Subject: Re: P.S. [was: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc]
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/03/2000 14:45:06
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> >         iff the first components match, compare the second.
> > 	
> > 	It was a couple of minutes work in perl, and dropped into
> > 	the latest lintpkgsrc.pl.
> 
> IC... lintpkgsrc.pl is by far not all, though.  Where you really need to
> add this for it to be used everywhere is in deweycmp() in
> pkg_install/lib/str.c.
> 
	Yup - but I didn't want to touch the real tools until everyone
	was happy :)

> It's put into pkg_info from there, to be used in pkgsrc, and also in the
> other pkg_* utils (that noone here ever uses anyways :).

	If people are OK with the nb<X> suffix then I'll be happy to
	make the changes to pkg_install/lib/str.c and Packages.txt,
	then ask releng to pull them up...

		David/absolute