Announcing pkg_search

[Axel S. Gruner]

HI,

Am 03.12.2007 um 11:29 schrieb Matthias Schmidt:

> Hi guys,
>
> I am not really sure if this is the appropriate list ... if its not,  
> please redirect me to the right one.
>
> I wrote a small script called pkg_search to help me searching my  
> local ports tree for a port/package without using "make search  
> name=" or something like freshports.org.  Its not a big deal, but it  
> eases my daily pkg_add life a bit :)
>
> Example:
>
> % pkg_search fvwm2
> fvwm2-i18n-imlib-2.4.20_1       Popular virtual window manager for X
> % pkg_search -i fvwm2
> Name    : fvwm2-i18n-imlib-2.4.20_1-50
> Dir     : /usr/ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-i18n
> Desc    : Popular virtual window manager for X
> URL     : http://www.fvwm.org/
> Deps    : compositeproto-0.4
> [...]
>
> You can find it and a man page here:
>
> http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/pkg_search/

nice. Thanks for the tool. Just blogged: www.grunix.de ;-)

Cheers,

Axel