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Bug 134400 - wishlist: make it possible to search for full package names
Summary: wishlist: make it possible to search for full package names
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] gpackages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Lowest normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Infrastructure
URL: http://package.gentoo.org
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Reported: 2006-05-26 03:58 UTC by Richard Hartmann
Modified: 2007-11-08 07:29 UTC (History)
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Description Richard Hartmann 2006-05-26 03:58:36 UTC 
searching for any full name like www-apps/rt will not yield any results. in this special case, searching for rt results in 1283 hits, which is way too many to look through by hand.

if i only want to have info about a specific package, i would much prefer to just search for category/name and get the direct result
Comment 1 Bo Ørsted Andresen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-26 04:46:49 UTC 
Try emerge --search ^rt$
Comment 2 Richard Hartmann 2006-05-26 04:53:03 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Try emerge --search ^rt$

I know this works, both with emerge and packages.gentoo.org. Still, using the full name is much more intuitive for users than using regexp.
Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-09-12 16:46:03 UTC 
Reassigning to the main infra group since Marduk is retired.
Comment 4 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2007-11-08 07:29:13 UTC 
Full name is supported with the new packages2:
http://packages2.gentoo.org/packages/www-apps/rt
Actual searching to come later.