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diff --git a/pkgtools/pkg_online-server/DESCR b/pkgtools/pkg_online-server/DESCR index bfed53e0f8e..385d96dcbe4 100644 --- a/pkgtools/pkg_online-server/DESCR +++ b/pkgtools/pkg_online-server/DESCR @@ -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. |