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
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Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
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