This version is now superseded by portstreelint(8), a Python package version.
portlint2 - FreeBSD ports tree lint (standalone version)
portlint2 [--show-cat|-C] [--show-mnt|-M] [--cat|-c LIST] [--mnt|-m LIST] [--port|-p LIST] [--plist NUM] [--broken NUM] [--deprecated NUM] [--forbidden NUM] [--unchanged NUM] [--check-host|-h] [--check-url|-u] [--debug] [--info] [--version] [--help|-?] [--]
The portlint2 utility checks the FreeBSD port tree Index and some part of the port's Makefiles for errors and warnings.
By default it will scan the whole port tree, but you can select a subset of the ports with the options --cat|-c for categories, --mnt|-m for maintainers and --port|-p for ports. All these options expect a parameter which can be a single item or a comma-separated list of items. If you combine several of these operators they will perform as a logical AND.
In order to know which categories or maintainers are available for selection, you can use the --show-cat|-C and --show-mnt|-M options to view all the categories and maintainers with their number of associated ports.
The two costlier analysis are disabled by default. You can check if the port's www sites hostnames are resolvable with the --check-host|-h option (takes about 15 minutes on the whole port tree). And you can check if the port's www sites URL are available with the --check-url|-u option, which implies the previous one (takes about 6 hours on the whole port tree).
The checks list includes:
- Nonexistent Makefile
- Nonexistent INDEX:port-path
- Unusual INDEX:installation-prefix (warning)
- Too long INDEX:comments (> 70 characters) (warning)
- Uncapitalized INDEX:comments
- INDEX:comments ending with a dot
- INDEX:comments different from Makefile:COMMENT
- Nonexistent INDEX:description-file
- URL ending INDEX:description-file
- INDEX:description-file content same as INDEX:comment
- INDEX:description-file content no longer than INDEX:comment
- Nonexistent pkg-plist, Makefile:PLIST_FILES/PLIST/PLIST_SUB (info)
- Makefile:PLIST_FILES abuse (warning)
- INDEX:maintainer different from Makefile:MAINTAINER
- Unofficial categories (warning)
- INDEX:categories different from Makefile:CATEGORIES
- Empty INDEX:www-site
- Unresolvable INDEX:www-site (optional)
- Unaccessible INDEX:www-site (optional)
- INDEX:www-site different from Makefile:WWW
- Ports marked as BROKEN, FORBIDDEN or DEPRECATED
- Ports marked as IGNORE (warning, unreliable)
- Ports marked as BROKEN, FORBIDDEN or DEPRECATED for too long
- Ports unchanged for a long time (info)
It's possible to change the default values for PLIST_FILES abuse, BROKEN_since, DEPRECATED_since, FORBIDDEN_since and Unchanged_since with the --plist, --broken, --deprecated, --forbidden and --unchanged options, followed by a number of files for the first one and a number of days for the others.
| Options | Use |
|---|---|
| --show-cat|-C | Show categories with ports count |
| --show-mnt|-M | Show maintainers with ports count |
| --cat|-c LIST | Select only the comma-separated categories in LIST |
| --mnt|-m LIST | Select only the comma-separated maintainers in LIST |
| --port|-p LIST | Select only the comma-separated ports in LIST |
| --plist NUM | Set PLIST_FILES abuse to NUM files |
| --broken NUM | Set BROKEN since to NUM days |
| --deprecated NUM | Set DEPRECATED since to NUM days |
| --forbidden NUM | Set FORBIDDEN since to NUM days |
| --unchanged NUM | Set Unchanged since to NUM days |
| --check-host|-h | Enable checking hostname resolution (long!) |
| --check-url|-u | Enable checking URL (very long!) |
| --debug | Enable logging at debug level |
| --info | Enable logging at info level |
| --version | Print version and exit |
| --help|-? | Print usage and this help message and exit |
| -- | Options processing terminator |
The whole port tree under /usr/ports
- as root, get the last version with "portsnap fetch update"
- where xx is the major version of FreeBSD that you are using (as I write this xx=14). As root, get the last version with "cd /usr/ports ; make fetchindex" or rebuild it from your port tree with "cd /usr/ports ; make index"
The portlint2 utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
To analyze the full port tree in the background, do:
$ nohup portlint2 --info -hu > stdout.txt 2> stderr.txt &Results for this example are available there:
- stdout output,
- stderr output for details.
To analyze the ports of a specific maintainer identified by id@domain, do:
$ portlint2 --info -m id@domainThe portlint2 utility is not a standard UNIX command.
This implementation tries to follow the PEP 8 style guide for Python code.
None. Works only on FreeBSD, but who needs anything else?
While working on the 4th version of the pysec2vuxml tool, I noticed there were errors in the FreeBSD port Index, so I built this tool to analyze this more thoroughly...
It was a rainy Saturday anyway :-)
It is available under the 3-clause BSD license.
Requires Python 3.6 or more.