Getting port version

[Baho Utot]

On 07/04/16 12:39, Ben Woods wrote:
> On Monday, 4 July 2016, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com 
> <mailto: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
>
>
> -- 
>
> --
> From: Benjamin Woods
> woodsb02 at gmail.com <mailto:woodsb02 at gmail.com>

Ok I will give it a go