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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:24:48 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: v2.03 update 2
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Hello.

Charles Sandmann wrote:
[snip]
> (Does anyone/anything look at the .ver file?)
[snip]

zippo parses .ver files, to see if it can get a package name and version
number. Since most .ver files follow the format below, this mostly works.

    <manifest name> <name> <version> (<type>)

e.g.:

    gmp41b GMP 4.1 (binaries)

If a DSM is present for the package, then that is parsed too. zippo removes
duplicate packages from its package list, preferring package descriptions
parsed from DSMs over .ver files.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]