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diff --git a/lib/libalpm/util.c b/lib/libalpm/util.c
index 5bf4ef12..26612418 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/util.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/util.c
@@ -800,4 +800,49 @@ char *_alpm_archive_fgets(char *line, size_t size, struct archive *a)
return(line);
}
+int _alpm_splitname(const char *target, pmpkg_t *pkg)
+{
+ /* the format of a db entry is as follows:
+ * package-version-rel/
+ * package name can contain hyphens, so parse from the back- go back
+ * two hyphens and we have split the version from the name.
+ */
+ char *tmp, *p, *q;
+
+ if(target == NULL || pkg == NULL) {
+ return(-1);
+ }
+ STRDUP(tmp, target, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_MEMORY, -1));
+ p = tmp + strlen(tmp);
+
+ /* remove any trailing '/' */
+ while (*(p - 1) == '/') {
+ --p;
+ *p = '\0';
+ }
+
+ /* do the magic parsing- find the beginning of the version string
+ * by doing two iterations of same loop to lop off two hyphens */
+ for(q = --p; *q && *q != '-'; q--);
+ for(p = --q; *p && *p != '-'; p--);
+ if(*p != '-' || p == tmp) {
+ return(-1);
+ }
+
+ /* copy into fields and return */
+ if(pkg->version) {
+ FREE(pkg->version);
+ }
+ STRDUP(pkg->version, p+1, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_MEMORY, -1));
+ /* insert a terminator at the end of the name (on hyphen)- then copy it */
+ *p = '\0';
+ if(pkg->name) {
+ FREE(pkg->name);
+ }
+ STRDUP(pkg->name, tmp, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_MEMORY, -1));
+
+ free(tmp);
+ return(0);
+}
+
/* vim: set ts=2 sw=2 noet: */