[pacman-dev] pacman summary!

[smurfd]

ah okey, didnt know that that existed...
cool.
thanks.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> smurfd wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> i have a suggestion,
>> like the suggestion i gave to the portage developers for the gentoo
>> "package" manager.
>>
>> It would be really nice, if after a "pacman -Suy" or just a simple "pacman
>> -S <packagelist>" that you got a summary of all the messages that has been
>> spit out on the screen while doing the upgrade of packages.
>>
>> If you upgrade several packages, say 100 of them or so, it could be hard
>> to read all the notices that every package spits out when beeing installed.
>>
>> i mean stuff like :
>> />>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
>> >>> MKINITCPIO SETUP
>> >>> ----------------
>> >>> If you use LVM2, Encrypted root or software RAID,
>> >>> Ensure you enable support in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf .
>> >>> More information about mkinitcpio setup can be found here:
>> >>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio
>>
>> >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio.  Please wait...
>> /
>> Hope you like the idea,
>> and i dont think it should be so hard to apply.
>> cut all of the >>> things to a temp file and after doing the last upgrade
>> you cat whatever is in that temp file.. or something like that.
>>
>> Best regards
>> /smurfd
>>
>
> So looking at /var/log/pacman.log is not enough?
>
> Allan
>
>
>
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