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

[William Giokas]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 03:06:56PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote:
> 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.

Okay. I thought that might be the idea behind it, but I wasn't sure.

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