digikam & amarok ports?

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Sun Mar 16 15:45:41 PDT 2008


Niels Ganser wrote:
> However I haven't followed the macports development so far and thought 
> that these packages might already be in the works or there might 
> actually be a port providing those programs out there. This is because I 
> couldn't find a way to search for a port which provides a file 
> identified only by a given name. Is this impossible due to the 
> architecture of the system or is there a global index of all provided 
> files? (à la "apt-file search" if anybody is familiar with this..)

No, you can't search for a file at a specific location as the files 
installed by a port are not known prior to installing. But `port search' 
looks for the given search string in port names and their descriptions.

Rainer


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