"B. Nice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 17 May 2007 06:54:37 -0400:
> FYI: Another program with a similar functionality is eix. [I] > app-portage/eix > Available versions: 0.8.8 ~0.9.1 ~0.9.2 ~0.9.3 ~0.9.4 ~0.9.6 > Installed versions: 0.8.8(13:02:21 03/14/07)(-sqlite) Homepage: > http://eix.sourceforge.net Description: Small utility > for searching ebuilds with > indexing for fast results For the searching, I use esearch. For the version listing, earch does a bit better as it lists the stable and ~arch versions /per/ /arch/, not just on the current arch. Of course, as I said, that's more a developer feature. I also mentioned that it had some other options, without listing them. Here's the --help output (-m is useful here, if it were primarily user oriented -f would be the default so that's useful, and -v, most of the others are more developer oriented). ~$earch --help Gentoo last arch keyword checking tool, with SLOT and masking support Usage: earch [opts] [CP] If CP is omitted, the current directory is used. Options: -c|--category Include category in output. -f|--follow-etc-portage By default, earch acts like repoman and ignores /etc/portage. This option disables that behavior. -h|--help This help page. -H|--hide-masked Exclude all masked versions from output. -i|--ignore-redundant Exclude redudant versions from keyword output. Redundant versions are those output by -r. -m|--masking-reason For all masked versions, print masking reason. Disables other output. -o|--one-slot Consider SLOT values as if they were all equal. This effectively disables SLOTs from consideration. -r|--remove-pkgs Show all redundant versions to clean from the tree. -s|--slot <SLOT,...> SLOT values to provide output for, seperated by commas. -v|--version earch version output. Explaination of output: # earch [$CATEGORY/$PN] $PF[$SLOT]: $KEYWORDS If a specific version is masked, a (M) will preceed the keywords. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
