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From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>
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Subject: Re: Bittorrent not in ports?
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 06:38:23PM -0700, Julian M. Mason wrote:
> ...is bittorrent really not in ports?
> 
> my usual 
> # cd /usr/ports ; make search name="bittorrent" 
> and 
> # whereis bittorrent
> 
> turned up nothing; nor did a wandering around /usr/ports/net.
> 
> Do I have to actually go and get something myself? <gasp>

As others have mentioned the location of the bittorrent port I'll skip
that bit - just a note though to say check out the portsearch perl
script which is useful for finding ports:

/usr/ports/Tools/scripts/portsearch -i bittorrent

turns up plenty to go on.


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