[HEADS UP] Ports Infrastructure Changes

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Mar 23 19:47:49 UTC 2011


On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Olivier Smedts wrote:

> 2011/3/23 Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org>:
>> On 03/23/2011 03:48, Peter Jeffery wrote:
>>>
>>> If I was looking for the Opera port, I'd look in www-clients and if
>>> it wasn't in there then the next thing that I would be doing is hand
>>> searching the INDEX file
>>
>> cd /usr/ports/ && make search name=opera
>
> Or
> find /usr/ports -maxdepth 2 -name opera
> Slower than make search but faster than building an INDEX file before
> make search !

% whereis opera
opera: /usr/ports/www/opera

Granted, it doesn't always work.


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