From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 11:42:49 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 69AB816A420 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:42:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leafy7382@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC3743DA8 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:42:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leafy7382@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i24so1785623wra for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:42:26 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=D27a3GT2VvLVfO0HkQQMNVASVT8WodWWEvr5OBC+UcC9d1x+lj9QTL9ii+w6iFN2DnPCPk0sxpZmNER58nzx8f5KbxPnA8fxzKa2mwmcNkLUxduA8qr+nJQ2IMyD3xFidtKvgs1XfxaJAVnsu0uMgvP8jLSOTxRHEL20MsLkaR0= Received: by 10.65.115.10 with SMTP id s10mr1190632qbm; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:42:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.110.4 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 03:42:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:42:25 +0800 From: Jiawei Ye To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: <43BCF31F.8050900@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43BCF31F.8050900@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd ports Subject: Re: 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 11:42:49 -0000 On 1/5/06, Doug Barton 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