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compver(5)

versions a package is compatible with

Package: APKGENG, added for amigaux.

Also by this name: compver(4), File formats and configuration files

NAME

compver - versions a package is compatible with

SYNOPSIS

install/compver

DESCRIPTION

A package may carry a compver file, named in its prototype(5) as i compver. It lists earlier versions of the package that this version can stand in for, one per line. Lines starting with # are comments.

pkgadd(1M) keeps the file of the installed package in /var/sadm/pkg/pkginst/install/compver. When another package's depend(5) file asks for a version of this package, the request is met if the installed version equals it, or else if a line of the installed package's compver does. Versions are compared as text: leading and trailing white space is ignored and a run of white space inside a version counts as one space; otherwise the characters must match exactly. There are no ranges and no ordering.

EXAMPLE

A package at VERSION=2.1 that can replace its 2.0 releases:

# versions this one is compatible with
2.0
2.0.1

FILES

/var/sadm/pkg/pkginst/install/compver: the installed package's copy