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Thanks :) |
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Reason I thought this is relevant is: I'm basically looking for an API |
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to get an installed package's version/rev. I prefer that over making |
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syntactical assumptions on the way portage names packages. |
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Taking RPM for example, there's such an API: something like rpm -q |
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--queryformat '%{VERSION}|' PKG_NAME if I remember correctly.| |
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Amit |
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Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: |
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>> Given the following: |
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>> # qlist -Iv sys-apps/portage |
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>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 |
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>> How do I safely extract the "2.1.4.5"? |
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> That's probably offtopic for this list, since it really has nothing to |
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> do with portage itself. However, you probably want something like: |
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> qlist -Iv sys-apps/portage | sed -e 's:^.*-\([0-9][^-_]*\).*$:\1:' |
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