Portscout is an automated distfile check utility for the FreeBSD Ports Collection, described in detail in Section 16.5, “Portscout: the FreeBSD Ports Distfile Scanner”.
PORTSCOUT defines special
      conditions within which the Portscout
      distfile scanner is restricted.
Situations where PORTSCOUT
      is set include:
When distfiles have to be ignored, whether for specific
	  versions, or specific minor revisions.  For example, to
	  exclude version 8.2 from distfile
	  version checks because it is known to be broken, add:
PORTSCOUT= ignore:8.2
When specific versions or specific major and minor
	  revisions of a distfile must be checked.  For example, if
	  only version 0.6.4 must be
	  monitored because newer versions have compatibility issues
	  with FreeBSD, add:
PORTSCOUT= limit:^0\.6\.4
When URLs listing the available versions differ from the download URLs. For example, to limit distfile version checks to the download page for the databases/pgtune port, add:
PORTSCOUT= site:http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000416
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