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| Archlinux32 fork of pacman | gitolite user |
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/.gitignore | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/Makefile.am | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/footer.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/index.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pacman.8.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/vercmp.8.txt | 71 |
diff --git a/doc/.gitignore b/doc/.gitignore index f047aaa9..a6f4df7f 100644 --- a/doc/.gitignore +++ b/doc/.gitignore @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ pacman.8 pacman.conf.5 repo-add.8 repo-remove.8 +vercmp.8 *.css *.html *.xml diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am index 37dab13f..00a0e88d 100644 --- a/doc/Makefile.am +++ b/doc/Makefile.am @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ ASCIIDOC_MANS = \ pacman.8 \ makepkg.8 \ repo-add.8 \ + vercmp.8 \ PKGBUILD.5 \ makepkg.conf.5 \ pacman.conf.5 \ @@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ HTML_MANPAGES = \ pacman.8.html \ makepkg.8.html \ repo-add.8.html \ + vercmp.8.html \ PKGBUILD.5.html \ makepkg.conf.5.html \ pacman.conf.5.html \ @@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \ pacman.8.txt \ makepkg.8.txt \ repo-add.8.txt \ + vercmp.8.txt \ PKGBUILD.5.txt \ PKGBUILD-example.txt \ makepkg.conf.5.txt \ @@ -129,6 +132,7 @@ $(HTML_OTHER): asciidoc.conf pacman.8 pacman.8.html: pacman.8.txt makepkg.8 makepkg.8.html: makepkg.8.txt repo-add.8 repo-add.8.html: repo-add.8.txt +vercmp.8 vercmp.8.html: vercmp.8.txt PKGBUILD.5 PKGBUILD.5.html: PKGBUILD.5.txt PKGBUILD-example.txt makepkg.conf.5 makepkg.conf.5.html: makepkg.conf.5.txt pacman.conf.5 pacman.conf.5.html: pacman.conf.5.txt diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt index e6c4a1fb..c0fa5948 100644 --- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt +++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ similar to `$_basekernver`. *pkgver*:: The version of the software as released from the author (e.g. '2.7.1'). - The variable is not allowed to contain hyphens. + The variable is not allowed to contain colons or hyphens. *pkgrel*:: This is the release number specific to the Arch Linux release. This diff --git a/doc/footer.txt b/doc/footer.txt index 8290f3c4..2ffb0092 100644 --- a/doc/footer.txt +++ b/doc/footer.txt @@ -18,13 +18,14 @@ Authors Current maintainers: +* Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> * Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> * Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com> -* Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org> Past contributors: * Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org> * Aurelien Foret <aurelien@archlinux.org> +* Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org> See the 'AUTHORS' file for additional contributors. diff --git a/doc/index.txt b/doc/index.txt index ef328415..afb2719d 100644 --- a/doc/index.txt +++ b/doc/index.txt @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ configuration files dealing with pacman. * linkman:pacman[8] * linkman:pacman.conf[5] * linkman:repo-add[8] +* linkman:vercmp[8] Changelog ~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index 2b47a88c..8f91e408 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -80,8 +80,10 @@ to determine which packages need upgrading. This behavior operates as follows: Numeric: 1 < 1.0 < 1.1 < 1.1.1 < 1.2 < 2.0 < 3.0.0 + -Additionally, packages can have an 'epoch' value defined that will override any -version comparison and force an upgrade. +Additionally, version strings can have an 'epoch' value defined that will +overrule any version comparison (unless the epoch values are equal). This is +specified in an `epoch:version-rel` format. For example, `2:1.0-1` is always +greater than `1:3.6-1`. *-T, \--deptest*:: Check dependencies; this is useful in scripts such as makepkg to check diff --git a/doc/vercmp.8.txt b/doc/vercmp.8.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f2fc5305 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/vercmp.8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +///// +vim:set ts=4 sw=4 syntax=asciidoc noet: +///// +vercmp(8) +========= + +Name +---- +vercmp - version comparsion utility + + +Synopsis +-------- +'vercmp' <version1> <version2> + + +Description +----------- +'vercmp' is used to determine the relationship between two given version +numbers. It outputs values as follows: + +* < 0 : if ver1 < ver2 +* = 0 : if ver1 == ver2 +* > 0 : if ver1 > ver2 + +Version comparsion operates as follows: + + Alphanumeric: + 1.0a < 1.0alpha < 1.0b < 1.0beta < 1.0p < 1.0pre < 1.0rc < 1.0 + Numeric: + 1 < 1.0 < 1.1 < 1.1.1 < 1.2 < 2.0 < 3.0.0 + +Additionally, version strings can have an 'epoch' value defined that will +overrule any version comparison (unless the epoch values are equal). This is +specified in an `epoch:version-rel` format. For example, `2:1.0-1` is always +greater than `1:3.6-1`. + + +Options +------- +*-h, \--help*:: + Display syntax for the given operation. If no operation was supplied + then the general syntax is shown. + +Examples +-------- + + $ vercmp 1 2 + -1 + + $ vercmp 2 1 + 1 + + $ vercmp 2.0-1 1.7-6 + 1 + + $ vercmp 2.0 2.0-13 + 0 + + $ vercmp 4.34 1:001 + -1 + +Configuration +------------- +There is none. + +See Also +-------- +linkman:pacman[8], linkman:makepkg[8], linkman:libalpm[3] + +include::footer.txt[] |