PKG_CHECK-VERSION(1) | General Commands Manual | PKG_CHECK-VERSION(1)

# 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>

April 19, 2022 | Debian