PKG_CHECK-VERSION(1) - General Commands Manual #

PKG_CHECK-VERSION(1) - General Commands Manual

NAME #

pkg_check-version - verify parsing and ordering of package names

SYNOPSIS #

pkg_check-version [-Hv] pkgname …

DESCRIPTION #

pkg_check-version takes a list of pkgname and processes them.

• each name is parsed and checked for issues.
• in addition, comparable names (same stem and same flavor) are sorted from older to newer version.

Options are as follows:

-H

displays a human-readable version of each pkgname (full version parsing, including known suffixes, dewey numbers parsing, REVISION, EPOCH, flavor markers).

-v

verbose mode, which will explicitly state pkgname with no issues and sort one element lists.

EXIT STATUS #

The pkg_check-version utility exits with 0, unless one of the pkgname was malformed, or two names are actually non comparable (such as ‘moo-1.23pre1’ and ‘moo-1.23rc1’) .

SEE ALSO #

packages-specs(7)

AUTHORS #

Marc Espie <espie@openbsd.org>

OpenBSD 7.5 - April 19, 2022