On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:03 -0800, Brian Harring wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 06:05:21PM +0200, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > > Given the following: > > # qlist -Iv sys-apps/portage > > sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 > > > > How do I safely extract the "2.1.4.5"? > > > > (I don't necessarily need to use qlist. Just want to get the version of an > > installed package within a bash script) > > This *really* should be folded into portageq offhand- it's the initial > step towards shifting versionator logic (yet another standalone > parser/comparison implementation) into the PM. > > Counter arguements? > ~brian
Yes. he said a bash script. portageq still takes a few seconds to load and invokes far far to many instructions for very simple info. The 3 execve's I just posted are still faster than one portageq call. So.. foo.c wins again. :p -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux
