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From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Question about fields in INDEX files
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Mark Linimon wrote:
> The output from each port's "make describe" is documented at the
> "describe" target in:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
> 
> This is changed to a different format (a historical bug, too late to fix
> now because of POLA) via "make index" from ports/Makefile by the following
> script (see the "foreach" block at the end):
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Tools/make_index
> 
> I will send you portsmon's portsIndexUtils.py file that you can work from
> to figure out this mess.  (I don't see any reason to post it to the list).
> 
> mcl

Mark,
	Thanks for the speedy reply.
	Would you happen to know what the Perl module / class is that's used
for storing the pkg objects with? I just want to look at the structure a
bit closer.
Thanks,
-Garrett