Question about fields in INDEX files
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sun May 6 02:03:50 PDT 2007
Mark Linimon wrote:
> The output from each port's "make describe" is documented at the
> "describe" target in:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
>
> This is changed to a different format (a historical bug, too late to fix
> now because of POLA) via "make index" from ports/Makefile by the following
> script (see the "foreach" block at the end):
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Tools/make_index
>
> I will send you portsmon's portsIndexUtils.py file that you can work from
> to figure out this mess. (I don't see any reason to post it to the list).
>
> mcl
Mark,
Thanks for the speedy reply.
Would you happen to know what the Perl module / class is that's used
for storing the pkg objects with? I just want to look at the structure a
bit closer.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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