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Port details on branch 2023Q3
signal-desktop Cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service
6.26.0 net-im 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 6.26.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: mikael@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2023-07-17 16:23:32
Last Update: 2023-07-20 10:14:13
Commit Hash: 283f531
License: AGPLv3
WWW:
https://signal.org/
Description:
Signal is a cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service developed by the Signal Technology Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC. It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. It can also be used to make one-to-one and group voice and video calls,[16][17] and the Android version can optionally function as an SMS app
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/signal-desktop-6.26.0/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/signal-desktop-6.26.0/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/signal-desktop-6.26.0/AGPLv3
  4. bin/signal-desktop
  5. share/applications/signal-desktop.desktop
  6. share/pixmaps/signal-desktop.png
  7. share/signal-desktop/LICENSE.electron.txt
  8. share/signal-desktop/LICENSES.chromium.html
  9. share/signal-desktop/chrome_100_percent.pak
  10. share/signal-desktop/chrome_200_percent.pak
  11. share/signal-desktop/libEGL.so
  12. share/signal-desktop/libGLESv2.so
  13. share/signal-desktop/libffmpeg.so
  14. share/signal-desktop/libvk_swiftshader.so
  15. share/signal-desktop/libvulkan.so
  16. share/signal-desktop/locales/af-ZA.pak
  17. share/signal-desktop/locales/af.pak
  18. share/signal-desktop/locales/am.pak
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  112. share/signal-desktop/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/@signalapp/ringrtc/build/freebsd/libringrtc-x64.node
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  114. share/signal-desktop/snapshot_blob.bin
  115. share/signal-desktop/v8_context_snapshot.bin
  116. share/signal-desktop/vk_swiftshader_icd.json
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Dependency lines:
  • signal-desktop>0:net-im/signal-desktop
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/net-im/signal-desktop/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install net-im/signal-desktop
  • pkg install signal-desktop
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: signal-desktop
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS: aarch64 amd64
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1689843016 SHA256 (signal-desktop-6.26.0-yarn-cache.tar.gz) = 6a55b06be5e2d808e684effb67fea56d9be88030d138a44f1f5dd6f3849ace19 SIZE (signal-desktop-6.26.0-yarn-cache.tar.gz) = 353616816

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SHA256 (signal-desktop-6.4.1-npm-cache.tar.gz) = 8acc503a579760faf8ea660d504f3b3ffadc495bf09584228da4cc9af20e33fe SIZE (signal-desktop-6.4.1-npm-cache.tar.gz) = 4466353 SHA256 (sqlcipher-4.5.3-fts--3.0.7--0.2.1-b633825cf7e0fdd39a6cdf128f2bd76552a88d325f2b9cd07bb87a457cefb986.tar.gz) = b633825cf7e0fdd39a6cdf128f2bd76552a88d325f2b9cd07bb87a457cefb986 SIZE (sqlcipher-4.5.3-fts--3.0.7--0.2.1-b633825cf7e0fdd39a6cdf128f2bd76552a88d325f2b9cd07bb87a457cefb986.tar.gz) = 74755812 SHA256 (signalapp-Signal-Desktop-v6.26.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 4c9fbe43c4e6727dc4a4c10507346b4f210f3b70373cc2641617c09d7bc8bb15 SIZE (signalapp-Signal-Desktop-v6.26.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 42183063

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. libcrypto.a : security/openssl30
  2. libringrtc.so : multimedia/ringrtc
  3. libsignal_node.so : net-im/libsignal-node
  4. libsignal_tokenizer.a : devel/signal-fts5-extension
  5. app-builder>0 : devel/app-builder
  6. electron25 : devel/electron25
  7. jq : textproc/jq
  8. npm : www/npm-node16
  9. vips>0 : graphics/vips
  10. yarn : www/yarn-node16
  11. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  12. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  13. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  14. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  15. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  16. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  17. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  18. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  19. xi.pc : x11/libXi
  20. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  21. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  22. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Runtime dependencies:
  1. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  2. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  3. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  4. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  5. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  6. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  7. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  8. xi.pc : x11/libXi
  9. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  10. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  11. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Library dependencies:
  1. libasound.so : audio/alsa-lib
  2. libatk-bridge-2.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  3. libatspi.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  4. libcups.so : print/cups
  5. libdbus-1.so : devel/dbus
  6. libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
  7. libevent.so : devel/libevent
  8. libexpat.so : textproc/expat2
  9. libFLAC.so : audio/flac
  10. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  11. libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
  12. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  13. libicuuc.so : devel/icu
  14. libnspr4.so : devel/nspr
  15. libnss3.so : security/nss
  16. libopenh264.so : multimedia/openh264
  17. libopus.so : audio/opus
  18. libpci.so : devel/libpci
  19. libpng16.so : graphics/png
  20. libsnappy.so : archivers/snappy
  21. libwayland-client.so : graphics/wayland
  22. libwebp.so : graphics/webp
  23. libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon
  24. libxshmfence.so : x11/libxshmfence
  25. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  26. libgbm.so : graphics/mesa-libs
  27. libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
  28. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  29. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  30. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  31. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  32. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  33. libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
  34. libxml2.so : textproc/libxml2
  35. libxslt.so : textproc/libxslt
  36. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
  37. libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
Patch dependencies:
  1. jq : textproc/jq
  2. yarn-node16>0 : www/yarn-node16
There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
net-im_signal-desktop
USES:
desktop-file-utils gettext-runtime gl gnome jpeg xorg
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/tar.gz/v6.26.0?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 6

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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6.26.0
20 Jul 2023 10:14:13
commit hash: 283f5311d16b2ed29dc59cbb869bd4c165003dfccommit hash: 283f5311d16b2ed29dc59cbb869bd4c165003dfccommit hash: 283f5311d16b2ed29dc59cbb869bd4c165003dfccommit hash: 283f5311d16b2ed29dc59cbb869bd4c165003dfc files touched by this commit		 Mikael Urankar (mikael) search for other commits by this committer 
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 6.26.0

Changes:
  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v6.26.0
(cherry picked from commit d0b0219ea0a427d5d6376afb9962bce33d84343f)
6.25.0
17 Jul 2023 16:04:28
commit hash: 8527c1ccf672a5292e0c0b81209db2496b783453commit hash: 8527c1ccf672a5292e0c0b81209db2496b783453commit hash: 8527c1ccf672a5292e0c0b81209db2496b783453commit hash: 8527c1ccf672a5292e0c0b81209db2496b783453 files touched by this commit		 Mikael Urankar (mikael) search for other commits by this committer 
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 6.25.0

Changes:
  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v6.25.0
(cherry picked from commit 9f90f83e2a5a9fc1198209d6662461f7bc117cca)
6.24.0
17 Jul 2023 16:04:19
commit hash: a7dc900feea7b185684c0525eae4ce0b9580cd7fcommit hash: a7dc900feea7b185684c0525eae4ce0b9580cd7fcommit hash: a7dc900feea7b185684c0525eae4ce0b9580cd7fcommit hash: a7dc900feea7b185684c0525eae4ce0b9580cd7f files touched by this commit		 Mikael Urankar (mikael) search for other commits by this committer 
net-im/signal-desktop: Update distinfo.

(cherry picked from commit 31e2b309fbc34757db287daf262e010d135ed15a)
6.24.0
17 Jul 2023 16:04:13
commit hash: 153f98876a48c55c38807741bb89e10bdea7ad4bcommit hash: 153f98876a48c55c38807741bb89e10bdea7ad4bcommit hash: 153f98876a48c55c38807741bb89e10bdea7ad4bcommit hash: 153f98876a48c55c38807741bb89e10bdea7ad4b files touched by this commit		 Mikael Urankar (mikael) search for other commits by this committer 
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 6.24.0

Changes:
  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v6.24.0
(cherry picked from commit 18a99d9665107e7249986a4c427449f266cf146f)
6.23.0
17 Jul 2023 16:04:02
commit hash: 68f64506dc53ab9d12aaf0904240361b581a7bcdcommit hash: 68f64506dc53ab9d12aaf0904240361b581a7bcdcommit hash: 68f64506dc53ab9d12aaf0904240361b581a7bcdcommit hash: 68f64506dc53ab9d12aaf0904240361b581a7bcd files touched by this commit		 Mikael Urankar (mikael) search for other commits by this committer 
net-im/signal-desktop: Attempt to fix build after npm update

Add the PATH to the node-gyp binary

(cherry picked from commit 01e8d78a23fc36534850212cc79fd00cec42b73c)
6.23.0
17 Jul 2023 16:04:01
commit hash: dec034d85a73a62d7b59bf9ed702d4edf7736866commit hash: dec034d85a73a62d7b59bf9ed702d4edf7736866commit hash: dec034d85a73a62d7b59bf9ed702d4edf7736866commit hash: dec034d85a73a62d7b59bf9ed702d4edf7736866 files touched by this commit		 Mikael Urankar (mikael) search for other commits by this committer 
net-im/signal-desktop: Update to 6.23.0

Changes:
  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v6.23.0
(cherry picked from commit 57c25f20a100f8989c22d5e23f459f61697782fa)

Number of commits found: 6
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