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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-devhelp@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-devhelp] Re: How do I get the major+minor version of a package?
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:03:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <korpip$1pn$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A733C8.60009@gentoo.org>

On 30/05/13 14:11, Justin wrote:
> On 30/05/13 13:06, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> Let's suppose that $PV is "2.5.1". How would I get the "2.5" in it in an
>> ebuild?  I know about ${PV:0:3}, but this breaks if $PV is, say,
>> "2.13.1".  In that case, I would get "2.1" instead of "2.13".
>>
>> I've looked in the various eclasses if there's some utility function
>> that get me the major and minor version, but can't find anything.
>>
>
> hi,
>
> take a look into the versionator.eclass [1]. You need to use
> get_version_component_range()
>
> justin
>
>
> 1 http://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/versionator.eclass/index.html

Yep, does the just perfectly.  Thanks!



      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-07  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-30 11:06 [gentoo-devhelp] How do I get the major+minor version of a package? Nikos Chantziaras
2013-05-30 11:11 ` Justin
2013-06-07  5:03   ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]

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