RFE: port search should search name, description and long_description

[raimue@…]

At the moment, port search only searches in the name of a port. It would be more helpful if it would also look in description and long_description.

The result for 'port search foo' should be the same as for:

port echo name:foo or description:foo or long_description:foo

(Given that we eliminate duplicates, #15433).

[raimue@…]

Fixed in r37119.

[landonf@…]

This actually makes 'search' pretty useless if you use a common term. Take 'tex' as an example -- port search tex returns 391 ports, but almost none of them are related to TeX.

[landonf@…]

Cc Me!

[raimue@…]

Replying to landonf@macports.org:

This actually makes 'search' pretty useless if you use a common term. Take 'tex' as an example -- port search tex returns 391 ports, but almost none of them are related to TeX.

Hm, there is port echo name:tex to search in port names only, but that is not so obvious. How should it be changed?

We could add flags to specify the fields to search for:

port search tex
port search --name tex
port search --name --description --long_description tex

Or add an option to port echo to get more output than just the name.