Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:43:19 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreshPorts - virtual categories Message-ID: <3E6331C7.27773.A96A0E@localhost>
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I have wanted to add virtual categories to add to FreshPorts since shortly after FreshPorts was launched. The implementation of virtual categories has a few interesting challenges, the most perplexing of which is the category description. For non-virtual categories, the pkg/COMMENT file contains the description which FreshPorts can easily obtain and use (e.g. archivers/pkg/COMMENT) For virtual categories, it appears the only source of this information is http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859- 1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-categories.html#PORTING-CATEGORIES Given a virtual category name, what method exists to obtain the category description? cheers -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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