port search

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 26, 2007, at 08:31, Charlse Darwin wrote:

> On Dec 20, 2007, at 3:05 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> # I already know category
> $ port search category:*
>
> # &
> $ port search long_description:*
>
> # what else is there?
> $ port search *:*

I think it might be the list between lines 720 and 735 of (r31925 of)  
src/port/port.tcl:

variants
variant
description
portdir
homepage
epoch
platforms
platform
name
long_description
maintainers
maintainer
categories
category
version
revision

At least, those all do work.