From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jan 17 11:25:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from lunatic.oneinsane.net (lunatic.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C81E151A0 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:25:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net) Received: by lunatic.oneinsane.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B22D81AC; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:25:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:25:12 -0800 From: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Will Andrews , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/16147: New Awhois Port Message-ID: <20000117112512.B15691@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Reply-To: Ron Rosson References: <20000116180054.A73483@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <20000117174256.B65852@florence.pavilion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000117174256.B65852@florence.pavilion.net>; from joe@pavilion.net on Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 05:42:56PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD lunatic.oneinsane.net 3.4-STABLE X-Moon: The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (84% of Full) X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-Disclaimer: I am a firm believer in RTFM X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net X-PGP-KEY: http://www.oneinsane.net/~insane/insane2-pgp5i.txt X-Uptime: 11:20AM up 16:17, 2 users, load averages: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Have you taken a look at what is in here to see what is missing. I guess what I am looking for is to see them do the same thing. But the problem if it is contained in the base is if something else changes with any of the whois databases you know have to manually make it. Where as with the port you do a make && make deinstall && make reinstalll and now have the updated functionality. Just thinking out loud On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Josef Karthauser was heard blurting out: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 10:55:03PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > On 17-Jan-00 Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > > > It is missing the NIC Handle look ups. The arin stuff is kinda not all > > > there. > > > > > > Sorry I like awhois. > > > > I'm sure that the whois(1) in the main source tree can be modified to take on > > these "features" that awhois/bw/others have been offering. Some might view this > > as "bloat", however, so if that is true, then there is no reason to deny > > awhois/etc. their place in the Ports Collection. > > Lemme know what you'd like in our version and I'll add it when I get > a moment. Lots of people make use on a day2day basis of the stock whois > client. It should be as useful as possible, without having to resort to > installing additional ports. (BTW I'm the original author of the ripewhois > port). > > Joe > -- > Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how > Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) > Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() ------------------------------------------------------------------- Science is the game we play with God to find out what His rules are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message