Re: Announcing pkg_search

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
all I wrote a simple `pkg_info', which does what your `pkg_search' does,
but it uses berkeley db to store package information.

My idea is that `pkg_install' tools should be implemented in a
combination of shell scripts and C codes. That way both the shell script
parts and C parts would be somewhat straightforward compared with the
current implementation of `pkg_install'. 

>
> Example:
>
> % pkg_search fvwm2
> fvwm2-i18n-imlib-2.4.20_1       Popular virtual window manager for X
> % pkg_search -i fvwm2
> Name    : fvwm2-i18n-imlib-2.4.20_1-50
> Dir     : /usr/ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-i18n
> Desc    : Popular virtual window manager for X
> URL     : http://www.fvwm.org/
> Deps    : compositeproto-0.4
> [...]
>
> You can find it and a man page here:
>
> http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/pkg_search/
>
> BTW:  It works under DragonFly as well.  {Net,Open}BSD might work as
> well (with possible adoption), but I don't have machines here to test.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Matthias
>
>
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> Dipl.-Inf. Matthias Schmidt <schmidtm_at_mathematik.uni-marburg.de>
> Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Distributed Systems Group
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