Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:21:15 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [BRAINSTORMING] simplifying maintainer's life Message-ID: <540804DB.5030600@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20140904060011.GB1044@medusa.sysfault.org> References: <20140903082538.GE63085@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20140903145614.158f8e89@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <20140903135029.GK63085@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20140903165622.3bff54e0@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <20140903150018.GL63085@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <5407649A.80500@FreeBSD.org> <20140903191256.GB1025@medusa.sysfault.org> <20140903212243.GK63931@graf.pompo.net> <20140904060011.GB1044@medusa.sysfault.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --2GkqoOU0qvWNEAXnRkswWhfUHnxlDWLeo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04/09/2014 07:00, Marcus von Appen wrote: >> - I often grep all plists to find which port could possibly provide su= ch >> > header or such library (among non-installed ports, of course). > I do the same, but would argue that such a query service should belong = to or > offered by a pkg search (as sort of counterpart to pkg which). We've toyed with that idea -- allowing 'pkg search' or similar to search on any file in any package known in the repositories. The biggest problem is that including all that data in the package catalogues would bloat their size by a very large amount. Rather than bloating the catalogues for any use, there was a separate index of files. Not sure whether that's being routinely built on the FreeBSD pkg cluster at the moment -- probably not, as it was only ever experimental, and didn't have any generally available consumers. In many ways, I'd prefer to have this sort of functionality available as a web-app, thus saving users the necessity of downloading megabytes of data about ports / packages they would never use or care about. Needs someone to step up and write that application though. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --2GkqoOU0qvWNEAXnRkswWhfUHnxlDWLeo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin) iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJUCATdXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2NTNBNjhCOTEzQTRFNkNGM0UxRTEzMjZC QjIzQUY1MThFMUE0MDEzAAoJELsjr1GOGkATgisP/2GBG+QDIRwpfX0IdnX6hJsC 214VWULXha1vucPOgZlBit6OlH6OxQ9iNrxLUoKjlGdHAK+lQM6mYvk0PoRi80ft XME/tK5+xO24dIhcrC2dfAmEy0UPrvUbVA1HbMYyuG/WrpyM57cr8noLP41yfQdi O+xO34hnns9SUqicXuj2/W6k04gqw/qg9/M392i2K70yVmA8EMu+gilJKZou73c8 lGY9w0N0i0YXW2Tawd6nlgIQ6q1g0Xz1zcp0bJcPeIVKmkrU5RjTjEroW7gRlAVX 2adfIwYIP+nj0YtX7tyKXg7UcLKxrqUsZmuHAEVMKvv9Utxf727CpTZwN9k29oCz krkbk4V8oglvLzWahg6h/0DHI6nC5K4E8uDdkJJcqMEy6sIsfmFFqRVlhzanhJXb LRk1lagO3YYUDp0mqUzAMhQHmHpK7eC02pKY8bLNMTHZ3CNbFIYJBLDIf8K8av+A YDrsirj3ilENNa+DdSSqYb0OqNFcVxEoiC7cvjbqrnz3wos5AcLiGLj6Ji6j0Fhq 7HmKCJ/WPwr3lgmsMJZDrSlpaL1xamdzkeQcHBRqxKsHtaNEr6sSJjlpEOAP2dIA YjxMysOvvkfu2tpp4TP0x/Q8IpRmC4Ot1NYwAtpeUCxOIiA5VWBxTda0sENYZdaF eh+0/kK22kJp8vMrMCxR =Dir5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2GkqoOU0qvWNEAXnRkswWhfUHnxlDWLeo--
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