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Date: 21 Nov 2000 21:38:31 -0700
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"Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:

> Ummm.  pkg_version(1) was designed to do the first part.

"Ummm."?

This is about as useful as my `pkg_info -aI | cut -d "-" -f 1' for
what I wanted to do.

> sobomax devised a way to do just this, which is almost in place now
> (we need a commit to bsd.port.mk).

Great, can't wait.

Thanks for the info.


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