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#1 2013-06-17 19:38:57

cyker
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Checkout files from a pacman package

Just wonder whether it's possible to checkout files from a pacman package. Sometimes I want to revert a file to its stock version. For example:

pacman -checkout /etc/mpd.conf mpd.pkg.tar.xz 

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#2 2013-06-17 19:40:18

karol
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Re: Checkout files from a pacman package

Arch packages are just compressed archives, so you can use standard tools like tar / bsdtar for this.

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#3 2013-06-17 19:43:32

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Re: Checkout files from a pacman package

Or if it is just a package provided config file, use the web interface: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/


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#4 2013-06-17 20:09:41

cyker
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Re: Checkout files from a pacman package

karol wrote:

Arch packages are just compressed archives, so you can use standard tools like tar / bsdtar for this.

Do you mean something like this?

tar -Jxvf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mpd.pkg.tar.xz etc/mpd.conf -O > /etc/mpd.conf

It works but I need to manually find the package in cache and specify the filename. If pacman has an internal *checkout* feature things would be much easier.


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#5 2013-06-17 20:19:47

karol
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Re: Checkout files from a pacman package

I haven't tested it much, but

bsdtar -qxf "/var/cache/pacman/pkg/$(pacman -Q $1 | tr ' ' -)-i686.pkg.tar.xz" $2

e.g.

bsdtar -qxf "/var/cache/pacman/pkg/$(pacman -Q pacman | tr ' ' -)-i686.pkg.tar.xz" etc/pacman.conf

should work.
You can create function and put it in your .bashrc.

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#6 2013-06-17 21:04:05

tomk
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Re: Checkout files from a pacman package

cyker wrote:

Sometimes I want to revert a file to its stock version.

Reinstall the package and reinstate the *.pacnew version of the file - man pacman if you need more details.

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