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PURL Type Definition: alpm

  • Type Name: Arch Linux package
  • Description: Arch Linux packages and other users of the libalpm/pacman package manager.
  • Schema ID: https://packageurl.org/types/alpm-definition.json

PURL Syntax​

The structure of a PURL for this package type is:

pkg:alpm/<namespace>/<name>@<version>?<qualifiers>#<subpath>

Repository Information​

  • Use Repository: Yes
  • Note: There is no default package repository; this should be implied either from the distro qualifiers key or using a repository base url as repository_url qualifiers key.

Namespace definition​

  • Requirement: Required
  • Normalization rules:
    • It is not case sensitive and must be lowercased.
  • Native Label: vendor
  • Note: The namespace is the vendor such as arch, arch32, archarm, manjaro or msys.

Name definition​

  • Requirement: Required
  • Native Label: name
  • Note: The name is the package name. It is not case sensitive and must be lowercased.

Version definition​

  • Requirement: Optional
  • Case Sensitive: Yes
  • Normalization rules:
  • Native Label: version
  • Note: The version is the version of the package as specified in vercmp(8) at (https://man.archlinux.org/man/vercmp.8#DESCRIPTION as part of alpm.

Qualifiers Definition​

KeyRequirementNative nameDefault ValueDescription
archOptionalarchThe arch is the qualifiers key for a package architecture.

Examples​

  • pkg:alpm/arch/pacman@6.0.1-1?arch=x86_64
  • pkg:alpm/arch/python-pip@21.0-1?arch=any
  • pkg:alpm/arch/containers-common@1:0.47.4-4?arch=x86_64