From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 9: 8:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB79A37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:08:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442FF43E75 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:08:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA09784; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:08:31 -0700 Message-ID: <3DB577FE.3060702@owt.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:08:30 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew MacClary Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Number of Ports / Packages References: <20021022085842.A3315@crees.no-ip.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew MacClary wrote: > Can you tell me how many ports and how many packages are known to > exist for FreeBSD? Thanks -Matt > A cvsup of ports-all and a "portsdb -uU" produce the following [Updating the portsdb in /usr/ports ... - 7705 port entries found There are some ports that may not make packages because they haven't been touched for a while. If you follow freebsd-ports, you will see a report from "bento" on ports that won't build. The actual number of working ports fluctuates a little bit. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message