Checking you the maintainer of a port?

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 27 21:08:03 UTC 2019


On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 02:05:56PM -0700, Janky Jay, III wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 11/27/19 2:03 PM, @lbutlr wrote:
> > I thought that the maintainer of a port was listed somewhere in the files at user/ports/<group>/portbase/ but evidently not. What is the easiest way to find out, sitting in console on a server without a GUI, to find out who the maintainer is? (On my desktop I can just google and launch a browser, but that is not possible on most of the servers which do not have web clients installed.
> > 
> > (Right now I am looking for the maintainer of roundcube, but this is a general question.)
> > 
> 
> 	Please see the "MAINTAINER=" line in the port's "Makefile".

A slightly more general answer is:

cd /usr/ports/<group>/<port>; make -V MAINTAINER

-- Brooks
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