Portell is a Python program that finds and displays detailed information on user specified BSD system's package name. All you do is supply a valid package name and portell will find it in its given /usr/ports/ subdir and display it's pkg-descr or pkg/DESCR file. The result happens immediately since portell does a lookup from a preexisting database.

The first time you run portell.py you need to create a database called /var/db/portell.db for quick lookups. To do this type:

    portell.py -u

Now you can use portell normally from now on. Say you want to know what "blackbox" is, simply type:

    portell.py blackbox

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