Chris Ridd wrote: > On 18 Jun 2008, at 14:16, Shawn Walker wrote: > >> 2008/6/18 Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> On 18 Jun 2008, at 09:57, Chris Ridd wrote: >>> >>>> This is on snv_90: >>>> >>>> $ pkg search libz >>>> $ pkg search libz.so >>>> INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE >>>> basename link lib/libz.so pkg://[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>> Is there a minimum length string that can be searched for? >>> >>> Same system: >>> >>> $ pkg search bin/wish >>> $ pkg search wish >>> INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE >>> basename link usr/bin/wish pkg://[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> Something's not quite right. >> I believe you're seeing the current expected behaviour. That is, >> partial matching is not the default behaviour. >> >> So libz.so works because it is a complete filename. libz doesn't >> because it is a substring match. >> >> The same goes for bin/wish and wish from what I understand. > > That makes sense, thanks for the explanation.
(sorry if this has come up already, I just signed up to this alias last night) would it be desirable to have this configurable? Eg sth. like $ pkg search libz $ pkg search -p libz INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE basename link lib/libz.so pkg://[EMAIL PROTECTED] cheers Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion' _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
