[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --search can't find local ebuild?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-05-28, wwong@×××××××××.edu <wwong@×××××××××.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 06:56:14PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2008-05-28, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 28 May 2008 16:28:19 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Yes.  It's in sys-apps, and both "emerge -av" and porthole
>> found it just fine.
>
> Hum, did my other mail not get through?

It never made it to gmane.org (which is where I read the list).

> Per the emerge man page, to use emerge --search with
> categories, you have to prefix the search with @, so do
>
>   emerge --search "@<category>/<package>"

Doh!  I should have spotted that.

Doing an "emerge --search ack" matches 141 packages, so I tried
to narrow the results by sticking on the category without
adding the "@".  Doing emerge --search '%^ack' accomplishes much
the same thing.

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