[pacman-dev] pacman, formatted output

[Allan McRae]

On 16/03/10 07:46, tuxce wrote:
> Hi, I made a little program in C, package-query to query alpm and aur.
> He takes an option to format his output and I'm wondering if this
> feature can be implemented in pacman (just for alpm of course).
>
> I think I can provide a patch to implement it for queries like -{Q,S}s
> with an option --format, but I don't know if it could interest.
>
> To see how it renders, you can try package-query-git from AUR, example:
>
> $ # repo/name version [local version]
> $ package-query -Ss pacman -f "%r/%n %v [%l]"
> core/pacman 3.3.3-1 [3.3.3-1]
> core/pacman-mirrorlist 20100131-1 [20100131-1]
> extra/namcap 2.5-1 [2.5-1]
> extra/srcpac 0.7-1 [-]
> community/pacman-contrib 3.3.3-1 [3.3.3-1]
> community/pacpan 4.0-4 [-]
> community/pacupdate 0.1.1-2 [-]
> community/powerpill 17.1-1 [17.1-1]
> community/xpacman 0.11-4 [-]
> community/xpacman2 1.002-2 [-]
>
>
> btw, thanks for the work done in alpm, I found it quite simple to
> understand even if there is no documentation :)
>

Something like this was just pulled into the git master branch:
http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=d39b1dbe

Allan