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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:20:59 +0100
From:      Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.bawue.com>
To:        =?koi8-r?B?69XUxcrOycvP1yDkzcnU0snK?= <kuteynikov@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Ports Search webpage is not usable
Message-ID:  <20071220172058.GA1571@voodoo.bawue.com>
In-Reply-To: <f43f0aea0712191304x29eaf78fq75a67a785217f8f7@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <f43f0aea0712191304x29eaf78fq75a67a785217f8f7@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:04:07AM +0300, Кутейников Дмитрий wrote:
> Web interface for ports collection is very inconvenient. I want to find
> package to install it by `pkg_add -r` command (because I don't have much
> time to build it from ports tree) but it's name on the site and in the
> package server differ. I've spent a lot of time trying to guess, what
> command I should enter to install openoffice.org-2.3.20071115 : `pkg_add -r
> openoffice.org`, `pkg_add -r openofficeorg-23`, `pkg_add -r
> openofficeorg23`, `pkg_add -r openoffice.org-2.3.20071115` or `pkg_add -r
> openoffice-org_23`. It's unbearable! Look at
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=openoffice.org&searchon=names&suite=testing&section=all
> It's simple. It gave me all information I need to know and I can type
> `apt-get install openoffice.org` or download precompiled package straight
> from the site.
> 
> FIX: Show real package names in the search results and give a link to
> precompiled package.

Well, you can always use "make package-name" to get the proper package
name, another side is, the specified name can be not available of ftp
server if the package wasn't uploaded from pointyhat.

-Kirill



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