a coprehensive searcheable ports list?

[Kevin Ballard]

Check out the port.1 manpage. It has detail on various ways to  
search, including pseudo-portnames.

But in general, you can do `port search portname`, where portname can  
contain globbing characters.

If you want to find ports that provide a specific file, there's no  
way of doing that without having installed the port yet. If you've  
installed a port you can ask what port provides a given file on disk,  
but MacPorts does not know what files a given port will provide until  
it's installed.

On Jan 30, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:

> Greetings -- what's the ports equivalent of Gentoo's equery, i.e. how
> can I find out into which ports various gcc versions are packaged, or
> which port contains say "basename" utility, or another known tool?

-- 
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
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