Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 11:16:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: lvirden@cas.org Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help sought on using freebsd.org search facility Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970907111125.12725J-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199709071202.IAA29981@cas.org>
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On Sun, 7 Sep 1997 lvirden@cas.org wrote: > The ultimate goal is for me to be able to determine what applications > and libraries currently distributed for FreeBSD use Tcl or Tk in some > fashion, as well as somehow monitoring updates and new entries. The ports INDEX files (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-current/INDEX) contains exactly what you need. Each port is represented by a line, fields are delimited by colons (:). I don't recall exactly which field it is, but there is a field that lists port dependencies and you just need to check if tcl and/or tk are listed in that field. A small perl script would do the job. Keep in mind that the INDEX file on the ftp site is not updated very often, but if you have a copy of the whole ports collection, you can generate an up-to-date version by typing `make index' in the root directory of the ports tree. (At least I think that is the correct target...) -john
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