Versions, releases, tags, natively installed software

version (versionString), versionLE (versionString), versionLT (versionString), versionGE (versionString), versionGT (versionString)

Version lets you assign a version string to a package. Versions, releases and tags have no intrinsic meaning within Pacman; they are just strings with standard lexical ordering. Typically, one does something like

version('1.1')  # this package is version 1.1

in package Foo. Then, in another package, you can do

package("Foo | { versionGE('1.0'); versionLT('2.0') OR version('3.0-beta') }")

to select particular versions, or, similarly, on the command line

% pacman -get "Foo | { versionGE('1.0'); versionLT('2.0') OR version('3.0-beta') }"

In the Pacman browsing functions, if you do -l -d versions or -lc -d version the versions of packages will be displayed.

release (releaseString), releaseLE (releaseString), releaseLT (releaseString), releaseGE (releaseString), releaseGT (releaseString)

Identical to version above with "release" instead of "version."

tag (tagString), tagLE (tagString), tagLT (tagString), tagGE (tagString), tagGT (tagString)

Identical to version above with "tag" instead of "version."

patch (patchString), patchLE (patchString), patchLT (patchString), patchGE (patchString), patchGT (patchString)

Identical to version above with "patch" instead of "version."

option (optionString), optionLE (optionString), optionLT (optionString), optionGE (optionString), optionGT (optionString)

Identical to version above with "option" instead of "version."

versionTuple (versionString [, sep]), versionTupleLE (versionString [, sep]), versionTupleLT (versionString [, sep]), versionTupleGE (versionString [, sep]), versionTupleGT (versionString [, sep])

Similar to version above except that the version string is interpreted as a list of integers with the usual partial ordering rather than as a character string as in version('1.22.11'). The second argument is an optional separator character which defaults to ".".

linuxKernel (versionString), linuxKernelLE (versionString), linuxKernelLT (versionString), linuxKernelGE (versionString), linuxKernelGT (versionString)

These atoms let you require versions or version ranges of the standard linux kernel.

gccVersion (versionString), gccVersionLE (versionString), gccVersionLT (versionString), gccVersionGE (versionString), gccVersionGT (versionString)

These atoms let you require versions or version ranges of gcc.

glibcVersion (versionString), glibcVersionLE (versionString), glibcVersionLT (versionString), glibcVersionGE (versionString), glibcVersionGT (versionString)

These atoms let you require versions or version ranges of glibc.

gccBinary (path, versionString), gccBinaryLE (path, versionString), gccBinaryLT (path, versionString), gccBinaryGE (path, versionString), gccBinaryGT (path, versionString)

These let you test if a particular binary has been compiled with gcc versions as indicated.

pythonVersion (versionString), pythonVersionLE (versionString), pythonVersionLT (versionString), pythonVersionGE (versionString), pythonVersionGT (versionString)

These atoms let you require versions or version ranges of Python.

sshVersion (versionString), sshVersionLE (versionString), sshVersionLT (versionString), sshVersionGE (versionString), sshVersionGT (versionString)

These atoms let you require versions or version ranges of SSH.

perlVersion (versionString), perlVersionLE (versionString), perlVersionLT (versionString), perlVersionGE (versionString), perlVersionGT (versionString)

These atoms let you require versions or version ranges of Perl.

pacmanVersion (versionString), pacmanVersionLE (versionString), pacmanVersionLT (versionString), pacmanVersionGE (versionString), pacmanVersionGT (versionString)

These atoms let you require versions or version ranges of Pacman.

If you want to test versions of software not in this list, a good option is to use shellOutput, shellOutputLE, etc.

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