Re: Tool in base to query repositories for pre-built binaries

[Chuck Swiger <cswiger%mac.com@localhost>]

Hi, all--

On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:01 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> why don't we have in base a tool (pkgin? other?) that can query a
>> repository on whether a pre-built binary exists ? Something like
>> apt-cache search <package>.
> 
> It sounds useful. I suspect the reason that it does not exist is that
> no one has been motivated to write such a tool.

This sounds very much like FreeBSD ports' "pkg_add -r" capability:

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1

If pkgsrc doesn't have that, it might be nifty to add it...

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck