Sort specific category by added date?

[Matthew Seaman]

Sam Lawrance wrote:
> Scott I. Remick wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way (web-based or command-line) to get a list of all the 
>> ports in
>> a specific category sorted by their added (not modified/updated) date?
>>
>> For example: I want a list of all the games, sorted by those added most
>> recently first.
>>
>> I can't seem to come up with a trick, but then again, I'm not all that
>> skilled (but still learning!)...

> I was going to suggest looking at the "Date created" which is at the top 
> of just about every port Makefile, but there are spelling errors and the 
> format varies a little.
> 
> Something like the following might help. It extracts the date that the 
> first revision of the Makefile was added. You'll need a copy of the 
> ports tree with which you can use 'cvs'. Run it inside a category 
> directory.
> 
> cd /usr/ports/games
> for i in *; do
>    echo -n `cvs log -r1.1 $i/Makefile | grep "date:" | cut -c 7-25`; 
> echo " $i";
> done | sort
> 
> Needs a bit of tweaking, but you get the idea. The output for 'games' is 
> at http://sam.stral.net/freebsd/games-added-date.txt

Or you could look at the Makefile in /usr/ports/games -- specifically 
the output of 'cvs annotate':

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/games/Makefile?annotate=1.732

The 'SUBDIR += portname' lines get basically added when the port is 
first committed, so correlating the Makefile version numbers with the 
date that version was created will give you a pretty good answer.  It's 
not perfect -- for instance if the port was renamed it will give you the 
date that happened -- but it's probably a lot quicker than an exhaustive 
search through the whole CVS history for the category.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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