Polipo4BSD
polipo FreeBSD port

Polipo is a small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy) designed to be used by one person or a small group of people.

Author: Juliusz Chroboczek
Main web page: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/

This page deals with FreeBSD port specific details only. For documentation, source code and further information go to the polipo main web page.

FreeBSD port

The polipo software compiles on FreeBSD (6.x, 7.x, 8.x, CURRENT) without problems. Only installation requires some BSD specific steps. To simplify the installation further I created this BSD port for polipo. It has the following properties:

uses source code from polipo main web site
installs in /usr/local directory
creates extra user and runs polipo with reduced privileges
installs startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
installs expiry script in /usr/local/etc/periodic
creates entry in /etc/newsyslog.conf to rotate log

The port requires the rc_subr framework and support for it in the port include makefile. That should be present in the 5.x tree and later versions and in newer 4.x versions. Older 4.x versions can compile the port without problems, but you have to write your own start script. For the 4.x versions the documentation (including info) is not installed, because the "makeinfo" is too old to compile the source.

Installation

1. Using FreeBSD ports collection

Update your ports collection (CVSup, CVS, CTM..)
cd /usr/ports/www/polipo
make && make install

2. Using port archive from this site

Download polipo port archive
Create work directory of your choice (e.g. mkdir polipo && cd polipo)
Extract port archive (e.g. tar xvzf polipo-0.9.9-port.tar.gz)
make && make install

3. Use a precompiled binary package

The FreeBSD distribution should contain the package. You can fetch and install the package with pkg_add -r polipo. Information about available versions for different FreeBSD architectures are present on The FreeBSD Ports Monitoring System.

Files / Download

version	FreeBSD port	comment
0.9.7	polipo-0.9.7-port.tar.gz
0.9.8	polipo-0.9.8-port.tar.gz
0.9.8_1	polipo-0.9.8_1-port.tar.gz	fix: Range without partial content
0.9.9	polipo-0.9.9-port.tar.gz
0.9.9_1	polipo-0.9.9_1-port.tar.gz	fix for new local_startup
0.9.10	polipo-0.9.10-port.tar.gz
0.9.11	polipo-0.9.11-port.tar.gz
0.9.12	polipo-0.9.12-port.tar.gz
1.0.0	polipo-1.0.0-port.tar.gz
1.0.1	polipo-1.0.1-port.tar.gz
1.0.2	polipo-1.0.2-port.tar.gz
1.0.3	polipo-1.0.3-port.tar.gz
1.0.4	polipo-1.0.4-port.tar.gz
1.0.4.1	polipo-1.0.4.1-port.tar.gz

Polipo4BSDpolipo FreeBSD port