From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 17:55:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from weeble.dyndns.org (ubppp234-120.dialin.buffalo.edu [128.205.234.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C167737C1E4 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:55:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from shithead (shithead.weeble.dyndns.org [10.0.0.2]) by weeble.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA09221; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:54:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Message-ID: <009401bf92d8$76e566c0$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> From: "C J Michaels" To: , References: <38D689BC.A054D156@aspenworks.com> Subject: Re: List of ports and descriptions ? Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:54:47 -0500 Organization: WCC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I can make 3 suggestions. 1. cd /usr/ports ; make readmes That will make Readme.html files in each and every ports dir with links and short descriptions. You then only need to open the readme.html in /usr/ports to work your way down. But if memory serves me, that'll be similar to the list that's provided by http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports 2. There's also the good 'ol index file, which I wouldn't exactly call "human readable", but it does contain all of that information. Maybe you can find a simple way to convert that file into a more usable format. 3. You could just go to the "alphabetical list of all ports" link at the very bottom of http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ it's a list of every single port, with a short description, all on one page. Hope this helps. -Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex" To: Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:27 PM Subject: List of ports and descriptions ? > Hello, > > Just spend 20 minutes searching the freebsd.org site for the old list > of ports and short descriptions. Seems those links have dissappeared. > freebsd.org/ports isn't a clue. > > -clueless To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message