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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:23:30 -0800
From:      Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
To:        Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Minor issue with port naming
Message-ID:  <p05210238ba55b92cfefa@[165.227.249.18]>
In-Reply-To: <0B477B6C-2EAC-11D7-96A6-000393460DB2@soupnazi.org>
References:  <0B477B6C-2EAC-11D7-96A6-000393460DB2@soupnazi.org>

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At 12:24 AM -0800 1/23/03, Jim Mock wrote:
>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"

Sweet, thanks! And it's even in the README in /usr/ports, which I 
have now read...

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