[pacman-dev] Versioned packages on the command line.

[Xavier Chantry]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If two repos (obviously not both official) provide the same binary package,
> pacman will install the package from the repo that is listed first in
> pacman.conf, if specified on the command line, e.g. "pacman -S foo".
>
> If another package depends on "foo", the same thing happens, but if it instead
> depends on "foo=1.4" and only the second repo provides it, then pacman will
> correctly skip over the first repo and install it from the second.
>
> If so, would you consider making it possible to specify versions directly on
> the command line, e.g. "pacman -S foo=1.4". I know that it's possible to first
> do a search for the package to see which repos contain it, then prepend the
> repo, e.g. "pacman -S second-repo/foo", but it would be more useful sometimes to
> be able to just specify the version using "=", "<=", etc. This would ideally
> also work for detecting providers too, e.g. if "bar" provides "foo=1.4" then
> "pacman -S foo=1.4" would install bar (or bring up the provider selection
> dialogue once that's included... I really like that idea btw... considered
> doing that in powerpill at some point)
>
>
>
> For a possible use of this, see the following post on the arch-haskell mailing
> list:
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2010-November/000740.html
>
>

Did you actually try it ?