New /bin/sh based script to manage ports

[Jiawei Ye]

On 1/5/06, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Does the world really need one more port management tool? Well I'm not sure
> about the world, but I do know that none of the existing options worked for
> me, for a variety of reasons. The two biggest being that I do not want to
> have to install yet another language, and I do not want the overhead of a
> database to manage the information about what ports I have installed, etc.
>
> The goals I started with for this project were to use /bin/sh so that
> nothing else would have to be installed for it to work, and to make use of
> the existing data in /var/db/pkg. I now have something that meets those
> goals, and does everything I want it to do, so I'm interested in sharing it
> with the community.
>
> More information, and a link to download the script are on the page.
>
> Comments welcome,
>
> Doug
I think sysutils/portmanager already fullfills your criteria. It's
written in C and it makes use of the current infrastructure (no dbs
involved).

Jiawei Ye
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