> From: Anton Shterenlikht <me...@bristol.ac.uk> > Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:14:41 +0100 > To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> > Subject: Re: saving a few ports from death > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 03:55:56PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: >> >> My search for "popularity" metrics is intended to point me, as a >> maintainer, to ports I might want to adopt now, rather than wait for >> someone to complain about them. Everything *I* use is already >> maintained, so I've moved on to looking for things other people might >> need. But I don't want to waste my time on something that nobody uses. >> :) > > Interesting.. > > I used this sh(1) script to find > unmaintained ports that I use. > (I couldn't find a way to do the > job with the existing tools like > pkg_info or portmaster): > > #!/bin/sh > > prefix=/usr/ports/ > makefile=/Makefile > > for file in `pkg_info -oxa | grep "/"` > do > yes=`grep MAIN ${prefix}${file}${makefile} | grep ports` > if [ -n "$yes" ] > then > echo $file > fi > done >
[SNIP] Small observation, since that script picks up all of us who use 'ports' in our maintainer email addresses (myself for example), might I suggest the following tweak to your script (full address and checking for file existence): #!/bin/sh prefix=/usr/ports/ makefile=/Makefile for file in `pkg_info -oxa | grep "/"` do if test -f ${prefix}${file}${makefile} then yes=`grep MAIN ${prefix}${file}${makefile} | grep -i 'ports@freebsd\.org'` if [ -n "$yes" ] then echo $file fi fi Done Although in only greping makefiles that exist it doesn't alert you to your installed ports when the port has been removed from the tree... It's an interesting situation and I wonder if there is a tool (I suppose akin to portaudit) that alerts sys admins when ports they have installed are depreciated or maintainers drop them? Obviously one can sign up for the various types of alerts from Freshports, but I expect a few people here have rolled their own periodic alert tools... Regards Eric _______________________________________________ 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"