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List:       perl-win32-users
Subject:    Re: Beta of PPM version 4 released: Usability, Feature Suggestions
From:       Gisle Aas <gisle () ActiveState ! com>
Date:       2006-06-19 12:13:37
Message-ID: lrfyi1z6ku.fsf () caliper ! activestate ! com
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"$Bill Luebkert" <dbecoll@adelphia.net> writes:

> Are you saying that PPM will remember searches across multiple (more
> than one) executions ?

Yes.  The result of the last search is stored in the
$APPDATA/ActiveState/ActivePerl/ppm-$ARCH.db file.  This is an SQLite
database that also stores the cached repository state.

> EG:
> 
> ::> ppm search DBI
> 
> ::> ppm desc 2      (will describe 2nd entry from prior search) ?

This would have worked if 'ppm search DBI' had given you more than 1
result.  Currently 'ppm search' only finds a single package if you
manage to match the package name exactly (case significant) as your
example does.  If you want all packages whose name contain 'DBI' you
need to either use 'ppm search *DBI*' or 'ppm search dbi'.  The later
works because there in no pacakge actually called 'dbi', so PPM treat
is as 'ppm search *dbi*'.

Regards,
Gisle
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