From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from sm12.texas.rr.com (sm12.texas.rr.com [24.93.35.43]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E9320EDAF2 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 21:39:50 -0600 (CST) Received: from gentoo.shacknet.nu (cs6625132-244.austin.rr.com [66.25.132.244]) by sm12.texas.rr.com (8.12.1/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g2A3X8VB013952; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 21:33:08 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo observations From: Matthew Kennedy To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Cc: mrfab@arn.net In-Reply-To: <20020310031135.GA29666@powerhouse> References: <20020310031135.GA29666@powerhouse> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 09 Mar 2002 21:29:17 -0600 Message-Id: <1015730957.15287.15.camel@gentoo.shacknet.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 0ec811be-c1ed-472e-bbe2-203bf98464ce X-Archives-Hash: b81812e0bc16149c9eda581273e404a3 Howdy, > I may be just missing something, but it seemed odd > to me that there wasn't someplace I could look to > get a full index of ebuilds and descriptions. As a > quick hack I used the command below--but it > certainly isn't very elegant at all. > > for x in `find /usr/portage/ -name '*.ebuild'` ; do ; echo `basename $x .ebuild` `grep DESCRIPTION $x` ; done > packages Try emerge --search ".*" --search takes a regex (it's all in man emerge) Matt