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FS#857 - Searching installed packages for a string

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by wisam (potentials) - Thursday, 29 April 2004, 14:00 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.6 Widget
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The Query option does not include a search option such that included in Sync.

One can search for a string/word while using the sync option

pacman -Ss foobar

will return all the names and descriptions of packages in the repository which have the string "foobar" in their names or descriptions.

But why can't one search the installed packages for some string, this might be very usefull specially if you want to upgrade/remove a package which you don't know its exact name.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 17:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate

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