Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] '-Spp and -Supp' options were added to generate uri list without the downloaded package uris

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Xyne<xyne@archlinux.ca> wrote:

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Instead of adding several options, wouldn't it be possible to let "-p" accept a string argument with formatting information similar to the way the date command works. This would be extensible in the future and could include the following interpretted sequences (among others)

%u - url %n - pkgname %v - pkgver-pkgrel %s - size

%r - repo

I think the repo would be very useful as well.

my new patch already has %u %n %v, and adding %s and %r will be easy as well. one problem is that url and repo are only available for the -S operation. or maybe url could just be replaced by the filename for -U and -R. and repo by 'local'