Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:15:53 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new function available on portsmon.firepipe.net Message-ID: <20040318191553.GA22898@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403181249050.16303-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403181249050.16303-100000@pancho>
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--45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:59:34PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > I have a beta version of a ports dependency tree browser available > for testing at http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portdependencytree.py. >=20 > Enter a category and portname to see a (low-tech :-) ) rendition > of the dependency tree for the port. Each dependency is shown as > a link that takes you to the overall description page for the port. > (However, the link is only shown once for each dependency, at the > level closest to the root, for clarity). >=20 > This is similar to pkg_tree, but works from the entire ports > hierarchy, not from just the currently installed set. And, it > bypasses /usr/ports/INDEX and instead iterates over 'make depend'. > This means it's much slower, but since the tree is cvsupped once > an hour, it will also be much more accurate. This is cool! > Asking for dependency trees for multiple ports will be too slow > to be useable, so bear that in mind when you enter a category > and portname: both fields use wildcard matching. It might be nice to refuse to show inexact matches without explicit wildcards (for exmaple x11/kde tries to show quite a few ports). -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWfVmXY6L6fI4GtQRAm04AJ4gdydzGuYvZe9UWzyX5FMT6EyJAACfSc6C TPzqdXKtk06gAJIlzIwdyc8= =VFuQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq--
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