locally installed packages

hussam · 2006-05-09 10:07:56

Is there anyway to list packages that are installed but are not in the archlinux repositories?
Say I built some arch packages and installed them and I forgot what the packages were. Or if some package is removed from the repository.
How would I know which are local?

syd · 2006-05-09 10:39:42

You cant to my knowledge tell where they have been installed from.
Unless you dont clear you /var/cache/pacman dir. Then you know which ones you have downloaded from the net.

I keep all the pkgbuild i make my self in my documents and then cvs most other stuff i need.

tomk · 2006-05-09 10:57:51

Here's a quick-n-dirty bash thing:

for pkg in `pacman -Q | cut -d " " -f 1` ; do pacman -Si $pkg 1>/dev/null ; done

That will list all your non-repo packages like this:

Package "foo" was not found.
Package "bar" was not found.
etc ......

jaboua · 2006-05-09 12:30:40

You can also try looking through the package names in /var/cache/pacman/src/ - IIRC they won't be removed at a clean of pacman cache. But note that it will also include packages that you have removed...

T-Dawg · 2006-05-12 01:51:42

hussam wrote:

Is there anyway to list packages that are installed but are not in the archlinux repositories?

pacman -Qm

tomk · 2006-05-12 06:47:38

Jeez! Thanks Penguin!

Even after nearly two years on Arch, I still need to follow the advice I often give to others:

man pacman

_Gandalf_ · 2006-05-12 07:07:47

Exactly !
in this case use tomk trick, so it's slower but gives u what u are seeking

brain0 · 2006-05-12 14:43:47

-Qm must be new, at least I didn't see it when I read the manpage the last time.

T-Dawg · 2006-05-12 21:58:51

brain0 wrote:

-Qm must be new, at least I didn't see it when I read the manpage the last time.

yeah VMikos or whatever his name is from Frugalware was responsible for that. I too have noticed it doesn't display all foreign packages -for me it misses xarchive.
I'm not sure if there is a bug report about it but it may be a good idea to bring it to their attention before pacman3 is released.

shining · 2006-05-13 11:21:02

for xarchive, it makes sense, because there is xarchiver in community.
And the comparison that is done is :
strstr("xarchiver", "xarchive") which returns not null since xarchive is in xarchiver. (quite easy to fix).
But for opera-devel and other svn packages, I don't see why it doesn't work. So I just tried to install opera-devel from aur, and it's correctly listed by pacman -Qm

What about locally updated packages (for example, when you add a patch to a package, and bump the revision) ?
hmm well, these ones are already displayed by pacman -Su :
:: pacman: local (2.9.8-2) appears to be newer than repo (current/2.9.8-1)
but, well they aren't part of archlinux repo, so maybe they should be displayed by pacman -Qm too ?

If anyone could explain pholie problem.. I don't see what provide has to do with it (in the code), but I'll check again.

shining · 2006-05-13 16:09:46

ha ok it's better now.
So here is a little fix for a stricter string comparison :

--- pacman-2.9.8/src/pacman.c.ori       2006-05-10 20:58:27.000000000 +0200
+++ pacman-2.9.8/src/pacman.c   2006-05-13 14:10:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -2648,10 +2648,8 @@                                          
                                                                char *haystack;
                                                                char *needle;
                                                                haystack = strdup(pkg->name);
-                                                               strtoupper(haystack);
                                                                needle = strdup(info->name);
-                                                               strtoupper(needle);
-                                                               if(strstr(haystack, needle)) {
+                                                               if(strlen(haystack) == strlen(needle) && strstr(haystack, needle)) {                                                     
                                                                        match = 1;
                                                                }
                                                                FREE(haystack);
@@ -2740,10 +2738,8 @@                          
                                                char *haystack;
                                                char *needle;
                                                haystack = strdup(pkg->name);
-                                               strtoupper(haystack);
                                                needle = strdup(info->name);
-                                               strtoupper(needle);
-                                               if(strstr(haystack, needle)) {
+                                               if(strlen(haystack) == strlen(needle) && strstr(haystack, needle)) {                                                     
                                                        match = 1;
                                                }
                                                FREE(haystack);

I just compare the length on the name first. And I removed the strtoupper since I don't think it should be done, but I could be wrong.
Every package should be in lowercase anyway..

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#1 2006-05-09 10:07:56

locally installed packages

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Re: locally installed packages

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Re: locally installed packages

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Re: locally installed packages

#5 2006-05-12 01:51:42

Re: locally installed packages

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Re: locally installed packages

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Re: locally installed packages

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Re: locally installed packages

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