On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 17:16:28 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I guess there's some non-trivial translation process needed. > First I have to cut-off the Gentoo's internal patchlevel > (aka. same upstream release, but updated ebuild),
Try atom, from portage-utils, then use cut or awk to select the third item of output. > 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. -- Neil Bothwick Every morning is the dawn of a new error...
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