qatom

Section: qatom (1)
Updated: May 2018
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NAME

qatom - split atom strings

SYNOPSIS

qatom [opts] <pkg>

DESCRIPTION

qatom parses strings into atoms and optionally compares them. The parsing into atoms results in CATEGORY, PN (package name), PV (package version), PR (package revision), SLOT and REPO. Next to these version qualifiers (e.g. >, <, or =) and optional * suffix are extracted. All but PN are optional.

Comparison of atoms returns the relationship between two parsed atoms. qatom does not allow to test conditions. It is possible to perform multiple comparisons by simply adding more arguments. Comparisons are, however, always performed two by two, so there must be an even count of arguments to the compare function.

The qatom applet is a direct wrapper around the atom parsing functionalities used by various other applets. As such this applet allows easy testing or atom parsing and comparison behaviour.

OPTIONS

-F <arg>, --format <arg>

Specify a custom output format. The default format is

%{CATEGORY} %{PN} %{PV} %[PR] %[SLOT] %[pfx] %[sfx]

Conversion specifiers start with a % symbol and are followed by either { or [. Next is the name of the field to expand, followed by a matching } or ]. The difference between { and [ is that the latter is only printed if the field referred is set, while the former prints <unset> in that case.

The following fields are supported, which are inline with the variables from ebuild(5).

CATEGORY: The category of the package.
P: The package name and version without the ebuild revision.
PN: The package name.
PV: The package version without the ebuild revision.
PVR: The package version including ebuild revision, which is also printed when zero, unlike for PF.
PF: The package name, version and revision when not zero. Thus, a zero revision -r0 is not printed.
PR: The ebuild revision, when force printed, outputs -r0 when unset.
SLOT: The package slot, when force printed, outputs - when unset.
REPO: The package repository.
pfx: The package prefixes, that is version specifiers.
sfx: The package suffices, currently that is just the asterisk.

-c, --compare

Compare two atoms.

--root <arg>

Set the ROOT env var.

-v, --verbose

Force all expansions, basically treat all [ like {.

-q, --quiet

Ignored for compatibility with other qapplets.

-C, --nocolor

Ignored for compatibility with other qapplets.

-h, --help

Print this help and exit.

-V, --version

Print version and exit.

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/
Product: Portage Development; Component: Tools, Assignee: portage-utils@gentoo.org

AUTHORS

Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>