1.\" $OpenBSD: portgen.1,v 1.9 2022/08/13 07:14:07 kmos Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2015 Giannis Tsaraias <tsg@openbsd.org> 4.\" Copyright (c) 2015 Vadim Zhukov <zhuk@openbsd.org> 5.\" 6.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 7.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 8.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 9.\" 10.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 11.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 12.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 13.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 14.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 15.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 16.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 17.\" 18.Dd $Mdocdate: August 13 2022 $ 19.Dt PORTGEN 1 20.Os 21.Sh NAME 22.Nm portgen 23.Nd port modules on the fly 24.Sh SYNOPSIS 25.Nm portgen 26.Op Fl m Ar makeopt 27.Ar type 28.Ar module-name 29.Sh DESCRIPTION 30The 31.Nm 32utility creates ports for the given 33.Ar module-name 34from 35.Ar type 36module framework. 37The module is downloaded, analyzed and translated into a port. 38Any missing dependencies are handled recursively. 39New ports will land under ${PORTSDIR}/mystuff. 40The 41.Ev PORTSDIR 42value will be taken from current user environment, and defaults to 43.Pa /usr/ports . 44.Pp 45The options are as follows: 46.Bl -tag -width Ds 47.It Fl m Ar makeopt 48Pass 49.Ar makeopt 50to 51.Xr make 1 52invocations while resolving missing dependencies, mostly useful with 53.Sq FETCH_PACKAGES= 54to avoid building everything from scratch. 55.El 56.Pp 57The 58.Nm 59utility currently supports the following 60.Ar type 61values: 62.Pp 63.Bl -inset -offset indent -compact 64.It Cm p5 65for Perl modules on CPAN. 66.It Cm ruby 67for Ruby gems. 68.It Cm go 69for Go modules. 70.El 71.Pp 72A 73.Cm go 74module may be used with an 75.Ar @version 76suffix to specify a tag or branch to port. 77The default suffix is 78.Ar @latest , 79which is interpreted as the latest release. 80.Pp 81The following packages must be installed prior to the invocation of 82.Nm : 83.Pp 84.Bl -item -offset indent -compact 85.It 86.Cm sqlports 87.It 88.Cm p5-DBI 89.It 90.Cm p5-DBD-SQLite 91.El 92.Sh EXIT STATUS 93.Ex -std 94.Sh EXAMPLES 95The following command will download the latest version of Config::AutoConf 96from CPAN, parse it and create a port for it: 97.Bd -ragged -offset indent 98.Nm 99p5 Config::AutoConf 100.Ed 101.Sh SEE ALSO 102.Xr port-modules 5 , 103.Xr ports 7 104.Sh HISTORY 105The 106.Nm 107utility first appeared in 108.Ox 5.9 109as a result of Google Summer of Code 2015. 110.Sh AUTHORS 111.An Giannis Tsaraias Aq Mt tsg@openbsd.org 112.Sh CAVEATS 113Not every module could be converted to a port. 114