Specifying & searching of package flavors
parv/freebsd
parv.0zero9+freebsd at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 23:19:24 UTC 2021
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 1:05 PM parv/freebsd wrote:
> 1- How does one search for available flavors of a package by partial
> or full package origin?
>
> For example, given origin of "devel/lua-stdlib" would install the
> packages
> for all available versions of lua (5.1--5.4). Only way I found that that
> would be the case is during the actual install.
>
> Issues here ...
> - "pkg search lua-stdlib" does not show any results;
> - "pkg install lua-stdlib at lua54" fails to find any available packages.
> Only
> thing that would work is "lua54-stdlib";
> - to be able to "-x" option, I would need to have prior knowledge to use
> "lua.+?stdlib" ( "lua.+?-stdlib" does not work) to give to
> pkg-{info,search}.
>
...
I meant '... "lua.+stdlib" ("lua.+?-stdlib" does not work) to give to
pkg-{info,search}'.
- parv
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