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Subject: Updated Ports Web pages?
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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John: what do you think about this?

Gene: thanks for your suggestion, we actually DO already have an
automated program to update the web page.  It is run at 4am freefall
time every night.

The only downside of this is that it munches off the latest
ports/INDEX file, and a new version of that file has to be committed
(usually by me).  But I think the web page is always pretty
up-to-date.

Satoshi
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From: gwh@spiders.com (Gene W Homicki)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 10:37:00 -0400
To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Updated Ports Web pages?

Hi everyone,

	I'm new to this list, so if any of this has been covered
recently, please let me apologize in advance.

After porting a few apps myself to FreeBSD because I (stupidly) only
checked the Web pages and not the FTP site directly for FreeBSD ports,
I got fed up and whipped up a quick script to generate the Ports pages
dynamically from a ports distribution.  You can find an example of
this at:

	http://www.spiders.com/cgi-bin/ports

This script currently does not handle the "cross-reference" pages like
"documentation", but the big plus is that it can always be up to date
if it can be run on a mirror of the ports directory (or ideally on the
main distribution on ftp.freebsd.org/wcarchive.cdrom.com).

Again, if something like this is already in the works (and includes
the cross reference pages), all the better.  If not, I'll finish
cleaning up the code, make sure there are no CGI-related security
problems, and make it available for ftp to whichever of the mirrors
wants it. 

Lastly, if anyone has any feedback on addinging functionality, I'm
open to suggestions as well.  Thanks!


						--Gene


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