Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Thu Jul 5 00:37:19 UTC 2012


On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:34:13 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > As a first prototype, the database could just be a text file
> > and the look up program could be a shell script that uses
> > grep and sed.
> Right-O. The db should almost certainly be updated and distributed as
> part of the (already automated) INDEX generation and distribution process.

There are already tools in the ports tree that do the
search. Personally, I use portsearch. Tweaking them to use INDEX (or
tweaking the makefile to generate their database with INDEX) should be
straightforward.

	<mike
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