Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 02:03:53 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Question about fields in INDEX files Message-ID: <463D99F9.9010609@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070506080054.GA20738@soaustin.net> References: <463D87E7.9080903@u.washington.edu> <20070506080054.GA20738@soaustin.net>
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Mark Linimon wrote: > The output from each port's "make describe" is documented at the > "describe" target in: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk > > This is changed to a different format (a historical bug, too late to fix > now because of POLA) via "make index" from ports/Makefile by the following > script (see the "foreach" block at the end): > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Tools/make_index > > I will send you portsmon's portsIndexUtils.py file that you can work from > to figure out this mess. (I don't see any reason to post it to the list). > > mcl Mark, Thanks for the speedy reply. Would you happen to know what the Perl module / class is that's used for storing the pkg objects with? I just want to look at the structure a bit closer. Thanks, -Garrett
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