From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 30 4:49:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF88837B401 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 04:49:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from httpd.terions.de (static62-99-146-055.adsl.inode.at [62.99.146.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC0AA43EE1 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 04:49:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martin.klaffenboeck@gmx.at) Received: (qmail 17014 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2002 12:51:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO martin.kleinerdrache.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Nov 2002 12:51:21 -0000 Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 13:51:21 +0100 From: Martin Klaffenboeck To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Categories info? Message-ID: <20021130125121.GG373@martin.kdrache.org> References: <20021130121931.GE373@martin.kdrache.org> <20021130122747.GA16185@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20021130122747.GA16185@raggedclown.net>; from cls@raggedclown.net on Sa, Nov 30, 2002 at 13:27:47 +0100 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.4.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Am 2002.11.30 13:27 schrieb(en) Cliff Sarginson: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:19:31PM +0100, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I can find Information about a category when I'm looking into the > > ${PORTSDIR}/category/pkg/COMMENT file. > > > > But there are several categories which dont have a own directory > (like > > gnome, afterstep, perl, zend, ...) > > Is there anywhere a Information about them stored on my system? > > > Yes in the packages database will be entries for all packages, when > you > install a port it becomes effectively a package. > pkg_info(1) will list what you have installed. At this way, I can just find Information about stored Packages, and which category it belongs to. But this Information is also stored in the INDEX file and again in the Makefile. What I want to get is a description for the categories. I'll paste it here now from http://www.freebsd.org/ports: (or a few of them) # Afterstep (31) -- Ports to support the AfterStep window manager. # Archivers (64) -- Utilities for archiving and unarchiving data. # Astro (60) -- Applications related to astronomy. # ... # Elisp (168) -- Things related to Emacs Lisp. # .... # Gnome (287) -- Components of the Gnome Desktop environment. # Graphics (502) -- Graphics libraries and utilities. And so on. You can see now, there are more Categories than directories in the ports system. You cannot find any ${PORTSDIR}/afterstep, ${PORTSDIR}/elisp or ${PORTSDIR}/gnome directories. The information for archivers, astro and graphics (in this example) are stored in ${PORTSDIR}/archivers/pkg/COMMENT, ${PORTSDIR}/astro/pkg/COMMENT and ${PORTSDIR}/archivers/pkg/COMMENT. But you cannot find such a file like ${PORTSDIR}/gnome/pkg/COMMENT. This files don't exist. So my question is: Where is this file (or information) for categories which don't own a directory? > You can also in your ports directory do a "make readmes", this will > create a set of html files for each port. This is not a good Idea. My programm should be usable for other FreeBSD users, I don't want them all to make the readmes just for getting out this (not very important, but beautiful short) description for the categories. Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message