From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-08-23T08:29:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rpa-base 0.2.1pre1

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:38:35AM +0900, James Britt wrote:
> On the next installation, all went well.  I poked around a bit with rpa
> install, and was happy to see that rpa will not install a library if I
> already have it.

Yup, the file conflict detection system should handle it OK.

> Querying the repository is easy, too.  Am I correct that
> 
>  rpa query .
> 
> returns a list of all available ports?

Either that or just
  rpa query

> Is there a way to use globs or regexen?  If I run
> 
>  rpa  query  web
> 
> I get back more than just ports with 'web' in their name.

It searches both the name and the description.
If you do  rpa query -x web  you'll get quite a long output showing that 
the matches often happen in the description.
The argument to query is interpreted as a regexp; if you try 
 rpa query -x e..mpl
you'll see it matches 'example', 'The implementation', 
'sythesize implicit', etc, in the names/descriptions.

There are a few pending usability issues in the command-line tool, but
so far I've focused on the basics (transactions & stuff). Improving the
user interface is on my TODO, and I will address this issue at least
partially when I get to write rpaconf (a system-wide configuration
system, inspired in debconf).

> Anyway, looks good.

Thanks a lot for trying it out. Plz tell me if you find any other bug,
I hope I'll be able to fix it too :)
Bug reports concerning the packages are welcome too; however, I cannot
guarantee I'll be able to correct them as quickly as the problems which
affect rpa-base because maintaining the whole archive represents quite
a bit of work...

PS: I have to warn you preemptively about extensions and win32 :P
it is currently impossible to install them unless you have a working
C toolchain, which is not very common in win32... I'm planning to add
full support for binary repositories for 0.3.0 (it's already in the
code but I haven't exposed it yet cause I have yet to implement
port/package signatures).

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