Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 15:24:09 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk> Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new version of "updated" perl script. Message-ID: <1101.817773849@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:37:44 GMT." <jacs-9510302137.AA000119079@hawk.gnome.co.uk>
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> OK, this version is for the people that don't keep their packages clean.
>
> Just running "updated" should give the user a nice clean list of packages
> that s/he has installed but have since been updated.
Actually, I was thinking a little about this just the other day.. :-)
What say you folks about the idea of a "ports" command? It would
probably be a perl script from hell, but it would basically do all the
sorts of cutsie ports related things combined in one utility.
For example, you could do things like:
ports -cat all -grep name:emacs
ports -cat editors -grep maint:jkh
ports -cat all -show "name:\t${name}\ncategories:\t${cats}"
And so on to get information on new ports, extract patch files for
easy mailing, collect ports statistics, etc. ``ports -help'' would
also display useful information about ports, how to create them, etc.
As we think up new functionality, we simply add it to the single ports
command so that it's easy to find. The current `index' targets in
/usr/ports/Makefile hardly seems to do the ports collection justice!
:-(
Jordan
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