From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Nov 21 21: 2: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from bsdvm.jtjang.idv.tw (121.c74.ethome.net.tw [210.58.74.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F6F37B479 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 21:01:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from keith@localhost) by bsdvm.jtjang.idv.tw (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAM51RP01187 for freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:01:27 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from keith) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:01:27 +0800 From: Jing-Tang Keith Jang To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem manipulating ports programatically Message-ID: <20001122130127.A593@bsdvm.jtjang.idv.tw> Reply-To: keith@freebsd.sinica.edu.tw Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00112117191502.01897@nightshade> <20001122112249.A454@bsdvm.jtjang.idv.tw> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jason@mastaler.com on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 09:44:32PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD bsdvm.jtjang.idv.tw 4.2-BETA FreeBSD 4.2-BETA Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 11/21/00, Jason R Mastaler wrote: > Perhaps, but locators such as `whereis' still can't distinguish > between them. `whereis' doesn't know about "de-dict", only "dict", > and then all the ports show up, multi-lingual and otherwise. Herein > lies my problem. Then use ports/INDEX instead. You can manually `make index` in case it didn't reflect latest changes. BTW, many ports still have "-" in their PORTNAME/PKGNAME, eg. netscape. So using "-" as separator may not be sufficient. -- Keep it simple AND stupid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message