pkg_check-version1

Usage

Overview

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’).