Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:08:30 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Matthew MacClary <macclary@crees.no-ip.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Number of Ports / Packages Message-ID: <3DB577FE.3060702@owt.com> References: <20021022085842.A3315@crees.no-ip.org>
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Matthew MacClary wrote: > Can you tell me how many ports and how many packages are known to > exist for FreeBSD? Thanks -Matt > A cvsup of ports-all and a "portsdb -uU" produce the following [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 7705 port entries found There are some ports that may not make packages because they haven't been touched for a while. If you follow freebsd-ports, you will see a report from "bento" on ports that won't build. The actual number of working ports fluctuates a little bit. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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