extracting base names from package listing

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:12:22PM +0100, RW wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 September 2006 19:45, Andrew Gould wrote:
> > pkg_info provides a nice listing of package names that
> > include version numbers.  I'd like to have a list of
> > the names without the version numbers so that I can
> > write a script to install the newer versions after a
> > clean installation.
> >
> > Looking at the package names, I'm having a hard time
> > coming up with an algorithm for separating the package
> > names from the version numbers.  Many package names
> > have dashes (postgresql-server), and some have letters
> > in the version numbers (libid3tag-0.15.1b).
> >
> > Does anyone have a good way of separating the package
> > names from the version numbers?
> >
> > Is there a better way of identifying and installing a
> > set of packages after a clean installation?
> 
> What you actually want is the origins, pkg_info -oq "*" will give you that.

Or look up the package name in the INDEX file.

Kris
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