[pacman-dev] [PATCH] contrib: Make checkupdates more verbose

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 01:38:36PM -0500, William Giokas wrote:
> Instead of just outputting a package name, print out the new pkgver
> (this is sometimes useful). Also, `pacman -Qu` does not check for
> new dependencies,

Changing this changes the point of the script. I don't care that Y
packages will be installed, I care that X (which may or may not be
equal to Y) packages have upgrades available.

> whereas `pacman -Syup` will, and will print them with the other
> packages. It will also show the download progress for the databases
> instead of just seeming to hang there.

The point is that the resulting output is sane for parsing.

> Signed-off-by: William Giokas <1007380 at gmail.com>
> ---
>  contrib/checkupdates.sh.in | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in b/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in
> index 15950e1..61f6093 100644
> --- a/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in
> +++ b/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in
> @@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ eval $(awk -F' *= *' '$1 ~ /DBPath/ { print $1 "=" $2 }' /etc/pacman.conf)
>  
>  mkdir -p "$CHECKUPDATE_DB"
>  ln -s "${DBPath}/local" "$CHECKUPDATE_DB" &> /dev/null
> -fakeroot pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATE_DB" &> /dev/null
> -pacman -Qqu --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATE_DB" 2> /dev/null
> +fakeroot pacman -Syup --print-format "%n-%v" --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATE_DB" 2> /dev/null
>  
>  exit 0
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.2.230.g2bba2f0
> 
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