[Slapt-get-user] Slapt-get produces duplicate output when searching packages
Jason Woodward
woodwardj at jaos.org
Sat Apr 1 15:54:05 EST 2006
Hi Hiram,
> I use Slack 10.2 and slapt-get 0.9.11b which I installed recently.
> I had 0.9.11 and I thought if I installed a newer version my problems
> would go away.
>
> The problem is when I use "slapt-get --search package" the output of
> slapt-get
> doubles some package names like this:
>
> "slapt-get --search alsa" produces -->
>
> This is a pain in the ass since I have to dig through a lot of stuff
> to find what I need. is this a bug?
--search actually searches the name, version, location, and description of the packages. So
your search term may show up in various places. Since the argument to --search is a regular
expression, you can be explicit in what you want matched. For example, to search for any
packages beginning with alsa, use the caret (^) modifier to specify beginning of string.
--search ^alsa will give you the finer grained results you are looking for.
HTH,
jason
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Jason Woodward
woodwardj at jaos.org
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