On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Marin Atanasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michel Talon wrote: > >> I can only concur with the suggestion you mention, exploring ftp sites >> to discover what is available here. How to do that efficiently is >> harder. Apparently "official" FreeBSD ftp sites have an INDEX of >> available packages. I hope it is reliable. Then i suggest to download it >> and work from that. > > Yes, that's the most reasonable approach. First I thought to write some > functions using libcurl > to fetch from and navigate the FTP server, but I think that it will be > better if I stick to the main principle of > developing in Unix - simple tools combined together to solve some complex > task. > That's why I think that if I keep the program's code as clean and simple as > possible it would become a > useful tool (maybe :)), so for downloading the INDEX file fetch would do the > job :) After all the idea > about the program was to provide some interactive interface to pkg_add, and > not to rediscover the tools > which are already in the base system :)
Try fetch(3). > Anyway tomorrow (or today perhaps) I'll have a working version of the > program which searches an FTP server for a given package pattern and I'll > post back the code. You can get all of this information, again, from INDEX with or without pkg_info. -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
