Subject: Re: pkg/15815: new package pkgver
To: None <dive@endersgame.net>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/05/2002 15:54:42
[ On , March 5, 2002 at 19:41:15 (-0000), dive@endersgame.net wrote: ]
> Subject: pkg/15815: new package pkgver
>
> 	pkgver is a program that compares the RCS ids of the Makefile used when a package
> 	was installed with the RCS id of the Makefile currently in pkgsrc, and reporting
> 	mismatches. It is intended to perform the same function as pkg_chk -i, but is
> 	exponentially faster as it's written in C not shell script. Support is planned for
> 	an option to compare package version numbers instead of RCS ids in the next release.

Hmm... I don't find "lintpkgsrc -P /usr/pkgsrc -i" to be too painful to
run nightly, and it already compares actual version numbers, not RCS IDs.

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