PKGMAN-DIFF(1) General Commands Manual PKGMAN-DIFF(1)

pkgman-diffshow differences between installed and available packages

pkgman diff [--all] [--deps] [--full] [--regex] [--filter=expr]

Print an overview of packages that are installed and have a different version than they are in the packages sources directories. If you would like to compare the packages using version comparison and show only packages with higher version, then use configuration settings:

pkgman --config-set="preferhigher yes" diff

The options are as follows:

Display locked packages too.
Calculate the new dependencies for available packages.
Show full table.
Interpret filter argument as a regular expression.
=expr
Filter listing packages by expr. The filter argument may be the string, wildcard in fnmatch(3) format, or regex in regex(3) format.
September 9, 2023 Zeppe-Lin