Manpages - downgrade.8
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USAGE
downgrade [option…] <pkg> [pkg…] [*–* pacman_option…]
DESCRIPTION
Downgrade Arch Linux packages.
OUTPUT
Just calling downgrade on a package will lead to the following output:
Example:
Available packages (community):
- 1) terraform 0.11.11 2 remote
- 2) terraform 0.11.12 1 /var/cache/pacman/pkg
+ 3) terraform 0.11.13 1 remote
+ 4) terraform 0.11.13 1 /var/cache/pacman/pkg
- 5) terraform 0.12.0 1 remote
- 6) terraform 0.12.0 1 /var/cache/pacman/pkg
7) terraform 0.12.1 1 remote
select a package by number:
The columns have the following meaning:
indicator Possible values: {-|+}
- indicates that the version was previously installed.
- indicates the currently installed version.
enumeration An enumeration of the entries for selection.
package-name The name of the package.
package-epoch The epoch of the package in cache or ALA.
package-version The version of the package in cache or ALA.
package-release The release of the package in cache or ALA.
location Possible values: {remote|/path/to/cache/dir}
If you have already downloaded this version, it will show the cache directory where the package is located. remote indicates that the version is available on the ALA.
OPTIONS
–pacman <command>
Pacman command, default is pacman.
–pacman-conf <path>
Pacman configuration file, default is /etc/pacman.conf.
–pacman-cache <path>
Pacman cache directory, default value(s) taken from pacman configuration file, or otherwise defaults to /var/cache/pacman/pkg. This option can be specified multiple times to indicate multiple cache directories.
–pacman-log <path>
Pacman log file, default value is extracted from pacman configuration file, or otherwise defaults to /var/log/pacman.log.
–maxdepth <integer>
Maximum depth to search for cached packages, defaults to 1.
–ala-url <url>
Location of an ALA server, default is https://archive.archlinux.org.
–ala-only
Search ALA only.
–cached-only
Search local cache only.
–version
Show downgrade version.
-h, –help
Show help script.
CONFIGURATION FILE
Command-line options can be set persistently in /etc/xdg/downgrade/downgrade.conf. Note that these options are parsed first by downgrade, followed by any other command-line options provided by the user.
PACMAN OPTIONS
As per the usage syntax, any options supplied after the -- character sequence will be treated as pacman options.
DEFAULT BEHAVIORS
By default, downgrade will search both local caches and the ALA.
If only one package with its corresponding location matches, the package will be installed without further prompt from the user.
VERSION FILTERING
downgrade allows the use of the following version-filtering operators:
=, ==, =~, <=, >=, < and >. Note that =~ represents a
regex match operator and */*= are aliases.
EXIT CODES
downgrade will stop further processing and exit non-zero if it encounters any of the following scenarios for any of its arguments:
- No argument value(s) supplied where necessary
- No package(s) found
- Package(s) found, but an invalid selection was made
pacman -Ureturned non-zero- Unexpected error when handling
IgnorePkgadditions
SEE ALSO
pacman*(8), *vercmp(8), *sudo*(8), *pacman.conf*(5), *find*(1), *su*(1).
BUGS
Open a GitHub issue on https://github.com/pbrisbin/downgrade.
AUTHORS
- Patrick Brisbin <pbrisbin@gmail.com>
- Atreya Shankar <shankar.atreya@gmail.com>