On 14-03-05 10:38:36, Andrew Gregory wrote:
On 03/05/14 at 04:00pm, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
Printing package size is useful for maintenance. Indeed, the first entry on the wiki is focused on this topic:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Tips#Maintenance
None of the proposed solutions will allow you to: - select packages; - work on the output of other commands yielding a list of packages; - change the sorting; - be locale independent; - print a grand total; - be fast (most solutions are wasting a lot of time -- only expac is faster); - not rely on any third-party tool.
Pacsize is a POSIX shell script that is generic enough to enclose all these features (and more).
Adding a 'pacsize' script eliminates the unneeded abundance of workarounds for this simple matter.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> --- contrib/.gitignore | 1 + contrib/Makefile.am | 3 + contrib/README | 4 ++ contrib/pacsize.sh.in | 159 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 167 insertions(+) create mode 100644 contrib/pacsize.sh.in
Your pacman parser doesn't understand size units: $ ./pacsize linux 67 KiB linux $ pacman -Qi linux | grep Installed [0][1078] Installed Size : 67.12 MiB
This is actually something I've been wondering for a while: how do you change the size unit? -- Pierre Neidhardt "Remember, extremism in the nondefense of moderation is not a virtue." -- Peter Neumann, about usenet