Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-user] new package notification

[Matthew Kennedy]

Alexander Futasz <acid.punk@×××.net> writes:

> On 10 Sep 2002 11:30:38 -0500
> Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@g.o> wrote:
>
> >     #!/bin/bash
> >
> >     history=/tmp/package.history
> >
> >     available_packages() {
> >         ( qpkg -I -nc && qpkg -U -nc ) |uniq |sort
> >     }
> >
> >     if [ -f ${history} ]
> >     then
> >         available_packages >${history}.new
> >         diff ${history} ${history}.new
> >         mv -f ${history}.new ${history}
> >     else
> >         echo "First time run. Building history..."
> >         available_packages >${history}
> >     fi
>
> -     ( qpkg -I -nc && qpkg -U -nc ) |uniq |sort
> +     ( qpkg -I -nc && qpkg -U -nc ) |sort |uniq
>
> $ whatis uniq
> uniq                 (1)  - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file
>

Doh. And here's another improvement:

   available_packages() {
       qpkg -U -nc | sort | uniq
   }

(Since you already know about the packages you have installed and thus
wouldn't be interested in them)

Matt

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