0verbs

Download (local copy of the mirror's package list) and search for a OpenBSD package. No need to use the package searching (or set PKG_PATH) as it takes too long to list and find your query and you are required to have internet up and running. The program is not making a database from local ports tree programs. It creates database for the pre-compiled binaries that you will use with pkg_add to install the particular program that you have searched with 0verbs.

Download this fellow and run it with the package you want. The first run downloads the mirror's small SHA256 package list, then searches it:

python3 0verbs.py curl

# searches are case-insensitive
python3 0verbs.py LibreOffice

# narrow the search with several words (a package must contain all of them)
python3 0verbs.py php curl

# or list packages containing either word (a regular expression, see below)
python3 0verbs.py 'php|perl'

# a word with regular expression syntax (any of ^$*?()[]{}|\) is a regex, like pacman -Ss
python3 0verbs.py '^curl-.*'      # names starting with curl-, so not curlftpfs
python3 0verbs.py '^(php|perl)'   # names starting with php or perl
python3 0verbs.py '^php.*curl'    # names starting with php, with curl later on
python3 0verbs.py '^py3-.*yaml'   # Python 3 modules about yaml
python3 0verbs.py 'gtk\+'         # a plain +, as in gtk+; \ makes + ordinary

# to list the package name and sha256 sum
python3 0verbs.py --sha256 curl

# to list the exact package, newest version: curl, but not curl-doc or libcurl
python3 0verbs.py -e curl            # or --exact curl

# several exact packages at once
python3 0verbs.py -e curl wget

# the same package with every version on the mirror, as a regular expression
python3 0verbs.py '^curl-[0-9]'

# re-download the package lists (e.g. after upgrading OpenBSD, or for new security updates)
python3 0verbs.py --update

# to list all of the available releases
python3 0verbs.py --list-releases

# or use the slow option
pkg_info -Q curl

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Trying it from macOS/Linux/other BSD

Outside OpenBSD the script downloads the latest release and maps your CPU to the matching OpenBSD architecture (Apple Silicon -> aarch64, Intel -> amd64). Pick another release or architecture with --release and --arch:

python3 0verbs.py --release 7.8 --arch amd64 'curl'

Like pkg_add, the script also downloads packages-stable, where a release's security and bug-fix updates go, and labels those results (stable). As pkg_add would install the update, a release package that has one is left out, so curl shows curl-8.19.0 (stable) but not curl-8.16.0. The packages-stable list keeps growing, so the script reminds you to run --update once it is more than a week old. Each download is kept under ~/.cache/0verbs/<release>/<folder>/<arch>/SHA256, the same path it has on the mirror, so switching between releases doesn't download again. Without --release/--arch, searches use the list you downloaded most recently (on OpenBSD, always the installed release). Older versions saved a single ~/.package_list, which you can delete.

Add it to your shell configuration file:

# Specifying function named "ss"
ss() {
  python3 0verbs.py "$@"
}

# and use it
ss 'curl'

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Adding package suggestions for misspelt string such as firfox

Copy and paste the following snippet and you are ready to rock:

git apply suggestPackages.diff

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pkg_locate/locate are better ?

If you plan to use 0verbs it's because it creates database for the pre-compiled binaries that you will install with pkg_add. It doesn't traverses the local ports tree like pkg_locate/locate does. It doesn't replaces your regular local tree port searches with Makefile(s). It's up to you what you would like to use - ports vs pre-compiled binaries :)