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Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html 
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 18:01:13 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> This is something I want very much, in addition to recently
> changed/updated ports.  Unfortunately, the current mechanism for
> generating the ports pages doesn't easily lend itself to such
> features.  I have a little perl program that reads the ports
> INDEX file and spits out HTML, but the INDEX file contains no

Hmmm.  This seems like one of those problems which might be better
served through a cron job.  Why not simply cache the previous day's
and previous week's INDEX files, doing a running diff each day which
generates the HTML?

					Jordan