Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:42:25 +0800 From: Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New /bin/sh based script to manage ports Message-ID: <c21e92e20601050342s69102506i7ad015819edf05a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43BCF31F.8050900@FreeBSD.org> References: <43BCF31F.8050900@FreeBSD.org>
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On 1/5/06, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Does the world really need one more port management tool? Well I'm not su=
re
> about the world, but I do know that none of the existing options worked f=
or
> 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 o=
f
> 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
I think sysutils/portmanager already fullfills your criteria. It's
written in C and it makes use of the current infrastructure (no dbs
involved).
Jiawei Ye
--
"Without the userland, the kernel is useless."
--inspired by The Tao of Programming
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