* Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Try atom, from portage-utils, then use cut or awk to select the third
> item of output.

Ah, cool. That helps a lot :)

> > then map
> > the upstream's versioning schemes to my normalized one.
> > *If* Gentoo strictly follows the upstream's versioning scheme
> > and only adds some -r* for ebuild revisions, then the first step
> > should be easy,
> 
> Gentoo follows upstream as closely as possible, but not when their
> versioning breaks the Gentoo rules. For example, dovecot-1.1.rc8 
> becomes dovecot-1.1_rc8.

Are there any formal rules for that ?


cu
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