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Date:      Tue, 4 Apr 2006 12:32:30 -0500
From:      linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To:        shaun@inerd.com
Cc:        "\[LoN\]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: portscout - new distfile scanner
Message-ID:  <20060404173230.GA8465@soaustin.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060404104226.GD751@picobyte.net>
References:  <20060403190532.GA966@picobyte.net> <20060404094549.GA751@picobyte.net> <44324AD3.8070809@gmx.de> <20060404104226.GD751@picobyte.net>

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On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:42:26AM +0100, Shaun Amott wrote:
> The version string used is from the port's DISTNAME or DISTVERSION
> values; the version in ports format is not much use, unfortunately -
> which means portscout has to deal with all the weird and wonderful
> schemes vendors come up with.

I hope you're using pkg_version -t (my first attempt at writing something
like this a year or two ago used that).  If not, you're going to go crazy.

mcl



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