On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:46:46 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There was recently a question about which .deb added GIF capability to the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says:
search search performs a full text search on all available package files for the regex pattern given. It searchs the package names and the descriptions for an occurance of the string and prints out the package name and the short description.
The problem seems to be that the word 'gimp' appears only in the package name and the word 'gif' appears only in the description.
Shouldn't the search treat the package name and the description as a single string? Doing so would have given the correct answer for the above query.
I assume you mean gimp1.2-nonfree (or gimp1.3-nonfree)? I looked at the source code for apt-cache search but it is not clear what it is doing.
I agree with you that combined searching of the package name and the description is desirable. I think you should report this as a bug against apt. I did a search, and I don't see anything currently like this in the bug database. In fact, there only seem to be a few (a couple or so) bugs against apt-cache search.
If you don't want to file a bug I can do so. Let me know.
I don't think "gimp gif" is a regular expression:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: apt-cache search gimp.*gif grokking-the-gimp - GIMP tutorial book by Carey Bunks (HTML)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: apt-cache search gif.*gimp grokking-the-gimp - GIMP tutorial book by Carey Bunks (HTML) gimageview - Image Viewer using GTK+
"apt-cache search gimp" and "apt-cache search gif" show that both the header and body are searched.
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