Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 01:29:04 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package naming conventions (?) Message-ID: <37428.1640942944@segfault.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <CABObuOpcsG=hgLTTqm-Pw9PMWrS__5uLohY4JWwJvq9O-G1fJA@mail.gmail.com>
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"parv/freebsd" <parv.0zero9+freebsd@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know if I should file a bug report on this or not. Feedback wo=
uld
>> be appreciated.
>>
>> There is a small problem with what appears to be the "standard" naming
>> convention(s) for package names.
>
>...
>
>You mean a *de facto*, not a written policy, on the '"standard"' conventi=
on,
>which is borne out to of package versions just happen to follow a pattern=
,
>until now.?
Yes. It is apparently a convention. Not clearly in any sense a "standard=
".
>> In general, full package names end with a version number which consists
>> exclusively of digits, periods, commas, and underscores.
>
>Some times there are letters too.
It would appear so, unfortunately.
>> Thus the
>> *generalized* (non-version-specific) package names for all currently
>> installed packages may, generally speaking, be derived thusly:
>>
>> pkg info | awk '{print $1}' | sed -E 's/-([0-9]|,|_|\.)+$//'
>
>You could combine all the choices in a single character class:
>/-[0-9,_.]+$/.
Yes. Silly me. My bad. I was in a hurry.
>> (I am not aware of any easier way to generate such a list of the base n=
ames
>> of all currently installed packages. If I have just missed how to do t=
hat
>> more easily, please let me know.)
>
>
>Check out "raw" output via '--raw' option of pkg-info(8); note the "name"
>field. There may be some incantation for pkg-query(8) to obtain the
>information
>more directly.
Ummm... Invalid option.
# pkg info --raw
Usage: pkg info <pkg-name>
pkg info -a
pkg info [-AbBDdefIklOqRrs] [-Cgix] <pkg-name>
pkg info [-AbBDdfIlqRrs] -F <pkg-file>
For more information see 'pkg help info'.
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