The 'cat/foo-*' doesn't work in the pkgtools.conf?

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Thu Dec 4 11:01:14 PST 2003


On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:48:27 -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH 
<allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 13:41, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> I didn't think of it would only check on ports directory instead. :-)
>
> I think it depends on the kind of expression you give it; with the
> slash, you're asking for a port-origin glob --- which doesn't include a
> version number.  (In fact, "ports_glob mplayer-\*" includes
> multimedia/mplayer, while "ports_glob multimedia/mplayer-\*" does not.)

Thanks! I just now learn about ports_glob, I never knew we had one.. :-)

Cheers,
Mezz


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