From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 13:18: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657DB37B403 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:17:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d141-119-162.home.cgocable.net ([24.141.119.162] helo=x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 15uJbd-0002A5-00; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:17:29 -0400 Received: from localhost (genisis@localhost) by x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9IKMWg48247; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:22:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com: genisis owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:22:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-X-Sender: To: Nils Holland Cc: Subject: Re: Index of ports? In-Reply-To: <20011018220936.G3315-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> Message-ID: <20011018162055.C48214-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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