Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing!

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2009-Nov-08 12:56:52 -0800, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>I'm very pleased to announce that the first version of portmaster with
>package support is ready for beta testing. :)

Thank you for your efforts.

>support next. I don't think ftp support is going to be possible unless
>I can find a creative way to download a remote directory list.

This is possible using only base system tools:

aspire% echo dir | ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
Trying 204.152.184.73...
Connected to ftp.freebsd.org.
220 Welcome to freebsd.isc.org.
331 Please specify the password.
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
200 Switching to Binary mode.
250 Directory successfully changed.
250-If you're looking for one of the FreeBSD releases, please look in the
250-releases/${ARCH}/${RELNAME} directory, where ARCH = "alpha", "amd64",
250-"i386", "ia64", "pc98", or "sparc64" and RELNAME = the release
250-you're interested in, e.g. "6.1-RELEASE" or "5.5-RELEASE".
250-
250 Directory successfully changed.
227 Entering Passive Mode (204,152,184,73,225,24).
150 Here comes the directory listing.
drwxrwxr-x    6 110      1002          512 Jan 22  2009 CERT
lrwxrwx--x    1 110      1002           15 Oct 23  2006 CTM -> development/CTM
lrwxrwx--x    1 110      1002           17 Oct 23  2006 CVSup -> development/CVSup
drwxrwxr-x    4 110      1002          512 Oct 23  2006 ERRATA
lrwxrwx--x    1 110      1002           17 Oct 23  2006 FreeBSD-current -> branches/-current
lrwxrwx--x    1 110      1002           19 Oct 23  2006 FreeBSD-stable -> branches/4.0-stable
lrwxrwx--x    1 110      1002           25 Oct 23  2006 ISO-IMAGES-alpha -> releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES
lrwxrwx--x    1 110      1002           25 Oct 23  2006 ISO-IMAGES-amd64 -> releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES
...

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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