Why is there no pkg_find(1)?

2013-06-07 Thread opendaddy
Hi, Why is there no pkg_find(1)? Having to grep ones FTP mirror or download the entire ports tree to do a make search doesn't seem like such a good idea. There's https://calomel.org/pkg_find.html -- what do you guys think of that? OpenDaddy

Re: Why is there no pkg_find(1)?

2013-06-07 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
openda...@hushmail.com writes: Hi, Why is there no pkg_find(1)? Because pkg_info -Q probably does what you need. Having to grep ones FTP mirror or download the entire ports tree to do a make search doesn't seem like such a good idea. There's [snip]/pkg_find.html -- what do you guys

Re: Why is there no pkg_find(1)?

2013-06-07 Thread Michał Markowski
Here you go: $ alias pkg_find='pkg_info -Q' $ pkg_find nginx nginx-1.4.1 nginx-1.4.1-lua nginx-1.4.1-passenger nginx-1.5.0 nginx-1.5.0-lua nginx-1.5.0-passenger -- Michał Markowski

Re: Why is there no pkg_find(1)?

2013-06-07 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2013 Jun 07 (Fri) at 09:59:43 + (+), openda...@hushmail.com wrote: :There's [cut]/pkg_find.html -- what do you guys think of that? You can really tell that the author of that script has no idea what they are doing. It won't run without a 3rd party package, and requires a second 3rd

Re: Why is there no pkg_find(1)?

2013-06-07 Thread Marc Espie
Just install ports-readmes-dancer There.

Re: Why is there no pkg_find(1)?

2013-06-07 Thread Ville Valkonen
On 7 June 2013 17:13, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: Just install ports-readmes-dancer There. ..or use pkg_mgr

Re: Why is there no pkg_find(1)?

2013-06-07 Thread Luis Coronado
Or http://openports.se/ On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Ville Valkonen weezeld...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 June 2013 17:13, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: Just install ports-readmes-dancer There. ..or use pkg_mgr

Re: Why is there no pkg_find(1)?

2013-06-07 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 11:00:12AM -0600, Luis Coronado wrote: Or http://openports.se/ I wouldn't recommend it. It still tries to parse the ports tree by hand, instead of using any number of correct solutions like sqlports or dump-vars, so they get details wrong. You will end up with missing

Re: Why is there no pkg_find(1)?

2013-06-07 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 07:42:27PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 11:00:12AM -0600, Luis Coronado wrote: Or http://openports.se/ I wouldn't recommend it. It still tries to parse the ports tree by hand, instead of using any number of correct solutions like sqlports or