From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 5 01:25:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F3216A418 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 01:25:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu (mxout5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AADD13C457 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 01:25:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout5.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.09) with ESMTP id lB51Pj5g022690 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:25:45 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from dzihan.cs.washington.edu (dzihan.cs.washington.edu [128.208.4.96]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.09) with ESMTP id lB51PiaG012072 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:25:45 -0800 Message-ID: <4755FE18.3010509@u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:25:44 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071003) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Leidinger References: <81C6A2BD-78DA-4806-8145-88E4F9B8D5B1@mathematik.uni-marburg.de> <86tzmzvrqb.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> <20071203205317.5yetpsh8gw8co4wk@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20071203205317.5yetpsh8gw8co4wk@webmail.leidinger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.3.310218, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.2.313940, Antispam-Data: 2007.12.4.170822 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __STOCK_PHRASE_7 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Cc: "Denise H. G." , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Matthias Schmidt Subject: Re: Announcing pkg_search X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:25:46 -0000 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting "Denise H. G." (from Mon, 03 Dec 2007 > 21:21:32 +0800): > >> Matthias Schmidt writes: >> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I am not really sure if this is the appropriate list ... if its not, >>> please redirect me to the right one. >>> >>> I wrote a small script called pkg_search to help me searching my local >>> ports tree for a port/package without using "make search name=" or >>> something like freshports.org. Its not a big deal, but it eases my >>> daily pkg_add life a bit :) >> >> Hi >> >> I am also interested in `pkg_install' tools. A couple of weeks ago I >> planned to rewrite the `pkg_install' tools from scratch. And first of > > I hope you are aware of the Google Summer of Code 2007 project with > the goal to improve the pkg_* stuff... > > http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/soc2007/revised%5ffbsd%5fpkgtools&HIDEDEL=YES > > > Bye, > Alexander. > Yes, I know that I'm slow in this regard but I was much busier this summer compared to what I originally expected. I started work on it again, but I need to get through finals and some final projects first before fully dedicating more time to revising pkg_install (last quarter of school). All of my work that I'm continuing on (somewhat jumbled up right now), exists within v2 under the depot page that Alexander provided above.. libpkg is much better design-wise than the current pkg_install implementation.. -Garrett