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On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:30:35 +0200 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:40:40 +0100 |
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> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 23:31:24 +0200 |
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> > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > > best_version Takes exactly one package dependency specification |
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> > > > as an argument. If a matching package is installed, prints |
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> > > > the category, package name and version of the highest matching |
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> > > > version. |
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> > > |
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> > > What happens if no matching package is installed? Is it then even |
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> > > legal to call the function then? |
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> > |
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> > If there's no matching package installed, it doesn't print anything. |
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> Is it guaranteed to return with 0 exit status then? |
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Paludis returns non-zero if there's nothing installed, and zero if a |
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match is found. Don't know if Portage does the same, or whether we want |
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to guarantee this behaviour. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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