Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:49:41 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, vd@datamax.bg Subject: Re: portsearch: how to display search results Message-ID: <200512220849.42549.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051222164021.GA30104@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> References: <20051222164021.GA30104@qlovarnika.bg.datamax>
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On Thursday 22 December 2005 08:40, Vasil Dimov wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working on a tool that will allow easy (portsearch -f something) > and fast (less than a few seconds) to search for ports that install > some file. > > I see two options for displaying the results: > > 1) the simple way > Show each file that matches a given pattern with some information for > the port that would install it. This means that one port may be shown > more than once, which I find really irritating. > > Here is an example output when searching for files that match the > regular expression bin/f.* > > Port: portabc > File: bin/f1 > > Port: portabc > File: bin/f2 > > Port: portxyz > File: bin/f3 > > > 2) group files by port > Show ports that have at least one file matching a given pattern with all > the matching files they install > > Output from the same search criteria: > > Port: portabc > File(s): bin/f1, bin/f2 > > Port: portxyz > File(s): bin/f3 > > > My research shows that Debian's ``apt-file search'' and Fedora's > ``yum provides'' use "the simple way" and display one package more > than once. But 2) seems to me to be the prettier output. > > What do you think? I prefer the files grouped by port, do you have a working example yet? I'd like to give it a test run. -Mike
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