Subject: Re: IMPORTANT user-visible change to pkgsrc related to config files
To: Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org>
From: Tomasz Luchowski <zuntum@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/26/2001 00:24:55
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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