From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 5: 4:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B8CF37B41B for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 05:04:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b207.otenet.gr [212.205.244.215]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2UD2lQA011178; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:02:51 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2UD3KLO010212; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:03:21 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2UCcgS7009980; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:38:42 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:38:42 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jonathan Arnold Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages and Ports Message-ID: <20020330123841.GA9757@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020329181926.B75496-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <200203291859590787.10C2685F@mail.attbi.com> <15525.9046.907958.653284@guru.mired.org> <200203292329360388.11B93E38@mail.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200203292329360388.11B93E38@mail.attbi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 2002-03-29 23:29, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > >> >To find out which packages are available on the CDROM(s), just mount the cd > >> >drive and cd /-cdrom-mountpoint-/usr/src/...etc > >> Yeah, but I have 14 CDROMS, with 6000+ packages. I think it is lame that > >> they didn't include some kind of master index with them. > >You have 14 CDROMs from three different distribution packages. How > >could they have included a master list for you without knowing which > > Actually, 10 of them come from my "BSD Power Pak 4.4" package that I bought - > the 4 installation disks and 6 toolkit disks. I think at the very least, > the installation disks should have their own master index, and the toolkit > disks should too. You could also write a small shell script that generates an `index' of the cdrom mounted under /cdrom and run it once through the 14 CDROMs. This way a master index will be saved in your disk, and you can use grep/sed/awk or whatever you feel comfortable with, to search the disks :-) Just an idea, Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message