Bug 20863
| Summary: | [NEW PORT] Utility for searching the ports tree | ||||||
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| Product: | Ports & Packages | Reporter: | marko <marko> | ||||
| Component: | Individual Port(s) | Assignee: | freebsd-ports (Nobody) <ports> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Description
marko
2000-08-26 15:50:00 UTC
Thus spake marko@FreeBSD.ORG (marko@FreeBSD.ORG): > A utility for searching the ports tree. It allows more > detailed search criteria than ``make search key=<string>'' > and accepts all perl(1) regular expressions Nice! but: > # /usr/ports/sysutils/sp This name is way too short, it should be called portsearch or similar. On the other hand, it could also be imported into the ports Tools dir (my favourite) Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:22:37PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake marko@FreeBSD.ORG (marko@FreeBSD.ORG): > > > A utility for searching the ports tree. It allows more > > detailed search criteria than ``make search key=<string>'' > > and accepts all perl(1) regular expressions > > Nice! > Thanks > but: > > > # /usr/ports/sysutils/sp > > This name is way too short, it should be called portsearch or similar. > I was upholding the fine Unix tradition of brevity and terseness :) > On the other hand, it could also be imported into the ports Tools dir > (my favourite) > Who needs to approve that, asami? > Alex > > -- > cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com Thus spake Mark Ovens (marko@freebsd.org): > Who needs to approve that, asami? Noone, if you put it into the scripts dir. Update the README file as well. Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:51:50PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake Mark Ovens (marko@freebsd.org): > > > Who needs to approve that, asami? > > Noone, if you put it into the scripts dir. > OK, so if I rename it ``portsearch'' and add it to the scripts dir will you approve it? > Update the README file as well. > What should I do with the manpage? ``man sp | col -b > README.portsearch'' and put it in the scripts dir as well? > Alex > > -- > cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com State Changed From-To: open->closed Committed to Tools/scripts instead of as a port at alex's suggestion. |