Package list search (was Re: [Preliminary Patch] setup.exe size/position restore on startup)

Ralph Hempel rhempel@bmts.com
Thu May 14 14:30:00 GMT 2009


Thrall, Bryan wrote:

>> One additional feature that might be useful is a command
>> line switch that allows a search through the package list
>> that puts out a list of matches.
>>
>> Think of it as a grep through setup.ini
> 
> You mean like 'cygcheck -p <desired filename>'?

No, not quite. If I do something like:

   cygcheck -p find

I get a long list of "matches" that includes xorg man pages and
zsh.

What I expected was a list of packages that have "find" in the
first line of the package description (the @ line) or maybe
in the "requires:" line.

Ralph



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