The initial version of the Foswiki (1.0.6) port has been committed to the FreeBSD ports tree, and more information may be found here: http://www.freshports.org/www/foswiki/. At the moment, Foswiki plugins are not packaged as individual ports, but support for that is coming in a future version of the port.

-- GregLarkin - 10 Aug 2009

The first version of a FreeBSD port of Foswiki is available, and I'd like some Foswiki users on FreeBSD to give it a try before I commit it to the ports tree.

It can be downloaded from: http://people.freebsd.org/~glarkin/shars/foswiki.shar. Install the port with the following commands:

cd /usr/ports
fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~glarkin/shars/foswiki.shar
sh foswiki.shar
cd www/foswiki && make install clean
 

I'm interested in feedback for any of the following questions and more:

- Does the port have the correct OPTIONS?
- Are all necessary dependencies included?
- Is the sample Apache config file acceptable?
- Is the pkg-message clear enough?
- Are you able to get a working Foswiki installation without too much
manual tweaking?
- Does the port uninstall cleanly?

Uninstalling does leave a number of files and directories around (see
dirrmtry statements in pkg-plist) because I cannot predict how many new
topics will be created inside of the installation directory.

This port doesn't install of the plugins yet, but those will follow.

-- GregLarkin - 15 Jun 2009