Checking you the maintainer of a port?

Lars Engels lars.engels at 0x20.net
Wed Nov 27 22:03:14 UTC 2019


On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 09:07:55PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 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

There's already a target for it:

  make maintainer

in a port's directory.


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