From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 19 12:13:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57EF16A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:13:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from male.aldigital.co.uk (male.thebunker.net [213.129.64.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7925343D5A for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:13:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthew@thebunker.net) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (gateway.ash.thebunker.net [213.129.64.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by male.aldigital.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8613B97756; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:13:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j0JCDogu035330; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:13:50 GMT (envelope-from matthew@gravitas.thebunker.net) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by gravitas.thebunker.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0JCDn1j035329; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:13:49 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:13:49 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: sgnezdov@sergei.homeunix.org Message-ID: <20050119121349.GA844@gravitas.thebunker.net> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , sgnezdov@sergei.homeunix.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ibTvN161/egqYuK8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Browsing ports from console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:13:58 -0000 --ibTvN161/egqYuK8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:26:30AM +0000, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: > I'd like to browse ports from console sometimes. I'd like to use UI > similar to /stand/sysinstall during installation from CD. As far as I know, no one has coded up anything like that -- ie. install from a local ports tree but making the process look like the way sysinstall(8) selects packages to install. =20 > Is there a way to start /stand/sysinstall against /usr/ports directory? No. sysinstall(8) installs pre-compiled packages, not ports. You can use sysinstall to browse the package collection on one of the FTP servers though, but generally most people just use command line tools. Why not try installing portupgrade and have a play around with that? It's really jolly good. Also read the ports(7) man page, especially the bits about 'make fetchindex' and 'make search' > Are there any console ports browsers? % lynx http://www.freshports.org/ Scroll down to near the end of the front page and select the 'Categories' link. Or there's http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html which is similar, but isn't updated so often and doesn't contain as much information. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK --ibTvN161/egqYuK8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBQe5O/Zr7OpndfbmCAQI1tQQAvb7/4xQyWzEwRPo98JUNucZJx5x1vDvD ORU7meeCZyciX2JQj6zsBL6nglmkrdEGrBpNmepzDptlfxUvOg0jk6mODyKaicrI xe5CEYSJcGYO/WYQoFRgBzF1HTb1ZiJozSwakuOoc4nlcOQ8wNjBm6X/N4LUXTXU lpOLVTtnRxM= =jlDJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ibTvN161/egqYuK8--