Collection of pacman- and package-related scripts.

Xyne · 2012-11-26 18:50:27

I have uploaded a small collection of simple package-related scripts that has been growing on my system. I have posted (variations of) most of them around the forum in response to different threads.

Some examples:
* detect incomplete packages (i.e. packages missing installed files)
* recursively list unpackages files in a given directory (e.g. can be used to find leftover packages in /usr)
* extract original version of file from package cache (e.g. to see what a configuration file was before you butchered it)
* clean custom package cache while keeping a certain number of versions for each package

etc.

You can get them here: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/scripts/pkg/. If there is enough interest I will probably package these.

There is now a package. You can find repo and AUR links here: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pkg_scripts/

Last edited by Xyne (2013-11-10 21:46:46)

deepsoul · 2013-02-05 23:29:49

Thank you for posting this! I apparently wasn't around when you posted these tools previously. I especially like pkg-list_dep_dates for viewing dependency trees (most other distributions have such a tool, somtimes as a package manager feature) and pkg-extract_original (to view unchanged config files, as you say). pkg-list_unpackaged_files is also helpful for an overview of local installs / modifications.

Xyne · 2013-02-06 11:49:59

I'm glad someone finds them useful.
Thanks for the feedback!

Allan · 2013-02-06 12:04:13

Xyne wrote:

* detect incomplete packages (i.e. packages missing installed files)

Um - you do know about "pacman -Qk" (or -Qqk for less noise).

Note, in the upcoming pacman-4.1 pacman will confirm file size, permissions, ownership, creation times, symlink targets. Checksum checking needs additional libarchive support.

Xyne · 2013-02-06 12:10:33

Allan wrote:

Xyne wrote:
* detect incomplete packages (i.e. packages missing installed files)
Um - you do know about "pacman -Qk" (or -Qqk for less noise).
Note, in the upcoming pacman-4.1 pacman will confirm file size, permissions, ownership, creation times, symlink targets. Checksum checking needs additional libarchive support.

As I said, these are scripts that have collected over time. I don't bother to delete them whenever Pacman catches up.

But yeah, when I posted this thread, I didn't have that in mind.

Last edited by Xyne (2013-02-06 12:20:35)

Allan · 2013-02-06 12:28:15

I took a look to see what we could pilfer for pacman.

I quite like the package groups checking script - not sure that is right for pacman (although group handling does need improved) but something like that would be quite useful for pacman-contrib.

FYI, pacman-4.1 also puts makedepends and checkdepends into the repos, so your topological rebuild script could get a boost.

Xyne · 2013-02-06 12:41:53

Pilfer away.

Allan wrote:

FYI, pacman-4.1 also puts makedepends and checkdepends into the repos, so your topological rebuild script could get a boost.

You lost me here (I'm ridiculously tired, bear with me). Do you mean that it somehow uses local repos for building?

Btw, have you seen makedep?

Allan · 2013-02-06 12:50:23

To rebuild packages in order, you need to know the makedepends (and I suppose checkdepends) as just using the depends is not enough in some cases. We add that extra information into the repos with repo-add in pacman-4.1 so the order can take those into account too.

I had seen makedep - it sort of achieves what a submitted patchset did for pacman but that never got revised based on comments so only extra informational stuff for optdepends is added in pacman-4.1. If only someone paid me to implement everything I want to in pacman...

Xyne · 2013-10-21 23:50:17

The collection now includes a script names "pkg-backup" for saving modified copies of package "backup" files. Inspired by this thread.

Xyne · 2013-11-10 21:51:10

I have created a package for these scripts. Check the OP for the current link.

Xyne · 2014-12-25 22:46:05

added pkg-simple_search and pkg-busybox_recovery
See the announcement for details.

I would appreciate comments on pkg-busybox_recovery. Suggestions for preserving existing configuration files or running as root without suid would be appreciated.

Last edited by Xyne (2014-12-25 22:50:49)

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Collection of pacman- and package-related scripts.

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