Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:14:41 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: saving a few ports from death Message-ID: <20110427091441.GA50124@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110426225556.GF38579@comcast.net> References: <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> <20110426024122.GA38579@comcast.net> <A9C17565-97D8-43F1-9CF7-8CFC79EFEA7B@FreeBSD.org> <20110426163424.GB38579@comcast.net> <20110426141209.0d07bccf@seibercom.net> <20110426184315.GA2320@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <19895.13977.553973.609431@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4DB73EFD.1070502@FreeBSD.org> <20110426181554.6ddd9393@seibercom.net> <20110426225556.GF38579@comcast.net>
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 03:55:56PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote:
>
> My search for "popularity" metrics is intended to point me, as a
> maintainer, to ports I might want to adopt now, rather than wait for
> someone to complain about them. Everything *I* use is already
> maintained, so I've moved on to looking for things other people might
> need. But I don't want to waste my time on something that nobody uses.
> :)
Interesting..
I used this sh(1) script to find
unmaintained ports that I use.
(I couldn't find a way to do the
job with the existing tools like
pkg_info or portmaster):
#!/bin/sh
prefix=/usr/ports/
makefile=/Makefile
for file in `pkg_info -oxa | grep "/"`
do
yes=`grep MAIN ${prefix}${file}${makefile} | grep ports`
if [ -n "$yes" ]
then
echo $file
fi
done
I got:
print/libpaper
graphics/libwmf
print/mgv
x11-toolkits/open-motif
devel/t1lib
print/transfig
textproc/urlview
graphics/xfig
all of which I use daily,
either directly of via
dependencies (xpdf or
ImageMagick). So if you have
the time and determination,
I'd be extremely grateful
if you decide to take up
the maintainership of
either of these ports.
Many thanks
Anton
--
Anton Shterenlikht
Room 2.6, Queen's Building
Mech Eng Dept
Bristol University
University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944
Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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