FreeBSD Ports Collection Breaks 10,000 Ports

sremick writes "After breaking the 9,000 mark in July, the FreeBSD ports collection was well on its way of crossing 10,000 by the end of 2003. Sure enough, we made it! According to freshports, the number of ports in the FreeBSD ports tree currently stands at 10,015. This little graph is also nice, though not completely current. Way to go, FreeBSD!"

Comments

Re:Ports

[kernelistic]

Here's a good start...

cd /usr/ports
make readmes

You'll want to go grab a sandwhich at this point while it goes through all of the ports and creates their associated readme files. You'll then be able to use your favorite browser to list the ports and their descriptions. The URL you want file:///usr/ports/README.html .

Re:Ports

[no_l0gic]

My favorite FreeBSD ports related reference:
http://www.freshports.org/

News of new/updated ports as well as a searchable index of all ports (and you can navigate the site the same as your ports directory structure).

Also, on a somewhat related note, you know of the `cd /usr/ports && make search name=blah` or key=blah feature, right?

Happy New Year! (give or take a TimeZone...)

Re:Ports

[xA40D]

Is there a good listing of all the ports and what they do?

/usr/ports/INDEX

I know a script could be written to search /usr/ports/ and cat the pkg-descr file, but is there anything out there a little more user-friendly?

cd /usr/ports/
make search key=foo

Or, in answer to both your questions, try the FreeBSD website

Re:Ports

[linimon]

You might also want to check out portsman.