Re: Minor issue with port naming

[Jim Mock <mij@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 02:27  PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> So, I wanted to know where to find the port for Pine, so I did 
> 'whereis pine'. It reported:
>   pine: /usr/ports/hebrew/pine
> Doing a bit more work, I found that it was in mail/pine4. Suggestion: 
> either rename mail/pine4 to mail/pine or rename hebrew/pine to 
> hebrew/pine4. Or (and this would take more work) make whereis search a 
> list where trailing numerals had been stripped.

Use 'make search' in /usr/ports.  I.e.,

   % cd /usr/ports && make search key="pine"

- jim

--
jim mock <mij@{soupnazi|opendarwin}.org>               jim@xxxxxxxxxxx


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx
with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports-bugs" in the body of the message