Comments on: pkg_search available http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2007/12/03/2547.html A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: justin http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2007/12/03/2547.html/comment-page-1#comment-16874 justin Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:15:09 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.php/2007/12/03/2547.html#comment-16874 I think it's a tool you can add via pkgsrc, but it's not installed by default. I daresay the most common tools at this point are find, locate, and ls. I think it’s a tool you can add via pkgsrc, but it’s not installed by default. I daresay the most common tools at this point are find, locate, and ls.

]]> By: Alexander Orlov http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2007/12/03/2547.html/comment-page-1#comment-16870 Alexander Orlov Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:39:14 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.php/2007/12/03/2547.html#comment-16870 Is pkgfind the common tool used for the NetBSD's pkgsrc to find software for a certain purpose? Is pkgfind the common tool used for the NetBSD’s pkgsrc to find software for a certain purpose?

]]> By: Adam Hoka http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2007/12/03/2547.html/comment-page-1#comment-16854 Adam Hoka Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:36:47 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.php/2007/12/03/2547.html#comment-16854 and what about pkgfind? −C Search in the “COMMENT” field, instead of looking at package names. −c Do case sensitive searches. −M Search in the “MAINTAINER” field, instead of looking at package names. −n number Stop searching after number packages are found. −q Don’t show the comment in the output, only the package name. −x Do exact word searches. the only problem of pkgfind, that it has a lot of bsd-ism in the code, so i had to modfy it when i wanted to compile it on solaris without nbcompat. i will try pkg_search if its a good alternative for pkgfind with pkgsrc and what about pkgfind?

−C Search in the “COMMENT” field, instead of looking at package
names.

−c Do case sensitive searches.

−M Search in the “MAINTAINER” field, instead of looking at package
names.

−n number
Stop searching after number packages are found.

−q Don’t show the comment in the output, only the package name.

−x Do exact word searches.

the only problem of pkgfind, that it has a lot of bsd-ism in the code, so i had to modfy it when i wanted to compile it on solaris without nbcompat.

i will try pkg_search if its a good alternative for pkgfind with pkgsrc

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