xbps/bin/xbps-query/xbps-query.8

.Dd December 20, 2012
.Os Void Linux
.Dt xbps-query 8
.Sh NAME
.Nm xbps-query
.Nd XBPS utility to query for package and repository information
.Sh SYNOPSYS
.Nm xbps-query
.Op OPTIONS
.Ar MODE
.Op PKG
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility prints information of a specific package or packages stored
in target root directory or in registered repositories.
The argument
.Ar PKG
is a package expression, which is explained in the
.Em PACKAGE EXPRESSION
section.
.Sh PACKAGE EXPRESSION
A package expression is a form to match a pattern; currently xbps
supports 3 ways to specify them:
.Bl -dash
.It
by package name, i.e:
.Dq Sy foo .
.It
by exact package name and version, i.e:
.Dq Sy foo-1.0_1 .
.It
by specifying a package name and version separated by any of the following version comparators:
.Bl -item -width xx -compact
.Pp
.It
.Sy <
less than
.It
.Sy >
greater than
.It
.Sy <=
less or equal than
.It
.Sy >=
greater or equal than
.Pp
Example:
.Dq Sy foo>=2.0 .
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width -x
.It Fl C, Fl -config Ar file
Specifies a full path to the XBPS configuration file.
.It Fl c, Fl -cachedir Ar dir
Specifies a full path to the cache directory, where binary packages are stored.
.It Fl D, Fl -defrepo Ar uri
Default repository to be used if no repository is specified in configuration file.
.It Fl d, Fl -debug
Enables extra debugging shown to stderr.
.It Fl h, Fl -help
Show the help usage.
.It Fl R, Fl -repository
Enable repository mode. This mode explicitly looks in repositories, rather
than looking in the target root directory.
.It Fl r, Fl -rootdir Ar dir
Specifies a full path for the target root directory.
.It Fl v, Fl -verbose
Enables verbose messages.
.It Fl V, Fl -version
Shows the XBPS version.
.Sh MODE
Only one of the following modes can be used at a time.
By default and unless the
.Fl R
option is specified, the target
.Ar PKG
will be queried in the root directory, and if this fails, it will be
queried in registered repositories.
.Bl -tag -width -x
.It Fl l, Fl -list-pkgs
Lists registered packages in the package database (pkgdb).
.It Fl L, Fl -list-repos
Lists registered and working repositories.
.It Fl m, Fl -list-manual-pkgs
Lists registered packages in the package database (pkgdb) that were installed
manually by the user (i.e not as dependency of any package).
.It Fl M, Fl -list-orphans
Lists package orphans in the package database (pkgdb), i.e packages that
were installed as dependencies and no package is currently depending on them
directly.
.It Fl o, Fl -ownedby Ar PATTERN...
Search for packages owning the files specified by
.Ar PATTERN .
The
.Ar PATTERN
can be a shell wildcard pattern (see
.Xr fnmatch 3),
a simple string, or a
.Ar package pattern
(i.e package name separated by any of the following version comparators:
\'<' '>' '<=' '>=', 'foo>2.0').
Multiple patterns may be specified.
.It Fl s, Fl -search Ar PATTERN...
Search for packages matching
.Ar PATTERN
on its
.Em pkgver
and/or
.Em description
properties. The same rules explained in the
.Fl -ownedby
option are applied.
.It Fl f, Fl -files Ar PKG
Show the package files for
.Ar PKG .
.It Fl p, Fl -property Ar PROP[,...] Ar PKG
Show a property for
.Ar PKG .
Multiple properties can be specified by delimiting them with commas.
.It Fl x, Fl -deps Ar PKG
Show the required dependencies for
.Ar PKG .
.It Fl X, Fl -revdeps Ar PKG
Show the reverse dependencies for
.Ar PKG .
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /var/db/xbps/.<pkgname>.plist
.It Ar /etc/xbps/xbps.conf
Default XBPS configuration file.
.It Ar /var/db/xbps/.<pkgname>.plist
Package metadata properties.
.It Ar /var/db/xbps/pkgdb.plist
XBPS package database.
.It Ar /var/cache/xbps
Default XBPS cache directory.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr xbps-create 8 ,
.Xr xbps-dgraph 8 ,
.Xr xbps-install 8 ,
.Xr xbps-pkgdb 8 ,
.Xr xbps-reconfigure 8 ,
.Xr xbps-remove 8 ,
.Xr xbps-rindex 8
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Juan Romero Pardines <xtraeme@gmail.com>
.Sh BUGS
Probably, but I try to make this not happen. Use it under your own
responsability and enjoy your life.
.Pp
Report bugs in http://code.google.com/p/xbps.