From morganamilo at gmail.com  Fri Jun 28 20:12:57 2019
From: morganamilo at gmail.com (morganamilo)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 21:12:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] checkupdates: add -q/--quiet
Message-ID: <20190628201258.20566-1-morganamilo@gmail.com>


diff --git a/src/checkupdates.sh.in b/src/checkupdates.sh.in
index 0885983..024243c 100644
--- a/src/checkupdates.sh.in
+++ b/src/checkupdates.sh.in
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ declare -r myname='checkupdates'
 declare -r myver='@PACKAGE_VERSION@'
 
 DOWNLOAD_CACHE=0
+QUIET=0
 
 m4_include(../lib/output_format.sh)
 m4_include(../lib/term_colors.sh)
@@ -38,14 +39,15 @@ Usage: ${myname} [options]
   Options:
     -d, --download        download pending updates to the pacman cache.
     -h, --help            display this help message and exit.
+    -q, --quiet           only display pkgnames.
 
 Note: Export the "CHECKUPDATES_DB" variable to change the path of the temporary database.
 
 __EOF__
 }
 
-OPT_SHORT='dh'
-OPT_LONG=('download' 'help')
+OPT_SHORT='dhq'
+OPT_LONG=('download' 'help' 'quiet')
 
 if ! parseopts "$OPT_SHORT" "${OPT_LONG[@]}" -- "$@"; then
 	exit 1
@@ -60,6 +62,8 @@ while :; do
 		-h|--help)
 			usage
 			exit 0 ;;
+		-q|--quiet)
+			QUIET=1 ;;
 		--)
 			shift
 			break ;;
@@ -92,6 +96,9 @@ fi
 mapfile -t updates < <(pacman -Qu --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" 2> /dev/null | grep -v '\[.*\]')
 
 if (( ${#updates[@]} )); then
+	if (( $QUIET )); then
+		updates=("${updates[@]%% *}")
+	fi
 	printf '%s\n' "${updates[@]}"
 	if (( DOWNLOAD_CACHE )); then
 		sudo pacman -Sw --noconfirm "${updates[@]%% *}" --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" --logfile /dev/null
-- 
2.22.0

From morganamilo at gmail.com  Fri Jun 28 20:12:58 2019
From: morganamilo at gmail.com (morganamilo)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 21:12:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] checkupdates: allow filtering the update list
In-Reply-To: <20190628201258.20566-1-morganamilo@gmail.com>
References: <20190628201258.20566-1-morganamilo@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20190628201258.20566-2-morganamilo@gmail.com>


diff --git a/src/checkupdates.sh.in b/src/checkupdates.sh.in
index 024243c..ae8197c 100644
--- a/src/checkupdates.sh.in
+++ b/src/checkupdates.sh.in
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ${myname} v${myver}
 
 Safely print a list of pending updates
 
-Usage: ${myname} [options]
+Usage: ${myname} [options] [targets...]
 
   Options:
     -d, --download        download pending updates to the pacman cache.
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ if ! fakeroot -- pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" --logfile /dev/null &> /
 	error 'Cannot fetch updates'
 	exit 1
 fi
-mapfile -t updates < <(pacman -Qu --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" 2> /dev/null | grep -v '\[.*\]')
+mapfile -t updates < <(pacman -Qu --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" -- "$@" 2> /dev/null | grep -v '\[.*\]')
 
 if (( ${#updates[@]} )); then
 	if (( $QUIET )); then
-- 
2.22.0

From eschwartz at archlinux.org  Fri Jun 28 20:20:50 2019
From: eschwartz at archlinux.org (Eli Schwartz)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:20:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] checkupdates: add -q/--quiet
In-Reply-To: <20190628201258.20566-1-morganamilo@gmail.com>
References: <20190628201258.20566-1-morganamilo@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <077c007a-229a-a004-4188-698bab5e3474@archlinux.org>

On 6/28/19 4:12 PM, morganamilo wrote:

What's the utility of adding this extra option, vs. just using:

checkupdates | awk '{print $1}'

The typical use of this script probably just cares about the exit code
anyway. There are some scripts which just count the number of lines.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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From eschwartz at archlinux.org  Fri Jun 28 20:24:02 2019
From: eschwartz at archlinux.org (Eli Schwartz)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:24:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] checkupdates: allow filtering the update list
In-Reply-To: <20190628201258.20566-2-morganamilo@gmail.com>
References: <20190628201258.20566-1-morganamilo@gmail.com>
 <20190628201258.20566-2-morganamilo@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <7ddb2597-b9de-c037-ca45-24fd3bb4ea2c@archlinux.org>

On 6/28/19 4:12 PM, morganamilo wrote:

What would this be used by? When do people want to only know when there
are *some* updates?

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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