Hi and thanks for getting back to me. I guess each of these options have a balance between ease of use and the detail returned. However, it may well be worth suggesting a system such as the one I described being implemented in a future cygwin update. So the description metadata from setup.ini is somehow stored in a package which can be searched, thus avoiding the filename/keyword clash of option 1, or needing internet access as option 2.
Thank again. H. On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:21:18 -0700, "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hussein Patwa wrote: > > > Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My > > question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that > > fulfill a certain purpose? For example, I want to see how many apps have > > Several ideas: > > 1. Run "cygcheck -p keyword" which will match 'keyword' as a regexp > against the name, description, and list of filenames contained with each > package. However, since the result only contains the name and > description of the package it may be a bit confusing if the match > happened to be against a coincidently named filename. > > 2. Go to <http://cygwin.com/packages/> and use your browser's ctrl-F > search. > > 3. View the setup.ini file directly, e.g. "wget -q -O - > http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cygwin/setup.bz2 | bzip2 -cd | less". This is > the only way to view the ldesc field, as it is not currently used by > anything. > > Brian > -- Hussein Patwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
