On 2023-04-14, Mike Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Usually when looking for a port to install I use `pkg_info -Q name` to > search for the the port. > > Strangely this does not completely work for PHP on OpenBSD 7.3: > > `pkg_info -Q php` does not list PHP 7.4.33 and related ports which are > clearly available. > > It seems that -Q only finds ports in packages-stable/, not packages/? > > pkg_info(1) does not seem to mention this limitation (or I have missed it).
That's what is meant by "in the first repository of the package search path" but it's not very obvious. If PKG_PATH is not set and you're on a release version, the pkg_add-based tools (including pkg_info) construct one starting with the packages-stable directory, in order that -stable updates are preferred over release packages. This is (mostly) described in pkg_add(1). You can search just the release packages with PKG_PATH=http://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/%v/packages/%a/ pkg_info -Q php > Is this working as intended? Yes though it's a little unfriendly. > Is there a better way to look for available packages? I never found pkg_info -Q to be a useful tool. Try pkglocate instead ("pkg_add pkglocatedb" first) which allows searching on an index that is built from <pkgname>:<filename> - as a result it lets you do a substring match on package names, not just on filenames. For a package which includes many files you'll get a lot of output lines, so something like "pkglocate moo | cut -d: -f1 | uniq" maybe useful, or "pkglocate moo | grep ^moo". And if you're looking for the package containing a particular binary, "pkglocate bin/moo" cuts out a lot of the useless stuff.
