Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 12:47:54 -0400 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Getting port version Message-ID: <db244fc0-fd05-a7a3-570d-0ad8dfff71a0@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOc73CABRSBdykdjYRJaHFaZyhq0ejC3iyiH-_2E34RSJVBJmQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <d5212e65-513d-38f3-529d-526b899600b6@columbus.rr.com> <CAOc73CABRSBdykdjYRJaHFaZyhq0ejC3iyiH-_2E34RSJVBJmQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 07/04/16 12:39, Ben Woods wrote:
> On Monday, 4 July 2016, Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com
> <mailto:baho-utot@columbus.rr.com>> wrote:
>
> I am creating a bourne script ( I would use python but that is not
> in base ) to build packages.
>
> Synth, poudiere etc will not work, this is for a raspberry pi 2
> and those tools don't run on the platform
>
> I need to get the port version from the port
>
> 1. so I can construct a string and have a look see if that
> port is already in the repository
>
> 2. I want to know what version I am building
>
> I have tried:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> for a in "dns/unbound ports-mgmt/pkg lang/perl5.20" ; do
> VERSION="$( grep PORTVERSION= /usr/ports/${a}/Makefile )"
>
> printf "Package: %s Version: %s\n" "${a}" "${VERSION##*=}"
>
> done
>
>
> That fails because all ports don't follow that, for instance:
>
> lang/perl5.20 has PORTVERSION= ${PERL_VERSION}
>
> ports-mgmt/pkg has DISTVERSION= <what ever>
>
> Is there some other way I can fetch the version from the Makefile?
>
>
> I think it should be sufficient to run this from within the port
> directory:
> $ make -VPORTVERSION
>
> You can use that technique to print out any other Makefile variable
> values.
>
> Regards,
> Ben
>
>
> --
>
> --
> From: Benjamin Woods
> woodsb02@gmail.com <mailto:woodsb02@gmail.com>
Ok I will give it a go
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