FreshPorts searching - comments?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:28:53PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:

> > 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.  

You could periodically look on the ftp site and list file modification
times.  A bit messy.

> > 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.  

Look at the SIZE attribute in the distinfo file.

Kris
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