16 Mar
2008
16 Mar
'08
10:45 p.m.
Niels Ganser wrote:
However I haven't followed the macports development so far and thought that these packages might already be in the works or there might actually be a port providing those programs out there. This is because I couldn't find a way to search for a port which provides a file identified only by a given name. Is this impossible due to the architecture of the system or is there a global index of all provided files? (à la "apt-file search" if anybody is familiar with this..)
No, you can't search for a file at a specific location as the files installed by a port are not known prior to installing. But `port search' looks for the given search string in port names and their descriptions. Rainer