extracting base names from package listing

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gould
pkg_info provides a nice listing of package names that include version numbers. I'd like to have a list of the names without the version numbers so that I can write a script to install the newer versions after a clean installation. Looking at the package names, I'm having a hard time coming up

Re: extracting base names from package listing

2006-09-20 Thread RW
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 19:45, Andrew Gould wrote: pkg_info provides a nice listing of package names that include version numbers. I'd like to have a list of the names without the version numbers so that I can write a script to install the newer versions after a clean installation.

Re: extracting base names from package listing

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gould
Thanks. --- RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 19:45, Andrew Gould wrote: pkg_info provides a nice listing of package names that include version numbers. I'd like to have a list of the names without the version numbers so that I can write a script to install

Re: extracting base names from package listing

2006-09-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:12:22PM +0100, RW wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 19:45, Andrew Gould wrote: pkg_info provides a nice listing of package names that include version numbers. I'd like to have a list of the names without the version numbers so that I can write a script to