Getting port version

[Ben Woods]

On Monday, 4 July 2016, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:

> I am creating a bourne script ( I would use python but that is not in base
> ) to build packages.
>
> Synth, poudiere etc will not work, this is for a raspberry pi 2 and those
> tools don't run on the platform
>
> I need to get the port version from the port
>
>     1.    so I can construct a string and have a look see if that port is
> already in the repository
>
>     2.    I want to know what version I am building
>
> I have tried:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> for a in "dns/unbound ports-mgmt/pkg lang/perl5.20" ; do
>     VERSION="$( grep PORTVERSION= /usr/ports/${a}/Makefile )"
>
>     printf "Package: %s Version: %s\n" "${a}" "${VERSION##*=}"
>
> done
>
>
> That fails because all ports don't follow that, for instance:
>
>     lang/perl5.20 has         PORTVERSION=    ${PERL_VERSION}
>
>     ports-mgmt/pkg  has    DISTVERSION=    <what ever>
>
> Is there some other way I can fetch the version from the Makefile?
>

I think it should be sufficient to run this from within the port directory:
$ make -VPORTVERSION

You can use that technique to print out any other Makefile variable values.

Regards,
Ben


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