Looking to search ebuilds (solved)

IRQsRFun · Last edited by IRQsRFun on Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:22 am; edited 1 time in total

Since http://packages.gentoo.org is offline, I was wondering if there already exists some tool to search or browse the ebuilds for the description and other information. This is probably covered somewhere else, but I could not find it. Any help would be appreciated.

sternklang · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject:

Hi,

There are multiple tools in Portage for indexing and searching ebuilds very rapidly, including search of description:

app-portage/eix
app-portage/esearch

Also, if you have app-misc/beagle installed, there is a system-wide crawler for ebuilds that you can enable, so you would get ebuild results in your beagle search.

intmain · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:49 pm Post subject:

What about http://gentoo-portage.com ?

likewhoa · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject:

truc · Advocate Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 3045

there is also app-portage/portage-utils

IRQsRFun · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:22 am Post subject: How about porthole

I just found an ebuild that fits my needs - porthole

In content, it is very close to what I was looking for. However, from a text window is segfaults (~amd64). When I am in KDE it appears to work for browsing.

Thank you everybody's for your response.

dol-sen · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:28 pm Post subject:

That ebuild for porthole is for an out of date version. Unfortunately I have been so busy this past year I've been unable to get the next version finished for a release. You can however use the cvs version if you like. There are a number of updates and feature improvements as well as a few feature additions. There are some bugs to track down, but is quite stable. It also does not need to be installed to run. It can run from the local cvs checkout.

from a terminal