Re: New package format

So, if anyone cares, here's the script that runs great to change the
package names over:

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#!/bin/sh
ipkg update;
for i in `ipkg status|grep opie|cut -d" " -f2`;
  do
  ipkg remove $i;
  ipkg install $i;
done;
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Thanks, Chris.
 -M@

On 22 Feb 2002, Chris Larson wrote:

> ipkg update; for i in `ipkg status|grep opie|cut -d" " -f2`; do ipkg
> remove $i; ipkg install $i; done;
>
> On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 13:24, Matthew Hixson wrote:
> > Would it be possible to modify that command to automagically reinstall
> > each of the packages immediately after they've been removed so that we
> > don't have to reinstall everything by hand?
> > Thanks,
> > -M@
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Benjamin Long wrote:
> >
> > > We've changed the names of the packages to make versioning saner. The
> > > packages now have a timestamp in them instead of the "-beta#" subversion.
> > > Unfortunately, ipkg chokes on this if you try to upgrade from the older
> > > packages. It thinks the packages are a lower version number. To get around
> > > this, you can run:
> > > for i in `ipkg status|grep opie|cut -d" " -f2`; do ipkg remove $i; done;
> > > This will remove all the old opie-* packages and allow you to install the new
> > > ones.
> > >
> > > Sorry for the hiccup.
> > >
> > > Benjamin Long
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> > >
> >
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> --
> Chris Larson, RHCE, LPIC-1, LCP - aka Kergoth
> kergoth at digitalnemesis dot net
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Received on Sat Feb 23 01:20:44 2002