Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 13:51:21 +0100 From: Martin Klaffenboeck <martin.klaffenboeck@gmx.at> To: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Categories info? Message-ID: <20021130125121.GG373@martin.kdrache.org> In-Reply-To: <20021130122747.GA16185@raggedclown.net>; from cls@raggedclown.net on Sa, Nov 30, 2002 at 13:27:47 %2B0100 References: <20021130121931.GE373@martin.kdrache.org> <20021130122747.GA16185@raggedclown.net>
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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
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