website confusion: ports list and sources?

Kevin Ballard eridius at macports.org
Mon Feb 19 11:26:59 PST 2007


Convenient command: `port cat portname`. That will spit out the  
source to the Portfile for the given portname.

You can also use `cd $(port dir portname)` to chdir to the folder  
containing the given Portfile. That's handy when you want to check  
the files/ subdir.

On Feb 17, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Phil Rand wrote:

> Thanks, Timothy.
>
> That's what I wanted -- the source to the port files themselves.   
> Meanwhile, I remembered I can browse them on my own file system.    
> D'oh!

-- 
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
eridius at macports.org
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