Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:35:40 -0500 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: anselmg@t-online.de (Anselm Garbe), freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsman - need feedback and testers Message-ID: <200303021435.40661.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <20030122201126.GA250@wotan.garbe> References: <20030122201126.GA250@wotan.garbe>
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On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:11 pm, Anselm Garbe wrote: > a while ago I asked on this list, if someone knows an curses based > frontend for the FreeBSD ports collection, which behaves like a package > manager (e.g. dselect under Debian), but I got only responds, that this > does not yet exist. > > So I invested much time in the last 7 weeks to develop such a tool. Its > name is portsman (= ports manager) und you'll find it under: > > http://portsman.berlios.de (homepage) > http://developer.berlios.de/projects/portsman/ (developer page) > > Today I released the first rc of upcoming portsman 0.2, you can download > the package under: > > http://download.berlios.de/portsman/portsman-0.2-rc1.tar.gz > > Currently I have not much feedback about it, so it'd be great if you > could try it and give me feedback. :-) Hi, i just saw this email today. I tried version .2 I couldn't follow the cvs instructions on your website. It looks pretty cool. a couple issues: - I don't see any kind of cursor to let me know what line I am on to select a given category or port. So I can only tell by counting, or guessing and trying. An ascii cursor letting me know what line i am on would be great-. - The man page does not say by what method portsman proposes to use to upgrade a port. portupgrade seems like the current best way to do it, to manage the dependencies properly. - The help page is good, but maybe a context relevant list of commands put in one or two lines at the top or bottom of the screen would help. -The ports description shows only about 48 characters with no apparent way to see the whole description. -It does not see some of the ports/pkgs I have installed and mark them properly as already installed. This happened with Xchat2 Probably the best way to get this into the project is to create a port out of it. See the porters handbook at freebsd.org for how to do that. Then discuss this a bit more at ports@freebsd.org mailing list. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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