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 scr

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 scr

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

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 wi