[pacman-dev] [PATCHv2] Display old and new version in pacman -Qu output

Florian Pritz bluewind at xinu.at
Sat Sep 21 14:50:46 EDT 2013


This changes the output from "foo 1.0" to "foo 1.0 -> 1.1" which makes
cronjobs that mail the -Qu output way more helpful.

Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at>
---
v2:
 - add NULL check
 - only display for -Qu, not for -Q

 src/pacman/query.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/pacman/query.c b/src/pacman/query.c
index c9c82b9..3a0b4ea 100644
--- a/src/pacman/query.c
+++ b/src/pacman/query.c
@@ -318,8 +318,16 @@ static int display(alpm_pkg_t *pkg)
 			&& !config->op_q_changelog && !config->op_q_check) {
 		if(!config->quiet) {
 			const colstr_t *colstr = &config->colstr;
-			printf("%s%s %s%s%s\n", colstr->title, alpm_pkg_get_name(pkg),
+			alpm_pkg_t *newpkg = alpm_sync_newversion(pkg, alpm_get_syncdbs(config->handle));
+
+			printf("%s%s %s%s%s", colstr->title, alpm_pkg_get_name(pkg),
 					colstr->version, alpm_pkg_get_version(pkg), colstr->nocolor);
+
+			if(config->op_q_upgrade && newpkg) {
+				printf(" -> %s%s%s", colstr->version, alpm_pkg_get_version(newpkg), colstr->nocolor);
+			}
+
+			printf("\n");
 		} else {
 			printf("%s\n", alpm_pkg_get_name(pkg));
 		}
-- 
1.8.4


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