run from port(1) front-end:
- port commit: commit a port into the FreeBSD Ports CVS Repository
- port create: create a new port from a template
- port diff: generate a diff against a previous version of the port
- port fetch: fetch distfile(s) of a new version of the port
- port getpr: get patch/shar from a PR
- port help: display usage summary for port(1) commands
- port install: install a port
- port submit: submit a PR with...
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The Orchestrator server is responsible for distribution and launch of simple apply/rollback shell scripts in a particular order across multiple servers . If for any reason deployment is failing at a particular stage the process will stop and you can rollback any changes done until then.
In case you want to deploy your code or just call your preferred DSC client to apply the configuration locally the Orchestrator can be a handy tool.
The operation can be started manually or scheduled,...
Nixstaller is an OpenSource project with the goal to create user friendly and flexible installers that work on various UNIX like systems. Some of its features are: small size overhead, large compatibility, Lua scripting and few dependencies.
The Universal Unix-Installer are 2 perl scripts that makes it easy to create a redistributable install package for binary executables on an unix platform(except Mac OSX). 1 perl script is for gathering the .so files 1 perl script for installing
Universal sw mgmt tool optimized for best resource usage.
In SW mgmt, sw is organized in packages with dependencies. Process consists of more tasks, using different resources: net, CPU
UniPkg runs tasks in parallel with optimal usage of resources.
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gpkgdep shows the FreeBSD package dependencies in three different views:
- a tree view shows all packages required by each package
- a tree view shows all packages which depend on each package
- a list view allows to play with the packages. By marking
Frenzy is a "portable system administrator toolkit," LiveCD based on FreeBSD. It generally contains software for hardware tests, file system check, security check and network setup and analysis. Size of ISO-image is 200 MBytes (3" CD).
PortRat is a port management tool built almost exclusively to allow a user to install more that one port at a time, as safely as possible. It also has, or will be implementing more common port management behaviors.
Portrookies is a collective effort to help people gaining experience in creating and maintaining FreeBSD ports without being obliged to the high standards of the ports collection. It is also a great place to test experimental ports until they stabilize.
Box 2.0 is a advanced package manager for FreeBSD (including PCBSD and DesktopBSD) and Linux. It has many features, such as compatability with existing package managers, and mounting of packages.
Semi-universal package manager currently for Debian-based distros, soon to be for FreeBSD, portable to other distros. Officially part of AnjaliOS, formerly of Phantom Linux.
FreeBSD port collection management software. Insures your ports are only built with the most
up to date sources. Great for users of KDE or GNOME that must always be concerned over the
way their underlying ports were built.
PootyPedia is a tool to track the hardware in use by a software project. Its client software finds the hardware and reports it, while the server software tracks the reports and keeps them organized in a database.
PC-BSD puts the "Personal" computing into BSD. Based on FreeBSD, it will maintain all compatibility with the FreeBSD OS, while providing some features to make desktop use easier, such as a graphical installer and graphical desktop, running KDE.
Portdowngrade helps to downgrade FreeBSD ports by analyzing
the history of commits to the port and presenting the user
the list of changes. By selecting one, the port can be set
back to a previous version easily.
qhotwire is a qt-based graphical internet client authentication software running on linux & FreeBSD for users of Hotwire Internet Services, a broadband internet service provider in India. It is available in a command-line version as well.