Alien:...:ports(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is Alien::Packages::Pkg_Info::ports — a little Perl module whose whole entire job is dealing with FreeBSD's Ports. that's it, that's the vibe. it's the Alien:...:ports(3pm) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the universe and it is, lowkey, iconic. 💅

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🦋 ISA 🦋

the ancestry check, the nepo baby lineage, the family tree:

Alien::Packages::Pkg_Info::ports
ISA Alien::Packages::Base

so like, it is Alien::Packages::Pkg_Info::ports and it inherits from Alien::Packages::Base. periodt. 👑

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🎀 SUBROUTINES/METHODS 🎀

here's where the actual slay happens. three methods, all of them doing exactly what it says on the tin, no cap. ✨

🌸 usable 🌸

returns true when the command pkg_info could be found in the path and pkg_info -qP returns a valid release date.

so basically: is pkg_info even here, and does it actually answer back with a real release date? both boxes checked = true. that's the vibe check. 🫶

🌈 list_packages 🌈

returns the list of installed FreeBSD ports.

just... all of them. the whole collection. your port haul. 💖

⭐ list_fileowners ⭐

returns the names of the ports which have installed the requested files.

you give it files, it tells you which ports own them. like a detective but make it ports. 🕵️‍♀️✨

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Jens Rehsack, "<rehsack at cpan.org>"

shoutout to the author, we love a legend. 🫶

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👑 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 2010 Jens Rehsack.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

bestie this is free software — remix it, share it, redistribute it, just respect the terms, mwah 💋

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and that's the whole page, fr fr. this was Alien:...:ports(3pm) from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — thanks for scrolling with me, ily, go install some ports 🎀🦋💖