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Port details
pchar Sandia Internet path characterization tool
1.5 net Deleted on this many watch lists=8 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 1.5Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Deprecated DEPRECATED: Obsolete, abandoned
Expired This port expired on: 2014-05-01
There is no maintainer for this port.
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Port Added: unknown
Last Update: 2014-05-04 10:51:02
SVN Revision: 352941
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Also Listed In: ipv6
License: not specified in port
WWW:
http://www.kitchenlab.org/www/bmah/Software/pchar/
Description:
pchar finds bandwidth, delay, average queue and loss rate of hops between source and destination. WWW: http://www.kitchenlab.org/www/bmah/Software/pchar/
Homepage    cgit ¦ GitHub ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
There is no configure plist information for this port.
Dependency lines:
  • pchar>0:net/pchar
No installation instructions:
This port has been deleted.
PKGNAME: pchar
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
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Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for pchar-1.5: DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
N/A
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Master Sites:
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  1. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/
  2. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/bmah/
  3. ftp://ftp.cn.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/bmah/
  4. ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/bmah/
  5. ftp://ftp.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/bmah/
  6. ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/bmah/
  7. ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/bmah/
  8. ftp://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/bmah/
  9. http://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/bmah/
  10. http://www.kitchenlab.org/www/bmah/Software/pchar/
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Number of commits found: 22

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
1.5
04 May 2014 10:51:02
Revision:352941Original commit files touched by this commit
rene search for other commits by this committer
Remove expired ports:
2014-04-30 x11-toolkits/gigi: Does not compile on 10 or higher
2014-04-30 net/asterisk-oh323: Depends on broken and unsupported asterisk14
2014-04-30 net/asterisk14: Broken and unsupported
2014-04-30 net/asterisk14-addons: Depends on broken and unsupported asterisk14
2014-04-30 ports-mgmt/pkg_install: Replaced by ports-mgmt/pkg
2014-05-01 x11-drivers/xf86-input-magictouch: Does not compile
2014-05-01 x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix: requires pciVideoPtr typedef
2014-05-01 x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-intel: requires pciVideoPtr typedef
2014-05-01 net/py-spreadmodule: Depends on expired net/spread
2014-05-01 net/p5-Spread-Message: Depends on expired net/spread
2014-05-01 net/p5-POE-Component-Spread: Depends on expired net/spread
2014-05-01 net/p5-Spread-Session: Depends on expired net/spread
2014-05-01 sysutils/wmmemload: Broken
2014-05-01 lang/ml-pnet: Alpha-quality abandonware - Decommissioned Dec 2012 -
Use mono
2014-05-01 lang/treecc: PNET dependency decommissioned Dec 2012
2014-05-01 lang/pnetlib: Alpha-quality abandonware - Decommissioned Dec 2012 -
Use mono
2014-05-01 lang/pnet-base: Alpha-quality abandonware - Decommissioned Dec 2012 -
Use mono
2014-05-01 benchmarks/pnetmark: PNET dependency decommissioned Dec 2012
2014-05-01 lang/pnet: Alpha-quality abandonware - Decommissioned Dec 2012 - Use
mono
2014-05-01 x11-wm/stumpwm: Broken for more than 4 months
2014-05-01 sysutils/cpupowerd: Not maintained from upstream anymore and only
supports ancient AMD K8.
2014-05-01 net/pchar: Obsolete, abandoned
2014-05-03 x11-fonts/texcm-ttf: Should be replaced by x11-fonts/stix-fonts
1.5
21 Feb 2014 13:38:29
Revision:345423Original commit files touched by this commit
ehaupt search for other commits by this committer
Remove trailing whitespaces from category net
1.5
10 Feb 2014 13:54:28
Revision:343634Original commit files touched by this commit
ehaupt search for other commits by this committer
According to the Porter's Handbook (5.12.2.3.) default options must be added to
OPTIONS_DEFINE. This policy has been implemented only recently that's why we
have many ports violating this policy.

This patch adds the default options specified in the Porter's Handbook to
OPTIONS_DEFINE where they are being used. Ports maintained by
gnome@FreeBSD.org, kde@FreeBSD.org and x11@FreeBSD.org have been excluded.

Approved by:    portmgr (bapt)
1.5
21 Jan 2014 23:47:07
Revision:340675Original commit files touched by this commit
bmah search for other commits by this committer
Schedule net/pchar for deletion.

I am the upstream author of this software.  pchar was originally
developed in a time before store-and-forward switches were common on
LANs.  Its algorithms assumed that there is only one packet queue per IP
hop.  Almost every modern network violates this assumption; thus pchar
will return incorrect results in the vast majority of environments where
it could be used today.  In addition, I have not supported this software
for over ten years.  For these reasons I am scheduling this port for
removal.

Approved by:	mat (mentor)
1.5
20 Sep 2013 22:10:25
Revision:327755Original commit files touched by this commit
bapt search for other commits by this committer
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
net)
1.5
08 Jun 2013 13:01:16
Revision:320248Original commit files touched by this commit
wg search for other commits by this committer
- Fix build with clang and warnings [1]
- Use PLIST_FILES instead of pkg-plist
- NOPORTDOCS -> PORT_OPTIONS:MDOCS

PR:		ports/178350 [1]
Submitted by:	nork [1]
Approved by:	culot / jpaetzel (mentors, implicit)
1.5
10 Oct 2012 17:44:08
Revision:305676Original commit files touched by this commit
tabthorpe search for other commits by this committer
- Fix Whom line
- Seems I neglected to abide by the community rules

Submitted by:	flo@ via irc
Pointyhat to:	tabthorpe
1.5
10 Oct 2012 17:20:50
Revision:305673Original commit files touched by this commit
tabthorpe search for other commits by this committer
- Reassign to the heap at maintainer's request
1.5
24 Oct 2011 09:11:38
Original commit files touched by this commit
dougb search for other commits by this committer
The vast majority of pkg-descr files had the following format when they
had both lines:

Author: ...
WWW: ....

So standardize on that, and move them to the end of the file when necessary.

Also fix some more whitespace, and remove more "signature tags" of varying
forms, like -- name, etc.

s/AUTHOR/Author/

A few other various formatting issues
1.5
20 Mar 2011 12:54:45
Original commit files touched by this commit
miwi search for other commits by this committer
- Get Rid MD5 support
1.5
15 Jul 2008 04:53:46
Original commit files touched by this commit
bmah search for other commits by this committer
Fix build with NOPORTDOCS.

Pointed out by: itetcu@ (and ports tinderbox)
1.5
21 Nov 2005 03:46:51
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bmah search for other commits by this committer
Add SHA256.

Also, the filename on the SIZE line was wrong for the last 9 months.
Fix this.
1.5
12 Feb 2005 21:00:20
Original commit files touched by this commit
bmah search for other commits by this committer
Update to pchar-1.5.

Contains minor bugfixes, but no real changes in functionality for FreeBSD
users.

While here, update WWW and distfile location to reflect current reality.
1.4
19 Mar 2004 01:51:15
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trevor search for other commits by this committer
Add size data, approved by maintainers.
1.4
22 May 2003 20:21:19
Original commit files touched by this commit
bmah search for other commits by this committer
Add another MASTER_SITE for distfile.
1.4
23 Feb 2003 02:30:20
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bmah search for other commits by this committer
De-pkg-comment.
13 Jun 2001 20:13:33
commit hash: fp1.15033@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.15033@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.15033@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.15033@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
bmah search for other commits by this committer
Update port to 1.4.    
15 Apr 2001 02:05:38
commit hash: fp1.12571@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.12571@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.12571@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.12571@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
bmah search for other commits by this committer
Unbreak this port on the Alpha (possibly other non-i386 architectures).   New
patch file will be subsumed into the next distfile.  No effect on   the i386, so
no PORTREVISION bump.    
09 Apr 2001 22:48:51
commit hash: fp1.12337@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.12337@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.12337@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.12337@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
bmah search for other commits by this committer
Update pchar port to 1.3.2.    
06 Feb 2001 17:47:14
commit hash: fp1.9303@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.9303@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.9303@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.9303@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
bmah search for other commits by this committer
Update net/pchar port.    
08 Oct 2000 07:19:09
commit hash: fp1.4799@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.4799@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.4799@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.4799@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
asami search for other commits by this committer
Convert category net to new layout.  
21 Jun 2000 16:34:48
commit hash: fp1.1116@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.1116@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.1116@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.1116@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
sobomax search for other commits by this committer
1.  Update to pchar-1.2.   2.  New MASTER_SITES and WWW.   3.  pchar-1.2 makes
patches/patch-PctestIpv6Udp.h unnecessary.   4.  Add patches/patch-pchar.8
(patch from author) to fix a typo.  (Will be       fixed in next pchar release.)
  5.  Install CHANGES file in doc directory.   6.  Fix PLIST to keep bento
happy.    

Number of commits found: 22