* 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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list