Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:12:22 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: extracting base names from package listing Message-ID: <200609202012.23996.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <20060920184533.98954.qmail@web35303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060920184533.98954.qmail@web35303.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 20 September 2006 19:45, Andrew Gould wrote: > 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? What you actually want is the origins, pkg_info -oq "*" will give you that. What I think is a better idea is to get a list of the leaf origins, and let the ports sytem sort out the rest itself - you may end up with a cleaner set of dependencies. See the thread "Moving to new PC" above for a way to get these from portmanager.
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