Re: [gentoo-amd64] earch Was: Old package in portage ?

[B. Nice]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 06:36 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> "Drake Donahue" <donahue95@×××××××.net> posted
> 001001c7980f$98e62720$0200a8c0@iwillxp333, excerpted below, on  Wed, 16
> May 2007 19:11:25 -0400:
>
> > earch looks like good candidate for gentoolkit
>
> That's what I thought, too.  I did discover there's a gentoolkit-dev
> package the other day, the parallel to gentoolkit but for scripts
> primarily of use to devs.  Maybe earch is in it?  In any case, it /is/ a
> handy script.  There are a number of optional parameters that do things
> like show masking and the reasons thereof, etc, tho I don't use them all
> that often.  Still handy when I do, however.
>
> I have the home page around here somewhere...
>
> Ah... yes...  robbat2's work.  Seems like I can update, too, as I have
> earch-0.9 and the newest is 0.9.2, as of May 29, 2006.  (I think it was
> 0.7 or earlier when I first grabbed it.  As I said, he posted it to the
> dev list.)
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/
>
> Note that at one point it broke, against ~arch portage.  It /may/ have
> been due to FEATURES=-metadata-transfer, but I'm not sure.  Anyway, it's
> working again here now.
>
> --
> Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman
>
FYI: Another program with a similar functionality is eix.  
[I] app-portage/eix
     Available versions:  0.8.8 ~0.9.1 ~0.9.2 ~0.9.3 ~0.9.4 ~0.9.6
     Installed versions:  0.8.8(13:02:21 03/14/07)(-sqlite)
     Homepage:            http://eix.sourceforge.net
     Description:         Small utility for searching ebuilds with
indexing for fast results

Hope this Helps.



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