On 2005.01.04 14:30:14 -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:22:00PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > It provides a link to where the package would be if it exists. The > > web frontend has no knowledge of which packages are available at any > > given point in time because this set fluctuates on a daily basis, so > > the frontend is always going to have windows where it's out of date > > with respect to what's on the ftp site. > > I'm sorry, but clue me in here. You are saying that the online database of > ports has no idea what is in the ports tree?
There is a port, just not a package. The issue is that the web pages uses INDEX (from ports/INDEX) to know which ports exists [1], but INDEX says nothing about packages. It's a while since I looked at the scripts, but there is some kind of mechanism to detect if a package exists for a port, but AFAIR that only works when searching for -STABLE/-CURRENT and not releases. Somebody (tm) would have to make the scripts know which packages exist for which releases to fix this. [1] Which btw. is going to fail for 4.11 since there is no INDEX in CVS... -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team
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