portscout - new distfile scanner

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Tue Apr 4 17:32:31 UTC 2006


On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:42:26AM +0100, Shaun Amott wrote:
> The version string used is from the port's DISTNAME or DISTVERSION
> values; the version in ports format is not much use, unfortunately -
> which means portscout has to deal with all the weird and wonderful
> schemes vendors come up with.

I hope you're using pkg_version -t (my first attempt at writing something
like this a year or two ago used that).  If not, you're going to go crazy.

mcl


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