Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

[Matthew Seaman]

On 05/07/2012 19:06, Yuri wrote:
> It would be useful to have a command that finds the port name(s) by the
> command name when needed though.
> Today, for example, while searching for package that has a command
> 'svlc' I do 'cd /usr/ports && make search key=svlc' and it finds nothing
> instead of finding multimedia/vlc. make search seems to search through
> package names, dependency names, but not command names for some reason.

make search uses the INDEX, and that doesn't contain any information
about the files installed by ports.

Building a file index might be possible, but it would be several times
the size of the existing INDEX and take correspondingly longer to
generate.  Also, you'ld probably want it as a sqlite database or BDB
file for performance, rather than plain text.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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