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Port details on branch 2023Q4
star Unique standard tape archiver with many enhancements
2023.09.28 archivers on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout Package not present on quarterly.This is expected early in the quarter (because the new packaage repo has not been built yet.). Otherwise, this missing version is most likely a FreshPorts error.
Maintainer: fuz@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2023-12-03 10:21:38
Last Update: unknown
License: CDDL
WWW:
http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/star.html
Description:
Star is the fastest known implementation of a tar archiver. Main advantages over other tar implementations: fifo - Keeps the tape streaming. pattern matcher - For a convenient user interface. sophisticated diff - User tailorable interface for comparing tar archives against file trees. no namelen limitation - Pathnames of arbitrary length may be archived. deals with all 3 times - Stores/restores all 3 times of a file. does not clobber files - More recent copies on disk will not be clobbered from tape. automatic byte swap - star automatically detects swapped archives. automatic format detect - Automatically detects archive formats: old tar, gnu tar, ansi tar, star. support for ACLS and - star supports Access Control Lists as well as file flags extended file flags fully ansi compatible - star is fully ANSI/Posix 1003.1 compatible. sophisticated error - Allows to tell star which error types should be control ignored for which file name pattern true incremental - star uses the same method as dump(8)/restore(8) dump/restore features but acts OS and FS independent
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/star-2023.09.28/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/star-2023.09.28/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/star-2023.09.28/CDDL
  4. @comment bin/gnutar
  5. bin/scpio
  6. bin/smt
  7. bin/spax
  8. bin/star
  9. bin/star_sym
  10. bin/strar
  11. bin/suntar
  12. bin/ustar
  13. etc/default/srmt
  14. etc/default/star
  15. sbin/srmt
  16. share/doc/srmt/default-srmt.sample
  17. @comment share/man/man1/gnutar.1.gz
  18. share/man/man1/srmt.1.gz
  19. share/man/man1/scpio.1.gz
  20. share/man/man1/smt.1.gz
  21. share/man/man1/spax.1.gz
  22. share/man/man1/star.1.gz
  23. share/man/man1/star_sym.1.gz
  24. share/man/man1/strar.1.gz
  25. share/man/man1/suntar.1.gz
  26. share/man/man1/ustar.1.gz
  27. share/man/man5/star.5.gz
  28. @owner
  29. @group
  30. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • star>0:archivers/star
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/archivers/star/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install archivers/star
  • pkg install star
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: star
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1696014231 SHA256 (schily-2023-09-28.tar.bz2) = e7dca444c9dfde87ba52a2de7514db5b49427b977d3a23fb081692fe8bac9439 SIZE (schily-2023-09-28.tar.bz2) = 4868865

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Master port: devel/schilybase
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. smake : devel/smake
  2. gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 : devel/gettext-runtime
Library dependencies:
  1. libschily.so : devel/schilybase
  2. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for star-2023.09.28: DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation GNUTAR=off: Install a gnutar binary ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
archivers_star
USES:
tar:bz2 compiler gettext-runtime iconv
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. http://fuz.su/pub/schilytools/
  2. https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/schilytools/
  3. https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
  4. https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
  5. https://schilytools.pkgsrc.pub/pub/schilytools/
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