-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Doug Barton wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >> We owe it to our users to make it easy to add or install a port. In >> order for a user to do that, they need to know the name (if pkg_add -r), >> or location (if building themselves). That is the problem pkg_search >> solves. In fact someone told me about a new port I would find useful. >> In the end they gave me the wrong path to where it lives in /usr/ports >> and it took more effort than it should have to figure out where it lives. >> With pkg_search (in the base system) it would have taken only a second. > > You can accomplish the same thing by doing: > cd /usr/ports > make search name=blah > > Note, I'm not commenting on the value of the pkg_search tool, or the > worth of including it in the base, or anything else other than to say > that what you want to do is already possible, and fairly well documented.
Let's see what we can do it in the future: teach pkg_search about how to download an INDEX file for use, something that you don't have to install the whole ports tree and can do easily. I think this is a very useful feature. There are a lot of users who use packages rather than using ports, and something like pkg_search, pkg_update would definitely be an useful add to our current package tool set. Cheers, - -- Xin LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHXZIXhcUczkLqiksRAk8HAJ47KH9h3BLy7CjISrXQQyMU8ALHDACeOlIQ YY1CTa/jGMRPHUUXbusdgqw= =lSB3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
