awk to remove last two -*-*

Shell Programming and Scripting
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fq-bar-something-1.0-r1.src.rpm  ----> fq-bar-something
fq-bar-xx-r1-rel.src.rpm   ---------> fq-bar-xx
fq-bar-ff-ver-11-rel.src.rpm   -------> fq-bar-ff-ver

any help?

2 
cat filename | awk -F '-' '{$NF=""; $(NF-1)=""; print }' | sed 's/ /-/g' | sed 's/--$//g'

Please next time seperate input and expected output in two different CODEQOUTE

3

That doesn't get what I want. please see my expected ouput

4 
 cat filename | awk -F '-' '{$NF=""; $(NF-1)=""; print }' | sed 's/ /-/g' | sed 's/--$//g'

Please next time seperate input and expected output in two different CODEQOUTE

5

Try:

awk 'NF-=2{$1=$1}1' FS=- OFS=- file

sed 's/-[^-]*-[^-]*$//' file
6

I had wanted to offer sth like

$ awk -F '-' '{for (i=1;i<NF-2;i++) printf "%s-", $i; printf "%s\n", $(i) }' file

but scutinizer's proposals beat them all!