From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 9:19:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 884B937B400 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:19:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E425D0A; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:19:11 -0800 (PST) To: "Dan Trainor" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports browser In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:19:59 MST." <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:19:11 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020122171911.67E425D0A@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Dan Trainor" > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:19:59 -0700 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Anyone know of an ncurses-based program or something that will let me > browse my ports tree, and read me pkg-comment, pkg-descr, and plg-plist? > I'd just like a more orderly way of browsing the list, and I don't feel > like: cd port1; cat pkg*; (read for a while, ok) cd ..; cd port1; .... > etc etc. With over what was it, 1600 ports I believe, that becomes a > pretty boring task. The "right" way would be to use pib, but the port needs updating to the new ports structure and I don't know when that might happen. (I really don't have the time to do it myself, especially since it is written in Tk, a language which I have not used in years.) The "official" way is to cd to someplace in the ports tree and "make readmes". You can do this at /usr/ports, but it will take a while! Once complete, you the HTML browser of your choice to look around starting at README.html in the directory you did the "make" in. Note that readmes must be re-made when a port is updated or added so you might want to do this again after a cvsup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message