On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:54:42PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ 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.

I haven't tried lintpkgsrc yet, but I will now. What I want pkgver to evolve
into is a decent package maintenance thing, hopefully :)

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