Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:51:15 -0500 From: Eric <heli@mikestammer.com> To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What happened to ethereal in the ports Message-ID: <464490F3.6050303@mikestammer.com> In-Reply-To: <340a29540705110850l4791dea2y1e59e5bac09a5eee@mail.gmail.com> References: <340a29540705110850l4791dea2y1e59e5bac09a5eee@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi, > > I was needing to do some packet analysis this week (that's what > prompted my question earlier about tcpdump), and in doing so I went to > /usr/ports and did "make search name=ethereal" and was returned 4 > hits. Basically, these hits were for ethereal or ethereal-lite. The > directory was /usr/ports/net/ethereal. I tried to cd to that > directory and nothing. The directory doesn't exist. > > I go to http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html and search for > ethereal, same thing, no hits. Same result after searching through > http://www.freshports.org. So, I remembered being told (from someone > here) to read /usr/ports/UPDATING for questions to be answered about > issues like this. I went to see that file and there was nothing in it > about ethereal. Well, that is, no hits in vim after searching for > "ethereal" or "Ethereal". > > So, long story short, what happened to it? Why was it removed? If it > was because there was no maintainer, that doesn't make any sense since > many of the ports I've found are marked as "no maintainer". Can I > simply download and install and expect it to work? > Look for wireshark. i believe it was in UPDATING
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