Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:40:27 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Marin Atanasov <dnaeon@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My interactive version of pkg_add - finished! Message-ID: <48E38BDB.1060609@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <48E37A48.8030103@gmail.com> References: <48E37A48.8030103@gmail.com>
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Marin Atanasov wrote: > Hi, again! :) > > I've finished the new version of the program. I decided to name it `sit' > - Simple Interactive Tool > > `sit' now supports the following: > -- improved code for dynamic memory allocation > -- local package pattern search > -- remote (ftp) package pattern search > -- command line arguments to specify a local or remote installation > -- uses some env variables like PACKAGEROOT, OSRELEASE and MACHTYPE to > determite which package and from where to be installed > > The remote/ftp package pattern search is done by searching the INDEX > file for a pattern and extracting the needed information from it. The > program uses a default values for these environment variables if they > have not been set: > > -- PACKAGEROOT = ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ > -- MACHTYPE = i386 > -- OSRELEASE = 8-current > > It doesn't have any requirements, so it should build and run on any > system that has fetch and pkg_add support. > > Screenshots of various usage of the program can be found in here: > http://unix-heaven.org/doc/sit/screenshots/ > > And the code is here: > http://unix-heaven.org/doc/sit/sit-0.2.5.tar.gz > > Well, I hope someone finds it useful :) > > P.S: If someone have any suggestions on how to improve it more - let me > know :) It seems useful. I have one suggestion - make it as port and submit PR for adding it in to ports tree, so it will get wider audience :) Miroslav Lachman
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