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games/powwow 1.2.23_1

Client to play MUDs

Port info

Maintainer
otis@FreeBSD.org
Packages
latest: 1.2.23_1
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 1.2.23_1 · 64631af5a7
Quarterly
2026Q4: 1.2.23_1
Links
cgit · VuXML

Install

Package
# pkg install powwow
installs 1.2.23_1 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 1.2.23_1
Port
# cd /usr/ports/games/powwow && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/games/powwow config  # change options first
Size
135 KiB download · 348 KiB installed
Depends on
nothing
License
GPLv2
Options
1 of 1 on in the package: DOCS

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FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 161.2.23_11.2.23_1–
FreeBSD 151.2.23_11.2.23_1–
FreeBSD 141.2.23_11.2.23_11.2.23_1

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 151.2.23_11.2.23_1–
FreeBSD 141.2.23_11.2.23_11.2.23_1

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

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No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 1.2.23_1.

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Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (22)

Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 1.2.23_1
MAN?PREFIX: eleminate its usage  and move man to share/man
64631af5a7
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) · 1.2.23
games: remove 'Created by' lines

A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:

  *  <benlutz@datacomm.ch>
  *  <janos.mohacsi@bsd.hu>
  *  Aaron Baugher
  *  Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
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  *  Aaron VonderHaar <avh4@usa.net>
  *  Aaron Zauner <az_mail@gmx.at>
  *  Adam Kranzel (adam@alameda.edu)
  *  Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>
  *  Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz>
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  *  Alex Trull <freebsd.alex@trull.org>
  *  Alexander G. Chetirbock <bock@bock.nnov.ru>
  *  Alexander Langer <alex@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Alexander Logvinov <ports@logvinov.com>
  *  Alexander Vereeken <Alexander88207@protonmail.com>
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  *  Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
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  *  Alfonso S. Siciliano <alfix86@gmail.com>
  *  Alonso Cardenas Marquez <acm@FreeBSD.org>
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  *  Andrej Zverev
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  *  Ayumi M <ayu@commun.jp>
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With hat:	portmgr
d56127bdfc
Juraj Lutter (otis) · 1.2.23
games/powwow: Update to 1.2.23
ba7c7ca96c
Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 1.2.22
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
305f148f48
Juraj Lutter (otis) · 1.2.22
Update maintainer's e-mail address.

Reviewed by:	osa (mentor)
Approved by:	osa (mentor)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27649
3b403c65cb
Kurt Jaeger (pi) · 1.2.22
games/powwow: update 1.2.17 -> 1.2.22

PR:		247902
Submitted by:	Juraj Lutter <juraj@lutter.sk> (maintainer)
Relnotes:	https://www.hoopajoo.net/projects/powwow.html
		https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247902#c0
d603c20909
Kubilay Kocak (koobs) · 1.2.17_1
games/powwow: Update MAINTAINER

Current MAINTAINER address is a @subdomain.freebsd.org who's MX has been
delegated to the recipient (current MAINTAINER).

This causes issues because Bugzilla's authentication scheme has a specific
Kerberos (kpasswd) based backend for accounts matching the FreeBSD.org
domain.

This coupled with the MAINTAINER not having access to the current
MAINTAINER address, and using a different Bugzilla account email address,
has implications and causes issues with respect to verifying maintainership
for approval and other purposes (requesting feedback etc).

tl;dr: All maintainers (MAINTAINER lines) for maintainers of ports, should
have an Bugzilla account email that exactly matches that MAINTAINER line

If that is currently not the case, maintainers should either:

 1) Update the MAINTAINER line to match the Bugzilla email, OR
 2) Update their Bugzilla Email to match the MAINTAINER line in Preferences [1]

[1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=account

PR:		247902
Requested by:	koobs (bugmeister)
Approved by:	Juraj Lutter (maintainer, via email verification)
Approved by:	koobs (bugmeister)
MFH:		2020Q3 (blanket: consistent metadata)
9ef88c205b
John Marino (marino) · 1.2.17
games/powwow: document ncurses requirement (USES+=ncurses)

approved by:	infrastructure blanket
b38370ad88
Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3) · 1.2.17
- Drop @dirrm* from and add empty directories to plists

Approved by:	portmgr blanket
fbf857c478
Emanuel Haupt (ehaupt) · 1.2.17
Support staging
df6e936225
Thomas Abthorpe (tabthorpe) · 1.2.17
- Update to 1.2.17

PR:		ports/182229
Submitted by:	Juraj Lutter <otis@sk.FreeBSD.org> (maintainer)
95613aa169
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 1.2.14
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat: games)
c84e1cd8e6
Olli Hauer (ohauer) · 1.2.14
-remove MD5
b6ac748023
Martin Wilke (miwi) · 1.2.14
- Update to 1.2.14

PR:		137887
Submitted by:	Sylvio Cesar <scjamorim@bsd.com.br>
Approved by:	maintainer timeout
fc0a3788f2
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 1.2.13
- My previous commit makes it build with memrchr

Tested by:	gahr
7b8f2b92a2
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 1.2.13
- Update to 1.2.13

PR:		ports/124637
Submitted by:	Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>
Approved by:	maintainer
1e0e46e9bc
Erwin Lansing (erwin) · 1.2.10
Also mark BROKEN on recent versions of 6.x and 7.x after the MFC of memrchr

Submitted by:	pointyhat
aa283626ff
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 1.2.10
- Mark BROKEN on CURRENT: ptr.h:68: error: conflicting types for 'memrchr'

Reported by:	pointyhat
42b4ee580c
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 1.2.10
- Update to 1.2.10

PR:		ports/104394
Submitted by:	Juraj Lutter <otis@sk.freebsd.org> (maintainer)
11530669c0
Edwin Groothuis (edwin) · 1.2.5
Remove USE_REINPLACE for categories starting with a G
ff21f59f9f
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 1.2.5
- Update to 1.2.5

PR:		ports/90218
Submitted by:	Juraj Lutter <otis@sk.freebsd.org> (maintainer)
2cf198a0fa
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 1.2.4
Add powwow, another MUD client.

Submitted by:	Juraj Lutter <otis@wilbury.sk>
cf3519b6b6