archlinux / pacman-contrib

Contributed scripts and tools for pacman systems (read-only mirror)

pacman-contrib

This repository contains contributed scripts to pacman.

Note: This used to be part of pacman.git, but was moved out to make pacman maintenance easier.

How to build:

./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --localstatedir=/var
make
make check
make install DESTDIR="$pkgdir"

Scripts available in this repository:

• checkupdates - print a list of pending updates without touching the system sync databases (for safety on rolling release distributions).

• paccache - a flexible package cache cleaning utility that allows greater control over which packages are removed.

• pacdiff - a simple pacnew/pacsave updater for /etc/.

• paclist - list all packages installed from a given repository. Useful for seeing which packages you may have installed from the testing repository, for instance.

• paclog-pkglist - lists currently installs packages based pacman's log.

• pacscripts - tries to print out the {pre,post}_{install,remove,upgrade} scripts of a given package.

• pacsearch - a colorized search combining both -Ss and -Qs output. Installed packages are easily identified with a [installed], and local-only packages are also listed.

• rankmirrors - ranks pacman mirrors by their connection and opening speed.

• updpkgsums - performs an in-place update of the checksums in a PKGBUILD.