Call for potential ports maintainers

John Marshall john.marshall at riverwillow.com.au
Mon Feb 16 00:45:54 PST 2009


On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, 17:23 +1100, Dylan Leigh wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:32:13PM -0500, Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
> > At any given time, approximately 20 - 25% of all ports are
> > unmaintained. Not all unmaintained ports need updating, but some do.
> > That is where you folks come in. 
> > 
> > There are a bunch of you out there who are subscribers to this list
> > (and other FreeBSD related lists too, I am sure), you have FreeBSD
> > installed and likely have quite an array of ports installed on this
> > system of yours. You are subscribed as a means of keeping up with
> > the world of FreeBSD.
> <snip>
> 
> Is there an easy way to get a list of all the unmaintained ports one
> currently has installed?

The bit of Thomas' email which you snipped includes a link to a script
to list them for you.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsTasks
(at the foot of the page)

-- 
John Marshall
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