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knopper92

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From: British Columbia, Canada

Registered: 2009-05-14

Posts: 40

Paclist - another pacman/conky script

I was looking for a script to display packge info in conky, but I couldn't find a decent one. I saw others, but I couldn't tweak them because it looked like a tsunami hit them. So I wrote my own.

Tell me what you think.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import commands

def echo_lst():
    status, output = commands.getstatusoutput("pacman -Qu")
    if not "no upgrades found." in output:
        pkglst, sep, junk = output.partition("Total Download Size:")
        pkglst = pkglst.split()
        del pkglst[0:6]
        del sep, junk
        if len(pkglst) > 1:
            print("{0} updated package(s) available:".format(len(pkglst)))
        elif not len(pkglst) == 0:
            print("The world is ending, please back up your data.")
        for pkg in pkglst:
            print(pkg)
    else:
        print("No updated packages available")

echo_lst()

Last edited by knopper92 (2009-08-02 19:32:44)