2008/6/19 Michael Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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]
I would prefer that it attempts to "do the right thing" without depending on the user to know that there's a special command-line switch to make it act like they would probably want it to already. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
