Figure out the changed files with pacman

ebal · 2011-08-22 11:06:06

Hello,

is there an alternative to "rpm -qVa"
with pacman ?

jaco · 2011-08-22 11:17:43

ebal wrote:

Hello,
is there an alternative to "rpm -qVa"
with pacman ?

Are we supposed know how rpm works?

We are on Arch forum, not on Redhat/Fedora ones...

Last edited by jaco (2011-08-22 11:23:02)

stoat · 2011-08-22 12:13:51

ebal wrote:

is there an alternative to "rpm -qVa"
with pacman ?

Maybe.

In an rpm-based system, that rpm command lists all installed packages and verifies them against the metadata in the rpm database. To me, this might produce an equivalent output in Arch...

pacman -Qk

If not, then study the pacman man page and Archwiki. Maybe you will find something that will do what you want.

karol · 2011-08-22 12:49:28

stoat wrote:

ebal wrote:
is there an alternative to "rpm -qVa"
with pacman ?
Maybe.
In an rpm-based system, that rpm command lists all installed packages and verifies them against the metadata in the rpm database. To me, this might produce an equivalent output in Arch...
pacman -Qk
If not, then study the pacman man page and Archwiki. Maybe you will find something that will do what you want.

If you're sure about this, can you add it to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta ? 'Package Verification' section is already there, but it doesn't have Arch equivalents listed.

Last edited by karol (2011-08-22 12:51:11)

Allan · 2011-08-22 12:56:39

Sort of... "pacman -Qk" just checks the files from the package are still on the system. It does not verify that they have not changed. Adding that is on the roadmap for pacman-4.1.

trusktr · 2013-07-16 00:54:19

Allan, -Qkk is nice, to see the number of altered files, but how do we actually see which files are altered (or missing as bonus, but command like trickery can do this easily already)?

-Qkkl would be nice. Output could be along the lines of:

package-name: {missing,altered}: /path/to/folder/filename

Last edited by trusktr (2013-07-16 00:56:44)

cfr · 2013-07-16 01:04:03

I get a listing of altered files with a comment saying what change has been identified e.g. different size, different modification time... Did you actually try the command on something where you have altered files e.g. something with configuration files? (I tried grub.)

karol · 2013-07-16 01:29:58

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … tion_files ?

Allan · 2013-07-16 01:31:18

trusktr wrote:

Allan, -Qkk is nice, to see the number of altered files, but how do we actually see which files are altered (or missing as bonus, but command like trickery can do this easily already)?
-Qkkl would be nice. Output could be along the lines of:
package-name: {missing,altered}: /path/to/folder/filename

Did you even run "pacman -Qkk"?

ewaller · 2013-07-16 01:40:12

And, on that note, I think it is safe to close this (almost) two year old thread.

Xyne · 2013-07-16 02:04:18

Allan wrote:

Did you even run "pacman -Qkk"?

Allan, please take a picture of yourself making a face of utter disbelief so we can macro such statements onto it and post them as replies.

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