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Port details

print/a2ps 4.15.8_1

Formats an ASCII file for printing on a postscript printer

Port info

Maintainer
dinoex@FreeBSD.org
Packages
latest: 4.15.8_1
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 4.15.8_1 · bc45b7ec88
Quarterly
2026Q4: 4.15.8_1
Formerly
print/a2ps-a4 until 2013-04-27, print/a2ps-letter until 2013-04-27, print/a2ps-letterdj until 2013-04-27
WWW
https://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/
Links
cgit · VuXML

Install

Package
# pkg install a2ps
installs 4.15.8_1 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 4.15.8_1
Port
# cd /usr/ports/print/a2ps && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/print/a2ps config  # change options first
Size
666 KiB download · 4.0 MiB installed
Depends on
devel/boehm-gc 8.2.10, devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1, lang/perl5.42 5.42.3, print/indexinfo 0.3.1_1, print/libpaper 1.1.28_1
License
GPLv3
Options
1 of 3 on in the package: NLS
Show the 2 options that are off
EMACS I18N

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 164.15.8_14.15.8_1–
FreeBSD 154.15.8_14.15.8_1–
FreeBSD 144.15.8_14.15.8_14.15.8_1

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 154.15.8_14.15.8_1–
FreeBSD 144.15.8_14.15.8_14.15.8_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.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 4.15.8_1.

Fixed (1)

Show 1 fixed
VuXML entries whose affected range the packaged version has left.

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

None.

Commits (171)

Chuck Robey (chuckr) · as print/a2ps-letter
Update a2ps port to version 4.10.2.  There was a PR (6663) opened for leaving files in /, I chose to update the port from scratch rather than troubleshoot it.  I'm very sure the new port doesn't do that. PR:		6663
66bfebec20
Thomas Gellekum (tg) · as print/a2ps-letter
Execute `ldconfig -R' at the pkg_delete step.

PR:		6281
Submitted by:	SADA Kenji <sada@e-mail.ne.jp>
944910bb30
Satoshi Asami (asami) · as print/a2ps-letter
Put back MANUAL_PACKAGE_BUILD, I don't see why this suddenly became unnecessary.
88aaf547ac
Steve Price (steve) · as print/a2ps-letter
Sort PLIST and remove a bogon regarding ogonkify.info which doesn't have a dir file entry.

PR:		5840
76f0934c5f
Steve Price (steve) · as print/a2ps-letter
Update to version 4.9.9 and portlint.

PR:		5756
Submitted by:	Brian Handy <handy@lambic.spasci.com>
d296f3088a
Satoshi Asami (asami) · as print/a2ps-letter
Mark a bunch of ports with MANUAL_PACKAGE_BUILD.  With a change to bsd.port.mk that will be committed soon, this will disable automatic package building when PACKAGE_BUILDING is defined (so they can be built from separate scripts).

These are no-ops for ordinary users (i.e., when PACKAGE_BUILDING is
not defined).
f44828dd89
Chuck Robey (chuckr) · as print/a2ps-letter
I'm embarrassed, I'd somehow fixed this on my home machine, and forgot to commit it, and wondered why there were still complaints. Submitted by:	(among others) Brian Handy
e2a34ff3b9
Chuck Robey (chuckr) · as print/a2ps-letter
Major upgrade of a2ps.  The feature that I liked most was the automatic context sensitive font emphasis for software (pretty printing).
1506869809
Satoshi Asami (asami) · as print/a2ps-letter
A4/Letter papersize controlled by PAPERSIZE variable.  Closes PR 1104 and 1106.

Submitted by:	David O'Brien (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)
579fb031a5
Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh) · as print/a2ps-letter
Add CATEGORIES lines to a whole bunch of port Makefiles.  Some ports are in multiple catagories - I'll expect the various MAINTAINERS to make further adjustments (and add any KEYWORDS lines) themselves.
ac3066bf75