Package Helpers

Utility functions for working with package operations.

Functions

Function	Description
`AlpineDependency`	One package reference of an Alpine (apk) `depends` list.
`AlpineOperator`	The operators of an Alpine (apk) version constraint, as apk writes them: the five comparisons;
`ArchDependency`	One package reference of an Arch Linux `depends` array.
`ComparisonOperator`	The operators of an RPM or Arch Linux version constraint.
`DebianDependency`	One package reference of a Debian relationship field: `name[:arch] [(op version)] [[archs]] []`.
`DebianDependencyOptions`	Options of the Debian format of parseDependencies.
`DebianOperator`	The operators of a Debian version constraint (Debian Policy 7.1): `<<` (strictly earlier), `<=`, `=`, `>=` and `>>` (st…
`DependencyConstraint`	A version constraint such as the `(>= 2.34)` of `libc6 (>= 2.34)`, with the operator spelled as the format spells it.
`parseDeb822`	Parses a deb822 document, the format of Debian `Packages`, `Sources` and `Release` indexes, `control` and `.dsc` and `.…
`parseDependencies`	Parses the value of a package dependency field (`Depends`, `Requires`, `depends`, …) into a structure: groups of alte…
`Pep508Dependency`	One requirement of a PEP 508 dependency specification.
`Pep508Operator`	The operators of a PEP 440 version specifier, as PEP 508 requirements use them.
`RpmDependency`	One package reference of an RPM `Requires` field.
`stringifyDependencies`	Writes dependency groups back as a field value, the inverse of parseDependencies;