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Port details
roottail Print text directly to X11 root window
1.2_3 sysutils Deleted on this many watch lists=19 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 1.2_3Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Broken BROKEN: unfetchable
Deprecated DEPRECATED: Broken for more than 6 months
Expired This port expired on: 2020-05-05
Ignore IGNORE: is marked as broken: unfetchable
Maintainer: xride@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: unknown
Last Update: 2020-05-05 15:38:12
SVN Revision: 534093
People watching this port, also watch:: unzip, sudo, gmake, zip
License: not specified in port
WWW:
http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html
Description:
Simple utility to tail files/logs to a root X window. Useful for keeping tabs on log files in X without having an additional terminal window open. WWW: http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html
Homepage    cgit ¦ GitHub ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/root-tail
  2. man/man1/root-tail.1.gz
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Dependency lines:
  • roottail>0:sysutils/roottail
No installation instructions:
This port has been deleted.
PKGNAME: roottail
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
SHA256 (root-tail-1.2.tar.gz) = 08fb829cc0edd533aaf2af7bcf12d877a6ff51d60c59be48ba354c5940b80691 SIZE (root-tail-1.2.tar.gz) = 20805 SHA256 (roottail-1.2+xfce.diff) = 973d68086d7415359096c5113c80b71580d21ade8ae1715021897ef8feed3b52 SIZE (roottail-1.2+xfce.diff) = 16326

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Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. imake : devel/imake
  2. tradcpp : devel/tradcpp
  3. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  4. xext.pc : x11/libXext
Runtime dependencies:
  1. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  2. xext.pc : x11/libXext
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
N/A
USES:
imake xorg
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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Port Moves
  • port moved to sysutils/root-tail on 2021-09-26
    REASON: Renamed to match upstream naming

Number of commits found: 27

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
1.2_3
05 May 2020 15:38:12
Revision:534093Original commit files touched by this commit
rene search for other commits by this committer
Remove expired ports:

Adjusted for ports rescued since r534032

2020-05-05 audio/festvox-czech: Broken for more than 6 months
2020-05-05 audio/gkrellmvolume2: Broken for more than 6 months
2020-05-05 audio/mixmos: Broken for more than 6 months
2020-05-05 audio/mma: Broken for more than 6 months
2020-05-05 audio/pd-cyclone: Broken for more than 6 months
2020-05-05 audio/shorten: Broken for more than 6 months
2020-05-05 audio/taglib-sharp: Broken for more than 6 months
2020-05-05 audio/xhippo: Broken for more than 6 months
2020-05-05 biology/consed: Broken for more than 6 months
2020-05-05 biology/plinkseq: Broken for more than 6 months
2020-05-05 biology/seqtools: Broken for more than 6 months
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1.2_3
04 Apr 2020 20:51:41
Revision:530719Original commit files touched by this commit Sanity Test Failure
antoine search for other commits by this committer
Deprecate ports broken for more than 6 months
1.2_3
07 Nov 2019 17:17:54
Revision:516988Original commit files touched by this commit
zeising search for other commits by this committer
Add USES=xorg USES=gl, ports categories s

Add USES=xorg and USES=gl to ports in categories starting with 's'
While here, try to sprinkle other USES (mostly gnome and sdl) as needed.
1.2_3
06 Nov 2019 16:26:35
Revision:516897Original commit files touched by this commit
antoine search for other commits by this committer
Mark a few ports BROKEN (unfetchable)
1.2_3
11 Feb 2014 17:02:37
Revision:343782Original commit files touched by this commit
miwi search for other commits by this committer
- Stage support
1.2_3
20 Sep 2013 23:06:00
Revision:327772Original 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:
sysutils)
1.2_3
28 Jun 2013 22:32:28
Revision:322004Original commit files touched by this commit
bapt search for other commits by this committer
Convert to USES=imake
Trim headers
1.2_3
24 Oct 2011 04:17:38
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dougb search for other commits by this committer
Remove more tags from pkg-descr files fo the form:

- Name
em@i.l

or variations thereof. While I'm here also fix some whitespace and other
formatting errors, including moving WWW: to the last line in the file.
1.2_3
19 Mar 2011 12:38:54
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miwi search for other commits by this committer
- Get Rid MD5 support
1.2_3
09 Jun 2009 15:33:28
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amdmi3 search for other commits by this committer
Convert most of remaining ports that depend on xorg-libraries to
modular xorg.

- supply corresponding USE_XORG for all imake-using ports that need it
- USE_IMAKE no longer implies USE_XLIB in absence of USE_XORG
- retire USE_X_PREFIX which is not really used anywhere after the
  above change
- a few minor nits like whitespace and SF macro

Tested by:      2 tinderbox runs by pav
Approved by:    portmgr (pav)
1.2_2
19 May 2007 20:32:57
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flz search for other commits by this committer
- Welcome X.org 7.2 \o/.
- Set X11BASE to ${LOCALBASE} for recent ${OSVERSION}.
- Bump PORTREVISION for ports intalling files in ${X11BASE}.
1.2_1
29 Sep 2006 22:01:23
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xride search for other commits by this committer
Change my MAINTAINER email to be my @FreeBSD email

Approved by:    tmclaugh
1.2_1
17 Jul 2006 20:05:49
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rafan search for other commits by this committer
- Pass maintainership to submitter

PR:             ports/100448
Submitted by:   Soeren Straarup <xride at x12.dk>
1.2_1
24 Mar 2006 06:23:47
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linimon search for other commits by this committer
Reset jedgar as maintainer; has not responded to email about status.

Hat:            portmgr
1.2_1
24 Jan 2006 05:43:37
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edwin search for other commits by this committer
SHA256ify (manually checked)
>
> Approved by: krion@
1.2_1
22 Dec 2004 00:19:08
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edwin search for other commits by this committer
[ patch ] sysutils/roottail: add extra patch

        Add an optional patch for root-tail. This patch replaces
        the standart root-tail code for finding root window with
        the better one, written by Johannes Jordan and Robin Hogan,
        which allows root-tail to work with some desktop environments,
        xfce4 for example.

PR:             ports/75017
Submitted by:   Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@inbox.ru>
1.2
23 Nov 2004 11:12:03
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vs search for other commits by this committer
Update to 1.2

PR:             ports/70844
Submitted by:   Roman Bogorodskiy
Approved by:    maintainer timeout
1.1
23 Jun 2004 12:13:02
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vs search for other commits by this committer
- Update to 1.1 (keramida)
- C89-ify (me)
- Grab COMMENT from man-page synopsis (me)

PR:             ports/66649
Submitted by:   keramida
Approved by:    maintainer timeout
0.2
31 Mar 2004 03:12:58
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trevor search for other commits by this committer
SIZEify (maintainer timeout)
0.2
06 Feb 2004 13:12:53
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trevor search for other commits by this committer
Use PLIST_FILES (bento-tested, marcus-reviewed).
0.2
29 Sep 2003 14:12:06
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edwin search for other commits by this committer
update sysutils/roottail to 0.2

        Update root-tail, utility to tail multiple log files on
        root window of X, to last version 0.2, which fixes broken
        -noinitial switch.

PR:             ports/50708
Submitted by:   Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
0.0.10
07 Mar 2003 06:11:20
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ade search for other commits by this committer
Clear moonlight beckons.
Requiem mors pacem pkg-comment,
And be calm ports tree.

E Nomini Patri, E Fili, E Spiritu Sancti.
07 May 2001 14:57:38
commit hash: fp1.13507@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.13507@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.13507@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.13507@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
jedgar search for other commits by this committer
Update port to 0.0.10    
15 Nov 2000 00:11:19
commit hash: fp1.6440@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.6440@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.6440@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.6440@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
jedgar search for other commits by this committer
Update port to 0.0.9    
08 Oct 2000 07:23:57
commit hash: fp1.4823@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.4823@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.4823@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.4823@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
asami search for other commits by this committer
Convert category sysutils to new layout.  
18 Jul 2000 20:44:15
commit hash: fp1.2121@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.2121@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.2121@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.2121@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
jedgar search for other commits by this committer
Update port to 0.0.6    
08 Jul 2000 04:25:23
commit hash: fp1.1701@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.1701@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.1701@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.1701@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
jedgar search for other commits by this committer
* Update WWW and MASTER_SITES to reflect the rearrangement of my     home page. 
 * Update DESCR to reflect current FreeBSD revisions    

Number of commits found: 27