Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3784 mails)

[Jon Pennington <cowboydren@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, so it's kind of late (early?) to be looking for gurus, but
here's the bit.  I'm trying to fabricate my own YaST-style package
selection list (dren.sel).  I started the Eval CD, and did:

  # rpm -qa > dren.sel

Which is what I wanted to start with, 'cause it has a good selection
of packages I want, and not too many that I don't want.  Then I
sorted it:

  # sort eval.sel > dren.sel

Later on, I'll add the necessary header information, but for now, I
need to strip the extra RPM version data from the file.  It has a
list of RPMs like this:

  WindowMaker-0.64.0-63
  a2ps-4.13-74
  aaa_base-2001.5.22-0

But I need a list like this:

  WindowMaker
  a2ps
  aaa_base

So I need a quick and dirty way to strip every line of every
"-[0,9]*" and keep the rest of the name intact.  It's a bit tricker
since some packages don't use underscores but hyphens to seperate
parts of the package name, such as alsa-devel, which means you can't
just strip everything past the first hypen.  Whaddayathink?

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