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elephant Powerful data provider service and backend for application launchers
2.1.8_2 sysutils 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 1.0.8Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: tagattie@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-09-17 02:18:08
Last Update: 2025-10-15 15:00:20
Commit Hash: d061fc9
License: GPLv3
WWW:
https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant
Description:
Elephant - cuz it's phat - is a powerful data provider service and backend for building custom application launchers and desktop utilities. It provides various data sources and actions through a plugin-based architecture, communicating via Unix sockets and Protocol Buffers. Elephant acts as a unified backend service that aggregates data from various sources (desktop applications, files, clipboard history, etc.) and provides a consistent interface for frontend applications like custom launchers, productivity tools, or desktop widgets.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ 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
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  1. bin/elephant
  2. etc/xdg/elephant/providers/calc.so
  3. etc/xdg/elephant/providers/clipboard.so
  4. etc/xdg/elephant/providers/desktopapplications.so
  5. etc/xdg/elephant/providers/files.so
  6. etc/xdg/elephant/providers/menus.so
  7. etc/xdg/elephant/providers/providerlist.so
  8. etc/xdg/elephant/providers/runner.so
  9. etc/xdg/elephant/providers/symbols.so
  10. etc/xdg/elephant/providers/todo.so
  11. etc/xdg/elephant/providers/unicode.so
  12. etc/xdg/elephant/providers/websearch.so
  13. /usr/local/share/licenses/elephant-2.1.8_2/catalog.mk
  14. /usr/local/share/licenses/elephant-2.1.8_2/LICENSE
  15. /usr/local/share/licenses/elephant-2.1.8_2/GPLv3
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • elephant>0:sysutils/elephant
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/elephant/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install sysutils/elephant
  • pkg install elephant
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: elephant
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
NOT_FOR_ARCHS: aarch64 armv7 i386
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1760429024 SHA256 (go/sysutils_elephant/elephant-v2.1.8/v2.1.8.mod) = 14a4b55d5d6ccd87e99494525a571abd0c17a79c426f3caeba09bd1dc3f08448 SIZE (go/sysutils_elephant/elephant-v2.1.8/v2.1.8.mod) = 994

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SHA256 (go/sysutils_elephant/elephant-v2.1.8/v2.1.8.zip) = 8682dcd8bef3294bd5f22b13680e45d1a7ea6dedad8df39a4873b310f204e061 SIZE (go/sysutils_elephant/elephant-v2.1.8/v2.1.8.zip) = 7135212

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
elephant
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest-1.3.2_1---n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly-1.1.1---n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest-2.1.4------
FreeBSD:14:quarterly-1.1.1------
FreeBSD:15:latest-2.1.4n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly-1.1.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest-2.1.4n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. go125 : lang/go125
Runtime dependencies:
  1. qalc : math/libqalculate
  2. wl-copy : x11/wl-clipboard
  3. wl-copy : x11/wl-clipboard
  4. fd : sysutils/fd
  5. wl-copy : x11/wl-clipboard
  6. notify-send : devel/libnotify
  7. wl-copy : x11/wl-clipboard
Fetch dependencies:
  1. go125 : lang/go125
This port is required by:
for Run
  1. x11/walker
Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for elephant-2.1.8_2: DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation ====> Enabled providers CALC=on: Perform calculation and unit-conversions CLIPBOARD=on: Store clipboard history DESKTOPAPPLICATIONS=on: Run installed desktop applications FILES=on: Find files/folders MENUS=on: Create custom menus PROVIDERLIST=on: Lists all providers and configured menus RUNNER=on: Execute everything installed in your PATH SYMBOLS=on: Search for emojis and symbols TODO=on: Basic Todolist UNICODE=on: Search for unicode symbols WEBSEARCH=on: Search web with custom defined search engines ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
sysutils_elephant
USES:
go:1.25,modules zip
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/abenz1267/elephant/v2/@v/
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Number of commits found: 10

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
2.1.8_2
15 Oct 2025 15:00:20
commit hash: d061fc9816e69509e9d75a0c7763b7bc9d3b898acommit hash: d061fc9816e69509e9d75a0c7763b7bc9d3b898acommit hash: d061fc9816e69509e9d75a0c7763b7bc9d3b898acommit hash: d061fc9816e69509e9d75a0c7763b7bc9d3b898a files touched by this commit		 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) search for other commits by this committer 
sysutils/elephant: look for LOCALBASE/etc/xdg for installed providers

github.com/adrg/xdg specifies only /etc/xdg as the configuration
directories. However, LOCALBASE/etc/xdg is usual in FreeBSD. So add
the path to the config directories.
2.1.8_1
14 Oct 2025 15:10:15
commit hash: d571ec94a3f93bfead6c3a22d3ca104fc26234d0commit hash: d571ec94a3f93bfead6c3a22d3ca104fc26234d0commit hash: d571ec94a3f93bfead6c3a22d3ca104fc26234d0commit hash: d571ec94a3f93bfead6c3a22d3ca104fc26234d0 files touched by this commit		 Adam Weinberger (adamw) search for other commits by this committer 
various: Bump go ports for go-1.25.3
2.1.8
14 Oct 2025 08:50:44
commit hash: 5cee8eb8b94d6967a37ace0fc413522ccd99e54bcommit hash: 5cee8eb8b94d6967a37ace0fc413522ccd99e54bcommit hash: 5cee8eb8b94d6967a37ace0fc413522ccd99e54bcommit hash: 5cee8eb8b94d6967a37ace0fc413522ccd99e54b files touched by this commit		 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) search for other commits by this committer 
sysutils/elephant: update to 2.1.8

Changelog:
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v2.1.5
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v2.1.6
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v2.1.7
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v2.1.8

Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
2.1.4
12 Oct 2025 13:51:21
commit hash: 2af6ccc8e98fb366726bd4b505a7d69bd86d8e3ccommit hash: 2af6ccc8e98fb366726bd4b505a7d69bd86d8e3ccommit hash: 2af6ccc8e98fb366726bd4b505a7d69bd86d8e3ccommit hash: 2af6ccc8e98fb366726bd4b505a7d69bd86d8e3c files touched by this commit		 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) search for other commits by this committer 
sysutils/elephant: update to 2.1.4

While here, add aarch64 and armv7 to unsupported architectures since
buildmode=plugin is not supported on them on FreeBSD.

Changelog:
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.3.3
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v2.0.0
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v2.1.0
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v2.1.1
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v2.1.2
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v2.1.3
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v2.1.4

Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
1.3.2_1
08 Oct 2025 00:41:38
commit hash: 5e46ba703e7ddaed1081ba1f8fa4f893fff7715fcommit hash: 5e46ba703e7ddaed1081ba1f8fa4f893fff7715fcommit hash: 5e46ba703e7ddaed1081ba1f8fa4f893fff7715fcommit hash: 5e46ba703e7ddaed1081ba1f8fa4f893fff7715f files touched by this commit		 Adam Weinberger (adamw) search for other commits by this committer 
many: Bump dependent ports after go125 update
1.3.2
03 Oct 2025 02:37:01
commit hash: b110ad07ef50e3c00cade0af34e65c34037da895commit hash: b110ad07ef50e3c00cade0af34e65c34037da895commit hash: b110ad07ef50e3c00cade0af34e65c34037da895commit hash: b110ad07ef50e3c00cade0af34e65c34037da895 files touched by this commit		 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) search for other commits by this committer 
sysutils/elephant: update to 1.3.2

Changelog:
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.2.0
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.2.1
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.3.0
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.3.1
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.3.2

Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
1.1.1
01 Oct 2025 08:48:46
commit hash: 2e4ef13555e63f02d5e85d7ce778d4cfbfbb64eecommit hash: 2e4ef13555e63f02d5e85d7ce778d4cfbfbb64eecommit hash: 2e4ef13555e63f02d5e85d7ce778d4cfbfbb64eecommit hash: 2e4ef13555e63f02d5e85d7ce778d4cfbfbb64ee files touched by this commit		 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) search for other commits by this committer 
sysutils/elephant: update to 1.1.1

Changelog:
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.0.9
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.1.0
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.1.1

Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
1.0.8
27 Sep 2025 03:47:09
commit hash: 15c8cb540d3124bcb14a2286043710e0be452042commit hash: 15c8cb540d3124bcb14a2286043710e0be452042commit hash: 15c8cb540d3124bcb14a2286043710e0be452042commit hash: 15c8cb540d3124bcb14a2286043710e0be452042 files touched by this commit		 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) search for other commits by this committer 
sysutils/elephant: update to 1.0.8

Changelog: https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.0.8

Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
1.0.7
21 Sep 2025 05:19:00
commit hash: 56f44da02d2d1aac899dd7c3d787426c9eff1654commit hash: 56f44da02d2d1aac899dd7c3d787426c9eff1654commit hash: 56f44da02d2d1aac899dd7c3d787426c9eff1654commit hash: 56f44da02d2d1aac899dd7c3d787426c9eff1654 files touched by this commit		 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) search for other commits by this committer 
sysutils/elephant: update to 1.0.7

Changelog:
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.0.5
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.0.6
- https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant/releases/tag/v1.0.7

Reported by:	GitHub (watch releases)
1.0.4
17 Sep 2025 02:14:53
commit hash: 69c6b53b77126e6cac417511f43971452663c41ecommit hash: 69c6b53b77126e6cac417511f43971452663c41ecommit hash: 69c6b53b77126e6cac417511f43971452663c41ecommit hash: 69c6b53b77126e6cac417511f43971452663c41e files touched by this commit		 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) search for other commits by this committer 
sysutils/elephant: add port: Powerful data provider service and backend for
application launchers

Elephant - cuz it's phat - is a powerful data provider service and
backend for building custom application launchers and desktop
utilities. It provides various data sources and actions through a
plugin-based architecture, communicating via Unix sockets and Protocol
Buffers.

Elephant acts as a unified backend service that aggregates data from
various sources (desktop applications, files, clipboard history, etc.)
and provides a consistent interface for frontend applications like
custom launchers, productivity tools, or desktop widgets.

WWW: https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant

Number of commits found: 10
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