On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 20:51 -0300, João Macaíba wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 01:07 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:36:14 -0300
> > João Macaíba <joao.macaiba@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > May someone give me some help on this ? How does portage do the
> > > searchs ? Walk into the ports tree and build some structure or store
> > > this info on some embedded database like berkeley db or sqlite ?
> >
> > You're probably looking for the portdbapi class defined in
> > pym/portage.py (or pym/portage/dbapi/porttree.py in 2.2), in particular
> > the cp_all(), cpv_all(), cp_list() and aux_get() methods.
> >
> > Marius
>
I think for searching you may find the xmatch function to be a very
versatile and useful tool. I think it is one of the more used functions
that porthole uses from portage.
> Thanks very much, Marius, for you help/time !
>
> I'll take a look at them.
>
> Best regards.
> --
> João Macaíba <joao.macaiba@gmail.com>
>
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