On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:58 PM, clemens fischer<ino-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > is there a regular expression describing the version comparison > algorithm in pacman/lib/libalpm/package.c::alpm_pkg_vercmp()? > > I have a pacman wrapper (bash script) that needs to determine the > package name to give to pacman given a directory name, because it is > possible to give globs to filenames, but not to pacman. I cannot use > "pacman -[QS]s <string>", because sometimes I want to glob just package > names, not descriptions. > > So basically I don't want the actual version comparison, only the > removal of the version suffix including our release number. > > Could you give an example of what you are trying to do?
