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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:32:00 -0700
From:      Brian Sobolak <sobolak@mindspring.com>
To:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Index of ports?
Message-ID:  <4642091434.20011018133200@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011018220936.G3315-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net>
References:  <20011018220936.G3315-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net>

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Hello Nils,

Thursday, October 18, 2001, 1:13:20 PM, you wrote:

NH> Hi folks,

NH> well, is there an easy way to get a kind of "index" of the ports
NH> collection? I know that all ports can be browsed on the FreeBSD website,
NH> but I'd rather have some kind of local list here that I can browse. The
NH> list should contain an entry for each port, along with the one-line
NH> describtion what it does.

NH> I thought that in the past something like that existed within the ports
NH> tree (i.e. I think there was a kind of HTML file in for each port category
NH> listing all the ports and their function). Right now, however, I'm not
NH> able to find such an index on my machine - although I'm sure that it once
NH> was there...

NH> Any ideas how I can easily (and locally) get an overwiev of all the ports
NH> in the collection?

/usr/ports/INDEX on my system....

-- 
Best regards,
 Brian                            mailto:sobolak@mindspring.com



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