Another milestone...

[Dan Langille]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:43:51PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> > On 29 Dec 2003 at 22:34, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> >
> > > According to freshports.org, the addition of the palm/uppc-kmod port on
> > > Mon Dec 29 16:33:02 2003 UTC has resulted in the passing of yet another
> > > milestone: this took the count of available ports to 10,000.
> > >
> > >     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/palm/uppc-kmod/Makefile
> > >
> > > Pretty impressive going.
> >
> > Not to detract from the significance, But I should be the first to
> > say that FreshPorts counts ports differently to that found in
> > /usr/ports/INDEX, which does not necessarily include all ports in the
> > tree.
>
> By definition, INDEX includes all ports that are connected to the
> tree, and excludes only those that have not yet been connected
> (e.g. repo-copies in progress) or have been deliberately disconnected
> (usually due to extreme breakage).
>
> AFAIR freshports counts the disconnected ports too.

Yes, FreshPorts does count them.  It is literally a "select count(*) from
ports where status <> 'D'".

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Dan Langille - BSDCan: http://www.bsdcan.org/