Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:38:42 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages and Ports Message-ID: <20020330123841.GA9757@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <200203292329360388.11B93E38@mail.attbi.com> References: <20020329181926.B75496-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <200203291859590787.10C2685F@mail.attbi.com> <15525.9046.907958.653284@guru.mired.org> <200203292329360388.11B93E38@mail.attbi.com>
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On 2002-03-29 23:29, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> >> >To find out which packages are available on the CDROM(s), just mount the cd
> >> >drive and cd /-cdrom-mountpoint-/usr/src/...etc
> >> Yeah, but I have 14 CDROMS, with 6000+ packages. I think it is lame that
> >> they didn't include some kind of master index with them.
> >You have 14 CDROMs from three different distribution packages. How
> >could they have included a master list for you without knowing which
>
> Actually, 10 of them come from my "BSD Power Pak 4.4" package that I bought -
> the 4 installation disks and 6 toolkit disks. I think at the very least,
> the installation disks should have their own master index, and the toolkit
> disks should too.
You could also write a small shell script that generates an `index' of the
cdrom mounted under /cdrom and run it once through the 14 CDROMs. This way
a master index will be saved in your disk, and you can use grep/sed/awk or
whatever you feel comfortable with, to search the disks :-)
Just an idea,
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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