portscout - new distfile scanner

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:05:32PM +0100, Shaun Amott wrote:
> As I mentioned a few days ago, I've been working on a system for
> checking for new ports distfiles. Someone pointed out that there is
> already a script which does this - however, it seems to be out of
> service.

Well, out of service... Yes.

But it was still available from sysutils/newportsversionchecker.

It was just that I couldn't run it regularely (If it runs at at
most 100 TCP sessions at the same time, then my computer starts to
be unresponsive, but this still takes 2 days to run. Can't afford
that on my work machine. Make/bsd.port.mk is fun, but it kills
performance now and then. Oh, and for these two days the bandwidth
is more or less maxed out. Yes, digital sandpath here)


Good to see somebody else took over the flame. Can't wait for my
first received email :-)


Please note that I still have a list of restrictions available if
you like it:
http://edwin.adsl.barnet.com.au/~edwin/ports/restricted-ports.html
Might be handy if you want to prevent re-analyzing the tree :-)


Edwin
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