On Jan 30, 2016 08:27, "Stefan Tatschner" wrote:

On 30.01.2016 14:23, Stefan Tatschner wrote:

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I am quite exited that pacman 5.0 has been removed and finally hooks are there. Good job folks!

But I am a bit confused about the new -F feature. What exactly are the advantages of e.g. -Fo over -Qo, or -Fl over -Ql? I don't understand what is the purpose of this duplication; furthermore the output is not consistent and even gives different results.

Compare -Q and -F on a file owned by a package which isn't installed.

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~ $ pacman -Fo /usr/bin/ls usr/bin/ls is owned by core/coreutils 8.24-1

~ $ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/ls /usr/bin/ls is owned by coreutils 8.25-1

~ $ pacman -Fl coreutils coreutils usr/ coreutils usr/bin/ coreutils usr/bin/[ coreutils usr/bin/base64 coreutils usr/bin/basename [...]

$ pacman -Ql coreutils coreutils /usr/ coreutils /usr/bin/ coreutils /usr/bin/[ coreutils /usr/bin/base32 <-- missing in -Fl coreutils /usr/bin/base64 coreutils /usr/bin/basename [...]

~ $ pacman -Fl coreutils | grep base coreutils usr/bin/base64 coreutils usr/bin/basename coreutils usr/share/man/man1/base64.1.gz coreutils usr/share/man/man1/basename.1.gz

~ $ pacman -Ql coreutils | grep base coreutils /usr/bin/base32 coreutils /usr/bin/base64 coreutils /usr/bin/basename coreutils /usr/share/man/man1/base32.1.gz coreutils /usr/share/man/man1/base64.1.gz coreutils /usr/share/man/man1/basename.1.gz

I would like to add, that -Fo does not follow symlinks; -Qo does:

~ $ pacman -Qo /bin/ls /usr/bin/ls is owned by coreutils 8.25-1

~ $ pacman -Fo /bin/ls ~ $

~ $ pacman -Fo /usr/bin/ls usr/bin/ls is owned by core/coreutils 8.24-1

Stefan