NAME

pkgman-printf — print formatted list of available packages

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Print formatted list of available packages. It looks in all packages sources directories specified in /etc/pkgman.conf as “pkgsrcdir” argument.

The options are as follows:

--sort=format

The format string (see below) that is used to sort the output.

--regex

Interpret --filter argument as a regular expression.

--filter=expr

Filter listing package names by expr. The --filter argument may be the string, wildcard in fnmatch(3) format, or regex in regex(3) format.

format

The string that contains variables, which are replaced like this:

Variable	Description	Replacement
%n	name
%p	path
%v	version
%r	release number
%d	description
%e	dependencies
%u	URL
%P	packager
%M	maintainer
%R	has README	yes/no
%A	has pre-install	yes/no
%B	has post-install	yes/no
%C	has pre-remove	yes/no
%D	has post-remove	yes/no
%l	is locked	yes/no
%i	is installed	yes/no/diff

The “diff” replacement for “%i” (is installed) variable means the package is installed and different package version is available in the packages sources directories.

EXIT STATUS

0 if success, 255 if packages not found.