Browsing ports from console

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:26:30AM +0000, Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
> I'd like to browse ports from console sometimes.  I'd like to use UI
> similar to /stand/sysinstall during installation from CD.

As far as I know, no one has coded up anything like that --
ie. install from a local ports tree but making the process look like
the way sysinstall(8) selects packages to install.
 
> Is there a way to start /stand/sysinstall against /usr/ports directory?

No.  sysinstall(8) installs pre-compiled packages, not ports.  You can
use sysinstall to browse the package collection on one of the FTP
servers though, but generally most people just use command line tools.
Why not try installing portupgrade and have a play around with that?
It's really jolly good.  Also read the ports(7) man page, especially
the bits about 'make fetchindex' and 'make search'

> Are there any console ports browsers?

    % lynx http://www.freshports.org/

Scroll down to near the end of the front page and select the
'Categories' link.  Or there's http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
which is similar, but isn't updated so often and doesn't contain as
much information.

     Cheers,

     Matthew

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