[pacman-dev] List packages from a given repo
Allan McRae
mcrae_allan at hotmail.com
Thu May 8 19:47:12 EDT 2008
R. Dale Thomas wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Well, I made the following changes to speed it up by 40%:
>
> 39c39
> < pacman -Sl > $pkglist
> ---
> > pacman -Sl | grep "^$1" > $pkglist
> 42c42
> < match=$(grep -m1 " $pkg " $pkglist | grep "^$1")
> ---
> > match=$(grep -m1 " $pkg " $pkglist)
>
>
The problem with those changes is if a package is in [testing] and
[core] you only want to match it to the first repo in your pacman.conf
(i.e. [testing] in this case). Your change would match it in both repos.
Allan
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