I think I wasn't clear enough when I said I wanted the full package name,
see the way I'm getting the info from Makefile is by simply extracting the
line, so if I just pulled PKGNAME, I would end up with things like this:
perl-${PERL5_VERS}

What I need is the full name (perl-5.6.1nb6), and I would love it if there
were a way for me to get that out of the Makefile without having to call any
intervening programs. I can already get the package name easily out of
/var/db/pkg/*, but comparing it to the version in the pkgsrc directories is
where it's getting to be difficult. That's why I asked if it would be
feasable to have something in the Makefile set to the whole name, ie
perl-5.6.1nb6.

Note that I haven't previously messed with any of the internals of how
pkgsrc does what it does, so I don't really know what I'm doing if it's
anything more involved than getting a string out of the Makefile ;)

A thought I just had, though, is that it would be nice for another reason:
currently, the package name seems to get made from PKGNAME, then appending
PERL5_VERS to it, then appending PERL5_PKG_VERS: Wouldn't it be better to
just set the name once and for all in the Makefile, and not having to
include values of other variables to get it? :-)

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:24:55AM +0100, Tomasz Luchowski wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 03:20:55PM -0800, Johnny Lam wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 06:10:06PM -0500, Sean Davis wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is it feasable to add something to <package>/Makefile that will contain the
> > > full string name of the package? for example, perl-5.6.1nb6? That would help
> > > me a lot, and I imagine other programs that check pkgsrc stuff would find it
> > > useful too.
> > 
> > ${PKGNAME} contains what you want.
> Sean: you could do "make show-var VARNAME=PKGNAME", but if you mentioned speed... ;-)
> 
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> /* Tomasz Luchowski <zuntum@netbsd.org> */

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