Interactive tool for installing packages
Marin Atanasov Nikolov
dnaeon at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 20:03:49 UTC 2010
Hello,
Some time ago I've started a thread on freebsd-ports@ regarding an
interactive tool for installing packages under FreeBSD - pkg_add_it.
Now that I got some time to work on the program, I have added a few
additional features to it, which I think someone might find useful
like:
- dependencies tree view of packages (useful to find out package dependencies)
- a similar tool that does this already exists - pkg_tree, but it
only works for installed ports, while pkg_add_it can show you every
package from INDEX
- regex support
- displays categories and packages from each of them found in INDEX
- some code improvements, etc...
The code can be found here [1] and in order to install the program, you need to:
# git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it
# cd pkg_add_it && make install clean
I still haven't updated the manual pages yet, but you can read
something about the program on the web page [2].
Screenshots can be seen as well. [3]
Would be nice if someone can test it, and provide some feedback - what
can be removed, improved, added, etc..
Surely, there's room for improvement, but that's a start.. :)
Thanks,
Marin
[1] git.unix-heaven.org
[2] www.unix-heaven.org/index.php?page=pkg_add_it
[3] http://www.unix-heaven.org/pkg_add_it-new-gfx/
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Marin Atanasov Nikolov
dnaeon AT gmail DOT com
daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org
http://www.unix-heaven.org/
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