FreeBSD Scripts
Here you can find some scripts that made life easier for me. Maybe they can help you too?
psearch
A utility for searching the FreeBSD ports. It lets you specify a regular expression for searching, can search the long description (pkg-descr file), or do an inverse match, similar to grep -v.
Here's an example that shows how it works:
$ psearch firefox chinese/firefox-zh_CN Firefox Simplified Chinese(zh-CN) Language Pack chinese/firefox-zh_TW Firefox Traditional Chinese(zh-TW) Language Pack japanese/firefox-ja Firefox Japanese(ja) Language Pack korean/firefox-ko Firefox Korean(ko) Language Pack www/adblock-firefox A content filtering plug-in for Firefox www/bugmenot-firefox Firefox extension to bypass compulsory web registration www/firefox Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla www/firefox-remote Wrapper scripts for firefox web browser www/linux-firefox Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla www/mozex-firefox Mozex allows Firefox's users to use external programs for mail, news, etc. www/preferential-firefox GUI interface to view & edit all Firefox prefs
psearch has been added to the FreeBSD ports collection under ports-mgmt/psearch. I suggest you use that to install it. If you still want to download it manually, here you go:
The current version 2 of psearch is written in C++. If for some reason you want the previous version which is written in Python, use the following link.
Download psearch-1.2.tar.gz (legacy version)
findlibusers.py
This script was written after the release of FreeBSD-5.3-BETA7 as a tool to figure out which packages needed to be rebuilt as a result of the library bump. What it does is listing all packages that have files using the libraries specified in the badlibs array.
This script is written in Python, which you may have to install first on your system.
makesubindex
Note: This script has been superseded by psearch, and I recommend that you use psearch instead of this.
This Perl script takes /usr/ports/INDEX-5 and creates a series of leaner index files that are more suitable for browsing and grepping. Toss it into /usr/ports, and run it as root to generate the index files. Rerun it every time your INDEX-5 file changes to update the index files as well.
Here's an example showing how using those index files works:
$ grep regexp /usr/ports/index dgd-net net/dgd-net Dworkin's Generic Driver + extra networking support + regexps fpc-regexpr devel/fpc-regexpr Free Pascal regular expression routines gnu-regexp java/gnu-regexp A regexp library for Java gregexp misc/gregexp A graphical regular expression explorer grepmail mail/grepmail Search mailboxes for a given regexp and display matching emails jakarta-regexp java/jakarta-regexp Regular expressions for Java libtre textproc/libtre A lightweight fully POSIX compliant regexp matching library newsgrab news/newsgrab Download and uudecode binary files from USENET using regexps p5-DelimMatch textproc/p5-DelimMatch Perl extension to find regexp delimited strings with proper nesting sarep textproc/sarep Command-line search and replace tool; written in Perl; handles regexps tkregexp misc/tkregexp An interactive regexp design tool
