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 "option" 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.
- 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 the standard linux kernel.
- 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.