Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 22:13:05 +0000 (UTC) From: Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki+freebsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version number of openjdk6 port Message-ID: <ino19h$pgs$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <4D9F1E05.4070900@FreeBSD.org> <201104081511.47184.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <4D9F667A.90302@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:48:10 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > Hmm, I can probably workaround this then using an explicit comparison > rule (so it doesn't use >0). It would be nice if we had an official way > to match a package with "any version". Perhaps "pkg_info -E 'pkg-*'" if > we assume that package names can never have dashes in them (to avoid > problems, with, say, 'foo-*' matching both foo-1.0 and foo-bar-1.0.). You can use regular expression. Everything after last hyphen is a version. pkg_info -EX "^xorg-[^-]+$" > Oh, we already have those types of packages: > > xorg-7.5 X.Org complete distribution metaport xorg-apps-7.5_1 > X.org apps meta-port > > The problem is how can software generically say "is any version of the > foo package installed". It would seem we don't support that currently?
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