FreshPorts searching - comments?

[Dan Langille]

On 17 Nov 2004 at 17:59, Jie Gao wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:46:04 -0500, Dan Langille <dan at langille.org> wrote:
> > I'm in the process of adding the ability to search by package name
> > and by latest link.
> > 
> > Is there anything else that would be useful for searching?
> > 
> > What about: depends build? depends run? depends lib?

> Those shoudl definitely be useful.
> 
> Additionally, how about searching:
> 
> 1. ports changed after a given date

Does this help? http://www.freshports.org/date.php

> 2. ports with up-to-date packages on FreeBSD's ftp server

Heh, give me a formula!  I know of no way to extract that information 
easily.  

> 3. ports with distfile size greater than a given number

Why would that be useful?  If you can figure out a way for me to 
obtain that information without fetching each distfile, great.  A 
shell or perl script would be great.  


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