search by suggests

[Elan Ruusamäe]

please add option to search by "Suggests:" field
additionally "what-suggests" alias would be nice

poldek:/all-avail> search -?
Usage: search [OPTION...] PATTERN [PACKAGE...]
Search packages

  -a, --all Search all described fields, the defaults are: -sd
  -c, --conflicts Search conflicts
  -d, --description Search descriptions
  -f, -l, --files Search file list
  -g, --group Search groups
  -L, --changelog Search changelogs
  -o, --obsoletes Search obsolences
  -p, --provides Search capabilities
      --perlre Threat PATTERN as Perl regular expression
  -r, --requires Search requirements
  -s, --summary Search summaries, urls and license
  -q Be quiet
  -v Be verbose.
  -?, --help Give this help list
      --usage Give a short usage message

  With --perlre pattern must be supplied as:
     <delimiter>perl-regexp<delimiter>[imsx]
  For example to find the packages containing foo.bar do:
     search --perlre /foo\.bar/
  See perlre(1) for more details.

  Defined aliases:
    rsearch "search --perlre"
    what-provides "search -p"
    what-requires "search -r"
poldek:/all-avail>

[Marcin Banasiak (megabajt)]

Commited in 122d4bf44198c008a5986ae01e9e3b54cff422e1.

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

you forgot to mention what is the syntax and poldek version since it's available

from currrent "th", poldek-0.30.1-17.x86_64 it does not seem to be available
poldek-0.32.0-1.x86_64 from th-test seems has it as "-S, --suggests Search suggests"

poldek:/all-avail> search -?
Usage: search [OPTION...] PATTERN [PACKAGE...]
Search packages

  -a, --all Search all described fields, the defaults are: -sd
  -c, --conflicts Search conflicts
  -d, --description Search descriptions
  -f, -l, --files Search file list
  -g, --group Search groups
  -L, --changelog Search changelogs
  -o, --obsoletes Search obsolences
  -p, --provides Search capabilities
      --perlre Threat PATTERN as Perl regular expression
  -r, --requires Search requirements
  -s, --summary Search summaries, urls and license
  -S, --suggests Search suggests
  -q Be quiet
  -v Be verbose.
  -?, --help Give this help list
      --usage Give a short usage message

  With --perlre pattern must be supplied as:
     <delimiter>perl-regexp<delimiter>[imsx]
  For example to find the packages containing foo.bar do:
     search --perlre /foo\.bar/
  See perlre(1) for more details.

  Defined aliases:
    rsearch "search --perlre"
    what-provides "search -p"
    what-requires

also the commit can not be found, googling results this page only
and git vcs is not setup for poldek project https://code.launchpad.net/poldek

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

and no alias

poldek:/all-avail> what-suggests
error: what-suggests: no such command