On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:06:52 +0100
hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Could you elaborate how to query that field via eix which is the
> de-facto standard for finding packages?
The official standard for finding packages is packages.gentoo.org. It
(and the somewhat popular eix) have no problems at all reading
the DESCRIPTION variable from the actual ebuilds.
# eix eix
[I] app-portage/eix
Available versions: 0.25.5 0.29.3{tbz2} ~0.29.6 ~0.30.0 ~0.30.1
~0.30.2 {clang debug +dep doc nls optimization security sqlite
strong-optimization strong-security swap-remote tools
zsh-completion LINGUAS="de ru"}
Installed versions:
0.29.3{tbz2}(06:55:52 27/05/14)(dep doc nls sqlite -clang -debug
-optimization -security -strong-optimization -strong-security
-swap-remote -tools -zsh-completion LINGUAS="-de -ru")
Homepage: http://eix.berlios.de
Description: Search and query ebuilds, portage incl. local
settings, ext. overlays, version changes, and more
In this splendidly exemplary case, eix actually read the description
from the ebuild - its very own metadata.xml does not have one.
jer
