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Port details

textproc/chkascii 2.4_1

Check an ASCII text file for invalid characters

Port info

Maintainer
bourne.identity@hotmail.com
Packages
latest: 2.4_1
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 2.4_1 · 7074d7f6ae
Quarterly
2026Q4: 2.4_1
WWW
https://github.com/bourne-again/chkascii
Links
cgit · VuXML

Install

Package
# pkg install chkascii
installs 2.4_1 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 2.4_1
Port
# cd /usr/ports/textproc/chkascii && make install clean
Size
10 KiB download · 20 KiB installed
Depends on
nothing
License
BSD2CLAUSE

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 162.4_12.4_1–
FreeBSD 152.4_12.4_1–
FreeBSD 142.4_12.4_12.4_1

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 152.4_12.4_1–
FreeBSD 142.4_12.4_12.4_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 2.4_1.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

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

None.

Commits (16)

Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 2.4_1
MANPREFIX: eliminate usage of MANPREFIX

While here move some manpages to share/man
7074d7f6ae
Stefan Eßer (se) · 2.4
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles

Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.

This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)
fb16dfecae
Stefan Eßer (se) · 2.4
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles

It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.

Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.

There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.

This commit implements such a proposal and moves one of the WWW: entries
of each pkg-descr file into the respective port's Makefile. A heuristic
attempts to identify the most relevant URL in case there is more than
one WWW: entry in some pkg-descr file. URLs that are not moved into the
Makefile are prefixed with "See also:" instead of "WWW:" in the pkg-descr
files in order to preserve them.

There are 1256 ports that had no WWW: entries in pkg-descr files. These
ports will not be touched in this commit.

The portlint port has been adjusted to expect a WWW entry in each port
Makefile, and to flag any remaining "WWW:" lines in pkg-descr files as
deprecated.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)
b7f05445c0
Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 2.4
One more small cleanup, forgotten yesterday. Reported by:	lwhsu
cf118ccf87
Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 2.4
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
305f148f48
Fernando Apesteguía (fernape) · 2.4
textproc/chkascii : update to 2.4

PR:	251155
Submitted by:	bourne.identity@hotmail.com (maintainer)
44545431c2
Li-Wen Hsu (lwhsu) · 2.3
textproc/chkascii: Update to version 2.3

PR:		249266
Submitted by:	bourne.identity@hotmail.com (maintainer)
1091ab6d9a
Li-Wen Hsu (lwhsu) · 2.2
textproc/chkascii: Update to 2.2

PR:		248750
Submitted by:	bourne.identity@hotmail.com (maintainer)
747ae032ca
Li-Wen Hsu (lwhsu) · 2.1
Update to 2.1

PR:		248578
Submitted by:	bourne.identity@hotmail.com (maintainer)
c680c35c06
Fernando Apesteguía (fernape) · 2.0
textproc/chkascii : update to 2.0

PR:	246110
Submitted by:	bourne.identity@hotmail.com (maintainer)
ef579a9483
Danilo G. Baio (dbaio) · 1.7
textproc/chkascii: Update to 1.7

PR:		243573
Submitted by:	 bourne.identity@hotmail.com (maintainer)
8ec7a8a3a6
Steve Wills (swills) · 1.6
textproc/chkascii: update to version 1.6

PR:		239398
Submitted by:	bourne.identity@hotmail.com (maintainer)
eb8276ea1b
Steve Wills (swills) · 1.4
textproc/chkascii: update to version 1.4

PR:		235332
Submitted by:	bourne.identity@hotmail.com (maintainer)
602f0e51b1
Steve Wills (swills) · 1.3
textproc/chkascii: update to version 1.3

PR:		234911
Submitted by:	bourne.identity@hotmail.com (maintainer)
e89daa3d99
Mateusz Piotrowski (0mp) · 1.2
textproc/chkascii: Update to 1.2

PR:		233370
Submitted by:	bourne.identity@hotmail.com (maintainer)
Approved by:	krion (mentor)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18524
8865750a3e
Mateusz Piotrowski (0mp) · 1.0
New port: textproc/chkascii: Check an ASCII text file for invalid characters

chkascii is a small C program that checks files for any ASCII values
that are possibly junk. The following are considered the only good ASCII
values permissible in a text file: 32-126, 9, 10

The user can optionally force additional ASCII values to be treated as
good.

For good text files, chkascii will wind up by checking on proper EOL
termination. If the file is not EOL-terminated, that too is reported as
an error.

WWW: https://github.com/bourne-again/chkascii

PR:		233254
Submitted by:	bourne.identity@hotmail.com
Reviewed by:	krion
Approved by:	krion (mentor)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18047
bcd04fb32a