On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:21:07PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:25:11AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Upstream versions with hyphens work fine, only the last hyphen is
> > removed to extract the Debian revision. I've maintained a package with
> > one for ages and never tripped over a buggy tool.
> >
>
> While we're at it, what is a good way of extracting the upstream version out
> of a version string that contains the Debian revision?
If you've already got the version string itself isolated, here's a way
to do it in the shell:
Assuming the version number is in $VERSION...
${VERSION%-*}
This is POSIX/SUSv3-conformant syntax.
$ man ash
/Parameter Expansion
...to learn more.
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Debian GNU/Linux | straight from being marked as
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