Flaws in the ports system?

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:14:56 +0100
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:20:31PM -0400, Parv wrote:
> > in message <435825F8.4020305 at datacomm.ch>,
> > wrote Benjamin Lutz thusly...
> > >
> > > - Searching. Personally, I strongly dislike make search because
> > > its way too verbose. Search results easily fill several
> > > screenfuls, and grepping it is not trivial. I've worked around
> > > this one by creating a tool that writes grep-able sub-indexes to
> > > disk in a more concise format, the tool's available here:
> > >   http://www.maxlor.com/freebsd-scripts.shtml
> > 
> > It seems anybody who does not like "make search" and is able to
> > generate an alternative, does.  I did.  And so did[0] Matthew Seaman
> > by having sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex in the ports system.  From
> > the port's description file ...
> > 
> >   cache-init, cache-update, find-updated and portindex are a set of
> >   perl scripts built around the common core of the
> > FreeBSD::Portindex modules. Their use is to generate and maintain
> > the ports INDEX or INDEX-5 files speedily and efficiently.
> > Ultimately they work in a very similar way to the standard make
> > index command, except that the FreeBSD::Portindex tools keep a
> > cache of the make describe output from each port, and can update
> > that cached data incrementally as the ports tree itself is updated.
> > 
> >   WWW: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/portindex/
> > 
> > 
> > [0] I am not speaking on behalf of Matthew S, but making one
> >     particular point.
> 
> Thank you very much for the vote of confidence.  Mind you,
> p5-FreeBSD-Portindex doesn't do much to solve the OPs complaints about
> 'make search', as it is an alternative to 'make index'. The resulting
> INDEX{,-5,-6} file (which is what 'make search' searches) should be
> pretty much identical whether you run cache-update and portindex or
> you use the standard 'make index'.
> 
> Hmmm.. looks like I need to update that page a bit, seeing as various
> version numbers on there have been superceeded now.  One of these days
> I might even get round to the semi-mythical Version 2.0.

Wow :) If you need any beta-testing, etc. you know where to find me.
I continue to be a big fan of portindex, I usually install it in the
first ten ports on any new system.

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