Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-17 Thread Mike M
On Sunday 16 March 2003 23:11, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Don't embarrass yourselves by filing a bug on this. :) > > I'm happy to embarrass myself. :-) So, is anyone going to file a bug, > or shall I? Reminds me of all those times when there is silence in response to the question, "Are there any qu

RE: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > From the man page. > > "Seperate arguments can be used to specified multiĀ­ple > search patterns > > that are and'd together." > > > > 'apt-cache search server' and 'apt-cache search server ftp' produce > > quite different amounts of hits, the space does not 'stop' it. > > OK, I may not

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:04:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 02:20:21 + (UTC) > Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the >> > correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: >> > >

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:25:49 +1100 "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From the man page. > "Seperate arguments can be used to specified multiĀ­ple search patterns > that are and'd together." > > 'apt-cache search server' and 'apt-cache search server ftp' produce > quite different amount

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:04:40 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the phrase "gimp gif" is not a regular expression. What happened here > is that apt-cache searched for the pattern "gimp" and stopped after it > saw the space. It didn't even see "gif". Further, it looked for the pattern g-i-m-p, so it

RE: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > > the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the > > > correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: > > > > > > search search performs a full text search on all available > > > package > > > files for the regex pattern given. It searchs the package > > >

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 02:20:21 + (UTC) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the > > correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: > > > > search search performs a full text search on all available > > package > > fi

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:46:46 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There was recently a question about which .deb added GIF capability to the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: search search perf

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:46:46 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was recently a question about which .deb added GIF capability to > the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the correct > answer. The man page for apt-cache says: > > search search performs a f