[pacman-dev] -Qi output corrupted when using screen

[Dan McGee]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Roman Kyrylych
<roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 01:38, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Am 26.02.2010 22:01, schrieb Aaron Griffin:
>>> Your terminal is configured wrong. What is $TERM set to? If you are in
>>> screen it should be screen (or some variant such as screen-bce)
>
> TERM is linux. Changing it does not help.
>
>> "xm console" is a rather primitive terminal, not nearly as powerful as
>> screen.
>
> Ah, didn't know this.
>
> I tried iptraf, and the output was a broken too (in another way),
> so it's not just pacman that experiences this problem.
>
> However, -Sy falls back gracefully, i.e.
> via lish (screen to /dev/hvc0):
>  testing                   14.5K   52.4K/s 00:00:00
>  core                      36.1K   85.7K/s 00:00:00
>  extra                    445.6K   60.8K/s 00:00:07
> via ssh:
>  testing                   14.5K   56.2K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
>  core                      36.1K   91.1K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
>  extra                    152.0K   75.8K/s 00:00:03 [#######--------------]  34%
>
> -Ss is broken too.
> It looks like the breakage occurs on spaces after some column,
> so -Ql doesn't break even very long lines,
> because there is no space in package paths.
>
> It would be nice to have -Ss/-Si/-Qi usable too,
> but it seems like a very low priority
> (I don't know if there are many people who run pacman
> on such limited terminals as xm console)

Define usable. Nothing you posted showed any sort of corruption
whatsoever, it just linebreaked where you didn't expect. If you are
using a crappy terminal that doesn't support queries for size, then
use this as a workaround:
pacman -Qi glibc | cat

-Dan