Hello!

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:19:58AM -0400, Rick Barter wrote:
>I've obviously spent too much time away from the console lately.  I am 
>looking for a package and can't, for the life of me, remember how to 
>find them.

>I know there is a search key option to a command, but I can't remember 
>which command.  make?  pkg_info?  I've tried searching the archives, 
>but I can't seem to find it.  I've looked for 'find package' and 'find 
>port'.  I found a package finder at http://ports.puffy.nu/?f=s, but 
>this doesn't really help me remember the proper command.

If you have the ports tree installed,
  cd /usr/ports && make search key=foobar

>Also, it says ethereal is in /usr/ports/net/ethereal, but I can't find it.

ethereal has been removed due to many many security problems in the
code, IIRC.

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Kind regards,

Hannah.

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