Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. =================================================================== RCS file: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_online-server/DESCR,v retrieving revision 1.4 retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -p -r1.4 -r1.5 --- pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_online-server/DESCR 2011/05/18 07:13:10 1.4 +++ pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_online-server/DESCR 2011/05/21 09:07:04 1.5 @@ -1,2 +1,20 @@ +pkg_online - client/server package searcher for pkgsrc. + +Every separate field (PKGPATH, PKGNAME, COMMENT etc.) may be queried +separately and multiple fields may be queried too. A lot of search +strategies are available. Set of fields and search strategies may +very depending on your server configuration. Search in multiple +"repositories" is supported too, e.g. search in binary repository +or in pkgsrc source tree. + +Communication protocol is a well known dictionary protocol described +in RFC-2229. Server may run dictd or any other dictionary protocol +server. For dictd see http://www.dict.org and +http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict + +pkg_online has minimal amount of things specific to pkgsrc and can +easily be adapted to any other packageing systems. + +Of course it is based on pkg_summary-utils ;-) This package provides tools for building PKG_ONLINE databases.