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

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? Per the emerge man page, to use
emerge --search with categories, you have to prefix the search with @,
so do

  emerge --search "@<category>/<package>"

W
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