Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:21:19 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: New /bin/sh based script to manage ports Message-ID: <43BCF31F.8050900@FreeBSD.org>
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Howdy, I've been working on a new script to manage ports. I've put up a web page about it at http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/portmaster.html From that page: Does the world really need one more port management tool? Well I'm not sure about the world, but I do know that none of the existing options worked for me, for a variety of reasons. The two biggest being that I do not want to have to install yet another language, and I do not want the overhead of a database to manage the information about what ports I have installed, etc. The goals I started with for this project were to use /bin/sh so that nothing else would have to be installed for it to work, and to make use of the existing data in /var/db/pkg. I now have something that meets those goals, and does everything I want it to do, so I'm interested in sharing it with the community. More information, and a link to download the script are on the page. Comments welcome, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection
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