From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 11 15:51:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80AA16A403 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 15:51:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A94CA13C465 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 15:51:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 51860 invoked from network); 11 May 2007 15:51:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@70.131.134.49 with login) by smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 May 2007 15:51:18 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: hF0ci7UVM1miJPyl7zVvBVXJfx3LrNB.7gDHVJtEBdBmrdKKulvx5d0QY2vEwbxZp5jlvr20Y9F4dDUsOnmFcWsq6iPHaIsOhTUo5Bu9TGTcgCZdX08- Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13611B896; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:51:17 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from mail.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZrWC0MvjmO4A; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:51:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 360BDB88B; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:51:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <464490F3.6050303@mikestammer.com> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:51:15 -0500 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Falanga References: <340a29540705110850l4791dea2y1e59e5bac09a5eee@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <340a29540705110850l4791dea2y1e59e5bac09a5eee@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: What happened to ethereal in the ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:51:20 -0000 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