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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:24:08 -0800
From:      Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org>
To:        Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Minor issue with port naming
Message-ID:  <0B477B6C-2EAC-11D7-96A6-000393460DB2@soupnazi.org>
In-Reply-To: <p05210232ba54ca87d695@[165.227.249.18]>

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On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 02:27  PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> So, I wanted to know where to find the port for Pine, so I did 
> 'whereis pine'. It reported:
>   pine: /usr/ports/hebrew/pine
> Doing a bit more work, I found that it was in mail/pine4. Suggestion: 
> either rename mail/pine4 to mail/pine or rename hebrew/pine to 
> hebrew/pine4. Or (and this would take more work) make whereis search a 
> list where trailing numerals had been stripped.

Use 'make search' in /usr/ports.  I.e.,

    % cd /usr/ports && make search key="pine"

- jim

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jim mock <mij@{soupnazi|opendarwin}.org>               jim@FreeBSD.org


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