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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: finding package versions in use
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:29:11
Message-Id: 20080607182822.GA20295@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: finding package versions in use by Neil Bothwick
1 * Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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3 > Try atom, from portage-utils, then use cut or awk to select the third
4 > item of output.
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6 Ah, cool. That helps a lot :)
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8 > > then map
9 > > the upstream's versioning schemes to my normalized one.
10 > > *If* Gentoo strictly follows the upstream's versioning scheme
11 > > and only adds some -r* for ebuild revisions, then the first step
12 > > should be easy,
13 >
14 > Gentoo follows upstream as closely as possible, but not when their
15 > versioning breaks the Gentoo rules. For example, dovecot-1.1.rc8
16 > becomes dovecot-1.1_rc8.
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18 Are there any formal rules for that ?
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21 cu
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24 Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/
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26 Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
27 http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce
28 Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
29 http://patches.metux.de/
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: finding package versions in use Espen Hustad <espen.hustad@×××××.com>