It seems that the port does not build and package the notification-server and fileserver components of seafile-server. Notification-server is needed for notifying clients about changed files and file locks. By default the clients poll the server. The notification-server implements a websocket connection. Fileserver is an alternative fileserver that might bring some improvements. Both components can be build with go in the following way: .for pkg in fileserver notification-server cd ${WRKSRC}/${pkg} && go build . .endfor I am not familiar with the package system of BSD - so I was not able to successfully modify the Makefile.