For PackageKit's "app-install", I wanted to list all ports/packages that had a .desktop file (= an "app").
This ended up in a large number of "false positives", since there is no list of the contents of each package. So the brute-force method is to download *all* of them. For Slackware, which also uses tarballs for packages, it was easier because they also make a MANIFEST file available in addition to the FILE_LIST (= ls -lR)... ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/slackware64-13.1/slackware64/FILE_LIST ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/slackware64-13.1/slackware64/MANIFEST.bz2 ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/slackware64-13.1/slackware64/PACKAGES.TXT Would it be possible to make such a file available for FreeBSD Packages too ? (maybe even both of them) --anders PS. Here was the simple script I used to create mine: #!/bin/sh MF=/tmp/MANIFEST for tbz in All/*.tbz do echo $tbz echo "++========================================" >> ${MF} echo "||" >> ${MF} echo "|| Package: $tbz" >> ${MF} echo "||" >> ${MF} echo "++========================================" >> ${MF} tar tjvf $tbz >> ${MF} done _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
