mdarge 0 Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 Hi, if I use emerge --search I don't get what I want. How do I get: emerge -a media-sound/* So a list of all packages in media-sound (dev-libs/ or any other branch) is shown. Link to post Share on other sites
0 Solution cardinal 76 Posted July 17, 2019 Solution Report Share Posted July 17, 2019 Reference the man page for emerge: ACTIONS --search , -s If you want to include the category into the search string, prepend an @ Example : List all packages in media-sound category: $ emerge -s "@media-sound" Link to post Share on other sites
0 lazlo.vii 10 Posted July 17, 2019 Report Share Posted July 17, 2019 You could bypass Portage entirely: ls -l /var/git/meta-repo/kits/media-kit/media-libs/ I know that doesn't answer your question about searching Portage but it is very simple and straight forward. Link to post Share on other sites
0 mdarge 0 Posted September 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2019 On 7/17/2019 at 6:54 AM, lazlo.vii said: You could bypass Portage entirely: ls -l /var/git/meta-repo/kits/media-kit/media-libs/ I know that doesn't answer your question about searching Portage but it is very simple and straight forward. Your answer is quite good but the other one is better. Link to post Share on other sites
0 vchipk985 0 Posted September 11, 2019 Report Share Posted September 11, 2019 Side note: You can use eix [app-portage/eix] too. Link to post Share on other sites
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Hi, if I use emerge --search I don't get what I want. How do I get:
emerge -a media-sound/*
So a list of all packages in media-sound (dev-libs/ or any other branch) is shown.
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