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Re: Determening if a package is installed?



Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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>>    The problem I keep running into is that I am unable to determine
>> if a package is installed using the pkgsrc path. Everything assumes
>> that I have the package name, which isn't always true (for instance,
>> the installed package is called py24-psycopg2).
>>
> 
> Try this:
> 
>       cd /usr/pkgsrc/$x && make show-var VARNAME=PKGNAME
> 
> You may have to use a regular expression to strip off the version
> suffix; for my scripts, I don't need to.

   Exactly what I was looking for. Many thanks!

-- 
Kind regards,
Jan Danielsson


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