portsearch: how to display search results

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Friday 23 December 2005 06:41, Vasil Dimov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:49:41AM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for your response. I implemented grouping and now 1) can easily
> be supported, e.g. the prog will support both modes via some command
> line options.
>
> I have a working program, but I want to make some cleanup before fireing
> it out.
>
> Happy holidays!

If you need a beta tester, let me know.

-Mike