From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 17:23:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05AD837B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FAFC43E75 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:23:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (9bc9c102fb36093a372fc620aaaaf09a@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g910OBho038654; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:24:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g910O9hi038653; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:24:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:24:08 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Peter Leftwich Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports FAQ is a great read Message-ID: <20021001002408.GD77771@vectors.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Weinberger , Peter Leftwich , questions@freebsd.org References: <20020930183217.R63034-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020930183217.R63034-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> (09.30.2002 @ 1539 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 1.5K: << > One final suggestion for www.freebsd.org - I would like a command similar > to "make search name=xxxxxx" that would attempt to match any package that > can be "pkg_add"'ed from the ports collection. True, searching the ports > yields lots of links, (Description, Sources, Changes, Download, etc) but it > is difficult to figure out what's a port only and what can be pkg_add -r > installed! please examine /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/portsearch, and /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/README.portsearch. > The one thing I haven't learned yet is what "make install clean" does > exactly "make install clean" is the same thing as: make install ; make clean > and why "make" can take different commands in the first place. i have no idea what you mean by that. do you mean why it was designed that way? what libraries and functions allow it to do that? perhaps you'd want to read the make(1) manpage. >> end of "Ports FAQ is a great read" from Peter Leftwich << -Adam -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message