110377 – equery needs regex of "summary text"

Bug 110377 - equery needs regex of "summary text"

Summary: equery needs regex of "summary text"

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2005-10-24 14:11 UTC by Anthony Ettinger
Modified:	2005-10-24 15:02 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Anthony Ettinger 2005-10-24 14:11:26 UTC

would be great if it were possible to search the portage descriptions, for
example: "XML Framework".

equery --search "XML Framework"



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
list of pkgs matching the string in the description field.

Comment 1 Dan 2005-10-24 14:58:08 UTC

Wrong tool. 
 
Use  
a) emerge -S 
b) qsearch (portage-utils) 
c) packages.gentoo.org 
d) gentoo-portage.com 
e) eix 
f) esearch 
g) I'm probably forgetting 3 or 7

Comment 2 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2005-10-24 15:02:30 UTC

two points to Dan.