port search

Charlse Darwin macports.users at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 23:47:33 PST 2007


How do I get `port search' to look into meta-data? Here is an example:

# Firefox is a browser but word `browser' turns up in its meta-data
$ port search firefox
firefox-x11                    www/firefox-x11 2.0.0.7       
Mozilla.org's popular stand-alone browser
# Therefore following fails to return `Firefox'
$ port search browser
headerbrowser                  devel/headerbrowser 0.8.3         
simple, efficient tool for creating doc from C/C++ source
$


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