port search

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Dec 20 00:05:25 PST 2007


On Dec 20, 2007, at 01:47, Charlse Darwin wrote:

> 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
> $

$ port search long_description:browser





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