On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:36:10 +0200
Paul Sokolovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > > It would be rather natural to expect it to accept full path.
> > > Looking at the source, it uses fnmatch(), so following should
> > > work too: ipkg search '*stdio.h'
> > 
> > Oups... It works only fro packages that were installed :-/ it
> > refused to find ipkg search '*pango.h' until I've installed
> > pango-dev and now I do not know how to find where to get
> > gpe/init.h :-(
> 
> Few things can be said here:
> 
> 1. On-device development sucks. Get the real computer with
> OpenEmbedded. 2. If you insist, install *-dev package for some gpe
> app, it should pull up all the needed stuff.
> 3. For more comfort, we would have some on-device sdk meta-package one
> sweet day.
> 4. Another sweet day, http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/ may
> acquire file search capability, just like Debian's.

Added this information to the FAQ. (The information that there is no way
to find packages by filenames)

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