Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:24:08 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports FAQ is a great read Message-ID: <20021001002408.GD77771@vectors.cx> In-Reply-To: <20020930183217.R63034-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020930183217.R63034-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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>> (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
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