Re: [gentoo-user] get unversioned list of installed packages without eix or esearch

[Jure Varlec]

On Monday 26 June 2006 08:44, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> I was of course considering something like this:
>
> # cd /var/db/pkg && ls * |
> ${some_magic_regular_expression_to_remove_version}
>
> But I have found it impossible to make a regular expression that does break
> for at least one of those:

sed -r 's/-[^-]+(-r[0-9]+)*$//'
It works on the examples you provided. I don't think anything in the tree 
uses '-' in the version number, unless it's a case of '-rN'. But you never 
know, of course, so I always double check all package names I ever filter 
through anything.

Regards
Jure