Alpine apk: List all available package versions

Question

How can I list all available package versions of a given package on Alpine Linux?

I couldn't find anything helpful in the apk help.

apk info bash only shows me the latest available bash version.

# apk info bash
bash-5.0.0-r0 description:
The GNU Bourne Again shell

bash-5.0.0-r0 webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html

bash-5.0.0-r0 installed size:
1200128

Using the --all flag I only get some additional info for that version:

# apk info --all bash
bash-5.0.0-r0 description:
The GNU Bourne Again shell

bash-5.0.0-r0 webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html

bash-5.0.0-r0 installed size:
1200128

bash-5.0.0-r0 depends on:
/bin/sh
so:libc.musl-x86_64.so.1
so:libreadline.so.8

bash-5.0.0-r0 provides:
cmd:bash

bash-5.0.0-r0 has auto-install rule:

bash-5.0.0-r0 license:
GPL-3.0-or-later

apk list and apk list --available only list all available packages at their latest version.
So if I run apk list -a | grep "^bash-\d", I only get this:

# apk list -a | grep "^bash-\d"
bash-5.0.0-r0 x86_64 {bash} (GPL-3.0-or-later)

Answer 1

The command list the info from the lastest branch and Alpine manage package version in different branches for example v3.5, v3.6.... v3.10

The apk utility can install packages from multiple repositories. The list of repositories to check is stored in /etc/apk/repositories, one repository per line.

You can search for the version here

https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=bash&branch=v3.5

or

https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages

So if you are interested to add the version bash4.3 the should tell the branch name while adding the older version or from other branchers rather then the latest one.

apk add  --no-cache --repository http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.5/main/ bash=4.3.46-r5

So if you run

apk add  --no-cache --repository http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.5/main/ && apk info bash

You will get the version info from two different branches.

The GNU Bourne Again shell

bash-4.3.46-r5 webpage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html

bash-4.3.46-r5 installed size:
700416

bash-5.0.0-r0 description:
The GNU Bourne Again shell

bash-5.0.0-r0 webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html

bash-5.0.0-r0 installed size:
1200128