1 pkg_online - client/server package searcher for pkgsrc.
3 Every separate field (PKGPATH, PKGNAME, COMMENT etc.) may be queried
4 separately and multiple fields may be queried too. A lot of search
5 strategies are available. Set of fields and search strategies may
6 very depending on your server configuration. Search in multiple
7 "repositories" is supported too, e.g. search in binary repository
8 or in pkgsrc source tree.
10 Communication protocol is a well known dictionary protocol described
11 in RFC-2229. Server may run dictd or any other dictionary protocol
12 server. For dictd see http://www.dict.org and
13 http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict
15 pkg_online has minimal amount of things specific to pkgsrc and can
16 easily be adapted to any other packageing systems.
18 Of course it is based on pkg_summary-utils ;-)
20 This package provides tools for building PKG_ONLINE databases.