Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:45:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: extracting base names from package listing Message-ID: <20060920184533.98954.qmail@web35303.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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pkg_info provides a nice listing of package names that include version numbers. I'd like to have a list of the names without the version numbers so that I can write a script to install the newer versions after a clean installation. Looking at the package names, I'm having a hard time coming up with an algorithm for separating the package names from the version numbers. Many package names have dashes (postgresql-server), and some have letters in the version numbers (libid3tag-0.15.1b). Does anyone have a good way of separating the package names from the version numbers? Is there a better way of identifying and installing a set of packages after a clean installation? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Andrew L. Gould
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