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

[Xyne]

Xavier Chantry wrote:

> 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 ?

Sorry, I had only tried "-Si foo=x.y".

Thanks for being pre-emptively awesome. :)