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List:       macports-users
Subject:    Re: Search the contents of (all) ports
From:       Andreas Wilm <andreas.wilm () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-06-29 8:41:32
Message-ID: AANLkTinEfmNGUxcEZZErEmvbNeXSo5jGLTA0moHpSOAF () mail ! gmail ! com
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Thanks for the answers.

Didn't realise how complicated it is to maintain such a list.

Andreas


On 26 June 2010 13:15, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2010, at 07:06, Joshua Root wrote:
> > On 2010-6-26 21:58 , Andreas Wilm wrote:
> > > I was wondering if there is a way to search the contents of all ports,
> > > i.e. also not installed ports. Ideally such a list would contain only
> > > files that are actually installable and exclude the source files.
> > > Something like Debian's apt-file for ports or a web-frontend like
> > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
> > > 
> > > Background is that I found myself in a situation where I was looking
> > > for a certain latex class and had no idea which port to install.
> > 
> > This would obviously be useful, but implementing it requires someone to
> > first compile a list of the contents of all available ports. To see the
> > contents of a port, you first have to build it.
> > 
> > Once there's a list, someone has to implement a way to let users query it.
> 
> 
> This is complicated by the fact that a port might install a different set of files \
> for any number of reasons -- for example because of what variants are selected, or \
> what OS version or processor architecture is used, or even what other ports are \
> installed (this last should not be the case, but sometimes is through oversight). 
> Probably we need to get binary distributions working first, via MPAB. If we had all \
> that done, with a build server building and packaging ports for distribution, it \
> would be easy to have it also keep a manifest of what got installed for each port \
> (a separate list for each set of variants, processor arch and OS version (for \
> however many processor arch and OS version combinations we end up supporting binary \
> builds for (i.e. possibly just x86_64 Snow Leopard))). 
> 



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