From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 10:21:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00D816A41F for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:21:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mail2.fluidhosting.com [204.14.90.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 321BA43D48 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:21:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 88359 invoked by uid 399); 5 Jan 2006 10:21:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Jan 2006 10:21:21 -0000 Message-ID: <43BCF31F.8050900@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:21:19 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd ports Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: New /bin/sh based script to manage ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:21:24 -0000 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