Donnerstag, 24 Apr 2008

Time to make my Portscout public for all.

What is Portscout:
Portscout is a tool which looks for new versions of software in the
FreeBSD ports tree and potentially other software repositories.

Various factors make this task a bit more difficult than it might
initially seem. In particular, the array of weird and wonderful
versioning schemes software vendors manage to come up with.

In addition to all this, it is possible to generate nice HTML reports
and send reminder mails to interested parties.

Portscout is written by Shaun Amott.

Regularly updated results can be found at:

http://head.miwibox.org/portscout/

If you like, I can add you to the mailing list.
When there is an update you automatically get a mail.
Please Mail me directly.


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  1. FreeBSD News - quick links (week 17) | FreeBSD - the unknown Giant Says:

    [...] What is Portscout? Portscout is a tool which looks for new versions of software in the FreeBSD ports tree and potentially other software repositories. More… [...]

  2. Steve Says:

    I really like portscout, thanks. I was wondering if there’s a way to add a link to add an RSS feed and to possibly link to PRs for ports?

    Thanks,
    Steve

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