Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:22:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Index of ports? Message-ID: <20011018162055.C48214-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20011018220936.G3315-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net>
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Nils Holland wrote: > Hi folks, > > well, is there an easy way to get a kind of "index" of the ports > collection? I know that all ports can be browsed on the FreeBSD website, > but I'd rather have some kind of local list here that I can browse. The > list should contain an entry for each port, along with the one-line > describtion what it does. > > I thought that in the past something like that existed within the ports > tree (i.e. I think there was a kind of HTML file in for each port category > listing all the ports and their function). Right now, however, I'm not > able to find such an index on my machine - although I'm sure that it once > was there... > > Any ideas how I can easily (and locally) get an overwiev of all the ports > in the collection? Hi Nils, Don't know if it helps or not, but Annelise Anderson mentioned a handy script she uses. Do a search for "getdescr" in the archives to find it. Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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