Bug 502982

Summary:	app-portage/gentoolkit: equery meta should support pkgspec queries
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Paul Varner (RETIRED) <fuzzyray>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-02-27 18:48:32 UTC

This is best described by example:

$ equery list 'gentoo*'
 * Searching for gentoo* ...
[IP-] [  ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0.8-r2:0
[IP-] [  ] app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20130619:0
[I--] [??] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.1-r2:3.2.1-r2
[IP-] [  ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.17:3.10.17
[IP-] [  ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.25:3.10.25

$ equery meta 'gentoo*'
!!! Invalid atom: 'query.py: find_best(), bestmatch-visible, query=gentoo*, InvalidAtom=null/gentoo*'

This causes behavior to be inconsistent within equery and makes things like searching for all packages maintained by a specific herd hard.