[arch-general] pacman: -Ss search results weird
Hi, regarding the recent 'default syslog' discussion I wanted to check what is Arch up to now...I came to interesting results concerning pacman's search behavior. [marek@beruska ~]$ pacman -Ss syslog core/perl 5.12.3-1 [12.06 MB] (base) [installed] A highly capable, feature-rich programming language core/syslog-ng 3.2.2-2 [0.21 MB] (base) Next-generation syslogd with advanced networking and filtering capabilities extra/metalog 1.0-1 [0.02 MB] Metalog is a modern replacement for syslogd and klogd community/perl-device-modem 1.53-1 [0.04 MB] Perl extension to talk to modem devices connected via serial port community/rsyslog 5.8.0-1 [0.25 MB] [installed] An enhanced multi-threaded syslogd with a focus on security and reliability [marek@beruska ~]$ I thought pacman -Ss "string" searches packages' name and desc for the string, I wonder why the perl things show up? Cheers & happy Eastern! :) -- Marek Otahal :o)
* Marek Otahal
Hi, regarding the recent 'default syslog' discussion I wanted to check what is Arch up to now...I came to interesting results concerning pacman's search behavior.
[marek@beruska ~]$ pacman -Ss syslog core/perl 5.12.3-1 [12.06 MB] (base) [installed] A highly capable, feature-rich programming language core/syslog-ng 3.2.2-2 [0.21 MB] (base) Next-generation syslogd with advanced networking and filtering capabilities extra/metalog 1.0-1 [0.02 MB] Metalog is a modern replacement for syslogd and klogd community/perl-device-modem 1.53-1 [0.04 MB] Perl extension to talk to modem devices connected via serial port community/rsyslog 5.8.0-1 [0.25 MB] [installed] An enhanced multi-threaded syslogd with a focus on security and reliability [marek@beruska ~]$
I thought pacman -Ss "string" searches packages' name and desc for the string, I wonder why the perl things show up? Cheers & happy Eastern! :)
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Marek Otahal :o)
I guess it's because of the fact, that e.g. pacman -Si perl|grep syslog shows an output. It's the same for every of the packages which are being found.
Am 22.04.2011 23:18, schrieb Marek Otahal:
Hi, regarding the recent 'default syslog' discussion I wanted to check what is Arch up to now...I came to interesting results concerning pacman's search behavior.
[marek@beruska ~]$ pacman -Ss syslog core/perl 5.12.3-1 [12.06 MB] (base) [installed] A highly capable, feature-rich programming language core/syslog-ng 3.2.2-2 [0.21 MB] (base) Next-generation syslogd with advanced networking and filtering capabilities extra/metalog 1.0-1 [0.02 MB] Metalog is a modern replacement for syslogd and klogd community/perl-device-modem 1.53-1 [0.04 MB] Perl extension to talk to modem devices connected via serial port community/rsyslog 5.8.0-1 [0.25 MB] [installed] An enhanced multi-threaded syslogd with a focus on security and reliability [marek@beruska ~]$
I thought pacman -Ss "string" searches packages' name and desc for the string, I wonder why the perl things show up? Cheers& happy Eastern! :)
It's because the perl package provides perl-sys-syslog. -- Regards, Richard Schütz
On Friday 22 of April 2011 23:23:03 Richard Schütz wrote:
Am 22.04.2011 23:18, schrieb Marek Otahal:
Hi, regarding the recent 'default syslog' discussion I wanted to check what is Arch up to now...I came to interesting results concerning pacman's search behavior.
[marek@beruska ~]$ pacman -Ss syslog core/perl 5.12.3-1 [12.06 MB] (base) [installed]
A highly capable, feature-rich programming language
core/syslog-ng 3.2.2-2 [0.21 MB] (base)
Next-generation syslogd with advanced networking and filtering
capabilities extra/metalog 1.0-1 [0.02 MB]
Metalog is a modern replacement for syslogd and klogd
community/perl-device-modem 1.53-1 [0.04 MB]
Perl extension to talk to modem devices connected via serial port
community/rsyslog 5.8.0-1 [0.25 MB] [installed]
An enhanced multi-threaded syslogd with a focus on security and
reliability [marek@beruska ~]$
I thought pacman -Ss "string" searches packages' name and desc for the string, I wonder why the perl things show up? Cheers& happy Eastern! :)
It's because the perl package provides perl-sys-syslog. Thank you both, so pacman searches deeper than I expected. --
Marek Otahal :o)
On 04/22/2011 04:47 PM, Marek Otahal wrote:
On Friday 22 of April 2011 23:23:03 Richard Schütz wrote:
Am 22.04.2011 23:18, schrieb Marek Otahal:
Hi, regarding the recent 'default syslog' discussion I wanted to check what is Arch up to now...I came to interesting results concerning pacman's search behavior.
[marek@beruska ~]$ pacman -Ss syslog core/perl 5.12.3-1 [12.06 MB] (base) [installed]
A highly capable, feature-rich programming language
core/syslog-ng 3.2.2-2 [0.21 MB] (base)
Next-generation syslogd with advanced networking and filtering
capabilities extra/metalog 1.0-1 [0.02 MB]
Metalog is a modern replacement for syslogd and klogd
community/perl-device-modem 1.53-1 [0.04 MB]
Perl extension to talk to modem devices connected via serial port
community/rsyslog 5.8.0-1 [0.25 MB] [installed]
An enhanced multi-threaded syslogd with a focus on security and
reliability [marek@beruska ~]$
I thought pacman -Ss "string" searches packages' name and desc for the string, I wonder why the perl things show up? Cheers& happy Eastern! :)
It's because the perl package provides perl-sys-syslog. Thank you both, so pacman searches deeper than I expected.
Yes, pacman -Ss searches the -Qi for every package, not just the name and short description.
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Jonathan Beatty
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Marek Otahal
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Richard Schütz
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Uli Armbruster