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From: Chris Smith <chris.rs@×××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl interface to portage
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 19:24:24
Message-Id: 200303040800.12017.chris.rs@xtra.co.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl interface to portage by Oleg Letsinsky
1 On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:17, Oleg Letsinsky wrote:
2 > I want the script to be
3 > more or less universal and "right" - i.e. no hardwired paths, so I need
4 > the right (i.e. "already existing") way for a perl script to get a
5 > portage variable - PORTDIR, DISTDIR is enough.
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7 Try parsing the output of "emerge info" its fast and has almost everything you
8 need in it. Just a quick grep and awk should do it :D
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