Bug 110377

Summary:	equery needs regex of "summary text"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Anthony Ettinger <apwebdesign>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.