• portconfig

Portconfig

FreeBSD provides the Ports Collection to give users and administrators a simple way to install applications. The collection provides tens of thousands of ports; port configuration is a key feature. It is possible to configure a port before the building and installation. The command "make config" uses portconfig to provides a text user interface (TUI) to set up port options interactively.

Instead portoptscli provides a Command Line Interface (CLI) to set up port options interactively. It is designed primarily for screen readers and visually impaired users but can be used by anyone wishing to use a CLI instead of a TUI.

This wiki page collects feature requests and problems to improve portconfig.

Feature requests

Problems

Please fill in a line to report a problem, to avoid wasting time caused by XY Problem.

• Description. Short description.

• Environment. Output: % echo $TERM ; echo $SHELL ; uname -r ; portconfig -v ; locale ; tput lines ; tput columns ; stty -a | grep rows. Other info to reproduce: Console (vt(4), GNOME terminal, XFCE Terminal, ...), ssh, VM, and so on.

• Step to reproduce. Precise steps to reproduce. Example: 1 boot FreeBSD X.Y. 2 Windows+putty+ssh. 3 make config in editor/vim. 4 keys A, B, C.

• PR and links. Screenshots are helpful.

• libbsddialog. Can you reproduce the problem running: "% /usr/local/bin/bsddialog --menu Testing 0 0 3 a 1 b 2 c 3 d 4 e 5" ?

• Status. Current status and notes.

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