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17.Dd $Mdocdate: April 19 2022 $
18.Dt PKG_CHECK-VERSION 1
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm pkg_check-version
22.Nd verify parsing and ordering of package names
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Nm
25.Op Fl Hv
26.Ar pkgname ...
27.Sh DESCRIPTION
28.Nm
29takes a list of
30.Ar pkgname
31and processes them.
32.Bl -bullet -compact
33.It
34each name is parsed and checked for issues.
35.It
36in addition, comparable names (same stem and same flavor) are sorted
37from older to newer version.
38.El
39.Pp
40Options are as follows:
41.Bl -tag -width Hv
42.It Fl H
43displays a human-readable version of each
44.Ar pkgname
45(full version parsing, including known suffixes, dewey numbers parsing,
46REVISION, EPOCH, flavor markers).
47.It Fl v
48verbose mode, which will explicitly state
49.Ar pkgname
50with no issues and sort one element lists.
51.El
52.Sh EXIT STATUS
53The
54.Nm
55utility exits with 0, unless one of the
56.Ar pkgname
57was malformed, or two names are actually non comparable
58.Po
59such as
60.Sq moo-1.23pre1
61and
62.Sq moo-1.23rc1
63.Pc .
64.Sh SEE ALSO
65.Xr packages-specs 7
66.Sh AUTHORS
67.An Marc Espie Aq Mt espie@openbsd.org
68