category: getting description

[dlangille]

I think this is the best way to get the description for a [physical] category.

I am not sure how this is done now.

[17:36 empty dan /usr/ports/arabic] % make -V COMMENT
Arabic language support

see verifyport.pm, where you'll find:

                                        $category = $CategoriesChecked{$category_name};
                                        if (!defined($category)) {
                                                $category = FreshPorts::Category->new($dbh);
                                                $category->{name} = $category_name;
                                                my $category_id = $category->FetchByName();

                                                if (defined($category_id)) {
                                                        print "Category $category_name has ID = $category_id\n";
                                                } else {
                                                        # we need to create this catgory.
                                                        # remember to grab ports/<category>/pkg/COMMENT
                                                        # actually, it's in ports/<category>/Makefile as a COMMENT
                                                        print "creating new category $category_name\n";
                                                        FreshPorts::Utilities::ReportError('warning', "creating new category $category_name", 0);

                                                        $category->{is_primary} = 1;
                                                        $category_id = $category->save();
                                                        if (!defined($category_id)) {
                                                                FreshPorts::Utilities::ReportError('warning', "failed to create new category $category_name", 1);
                                                        }

                                                $CategoriesChecked{$category_name} = $category;

[dlangille]

See also #605