Announcing pkg_search

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting "Denise H. G." <darcsis at gmail.com> (from Mon, 03 Dec 2007  
21:21:32 +0800):

> Matthias Schmidt <schmidtm at mathematik.uni-marburg.de> writes:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I am not really sure if this is the appropriate list ... if its not,
>> please redirect me to the right one.
>>
>> I wrote a small script called pkg_search to help me searching my local
>> ports tree for a port/package without using "make search name=" or
>> something like freshports.org.  Its not a big deal, but it eases my
>> daily pkg_add life a bit :)
>
> Hi
>
> I am also interested in `pkg_install' tools. A couple of weeks ago I
> planned to rewrite the `pkg_install' tools from scratch. And first of

I hope you are aware of the Google Summer of Code 2007 project with  
the goal to improve the pkg_* stuff...

http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/soc2007/revised%5ffbsd%5fpkgtools&HIDEDEL=YES

Bye,
Alexander.

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