Opened 15 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#18632 closed defect (invalid)

Finding perl ports that are part of other ports is too hard

Reported by: scott@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.7.0
Keywords: Cc: MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez), cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)
Port:

Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt))

I love MacPorts, it makes my life easier, sometimes, it makes my life harder. What is the solution to solve this?

Example Case:

port search p5-Tie-RDBM
No match for p5-Tie-RDBM found

Search MacPorts
http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=rdbm
Nothing

Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/~lds/Tie-DBI-1.02/lib/Tie/RDBM.pm
Finds it with no issue

Now I am stuck, do I make a port for it? I did, I think I wasted my time.

port search p5-Tie-DBI
p5-tie-dbi @1.02 (perl)
    Nie:DBI This distribution contains Tie::DBI and Tie::RDBM

I do not really know what to suggest, I brought it up on the mail list a while back. There was opposition to adding more data to the portfile, opposition to my suggestion to add another field for the purpose of listing ports that contain other ports.

At this point, I would at least suggest, that in cases like this, some "stub" record be added to the web based port search. Ideally, it should all be handled in the ports on the command line.

CPAN makes me want to barf, almost all the time, CPAN wins in this case, as it finds what I need, on the web, or in the command line.

Change History (5)

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)

Cc: mcalhoun@… added

Cc Me!

comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Milestone: MacPorts Future

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Description: modified (diff)

comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

I'm not sure what we are supposed to do here. Your search was too specific. Searching for "RDBM" finds the port you were looking for.

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

Cc: egall@… added

Cc Me!

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