TESTPKG(8)

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💖 testpkg(8) — the pacman manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the testpkg page from the Pacman Manual, section 8 (that's the sysadmin-girlies section, iykyk). this is the whole thing, every single crumb of it, just ✨vibing✨ now.

✨ NAME ✨

testpkg — test a pacman package for validity 🎀

like. that's it. that's the girl. she tests packages. she checks if they're valid. main character behavior fr.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

testpkg <package file>

one argument, one job, no drama. you hand her a package file and she tells you if it's valid. slay.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so testpkg is a script, right? and its entire purpose — its whole reason for being, its little life's mission — is to make sure that a pacman package is valid. 💅

that's it. that's the function. it validates. it confirms. it gives you the vibe check on your package. no cap.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • pacman(8) — the big one, the icon, the moment 💖

also, if you want the current tea on pacman and all its related tools, the pacman website lives at:

https://archlinux.org/pacman/

go check it out, it's giving documentation realness. 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

bestie. bugs? you must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software. 😤 periodt. flawless. immaculate. not a single one.

BUT — and this is a big but, and I cannot lie 🙈 — if we happen to be wrong, please report them to the issue tracker at:

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/issues

and when you do, bring the specific information, okay? like:

  • your command-line
  • the nature of the bug
  • even the package database, if it helps

don't just show up like "it's broken 💀" — give them the receipts. 🧚

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Current maintainers 👑

  • Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
  • Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>
  • Morgan Adamiec <morganamilo@archlinux.org>

Past major contributors 🫶

  • Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
  • Aurelien Foret <aurelien@archlinux.org>
  • Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org>
  • Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
  • Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>
  • Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>
  • Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
  • Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>

and for additional contributors, run this on the pacman.git repository:

git shortlog -s

legends only, every one of them. 🌟

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was Pacman 7.1.0, dated 2026-10-15, straight from the TESTPKG(8) manual. go validate something. you got this. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸

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