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ruscook

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From: Sydney Australia

Registered: 2007-08-27

Posts: 105

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Pacman - New Package List??

I'd like to know if there's a combination of switches for Pacman that would allow me to get a list of new packages for a system upgrade, without doing the d/l and install.

Simply put, I'd like to "preview" the package changes a, for example, pacman -Syu would do, without it down loading and installing the new packages. That way, I could see what version of each package would be installed IF I choose to do the sync for real.

I'm not sure if -i (info) or -l (list) will do this and NOT do the install if combined with -Syu.

Is there a combination of command line switches that will achieve this?

Thanks
Russ

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Pacman - New Package List??

Well, why not pacman -Syu and answer "no"?

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Pacman - New Package List??

Try pacman -Qu , but on this subject : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7884?pro … r2=&sort2=

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

ruscook

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From: Sydney Australia

Registered: 2007-08-27

Posts: 105

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Re: Pacman - New Package List??

Well, why not pacman -Syu and answer "no"?

You know I never thought of that

Oh well, I'd prefer not to, in case I hit Y or enter by mistake.

Thanks

ruscook

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From: Sydney Australia

Registered: 2007-08-27

Posts: 105

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Re: Pacman - New Package List??

Try pacman -Qu , but on this subject : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7884?pro … r2=&sort2=

Ah,this looks like it. I'm too worried about dependencies, as I expect the package manager to resolve them, but would like to get a view of what major packages would be upgraded.

Thanks for that!

Russ
p.s. gotta love this distro, fast, easy to use, relatively easy to customise and a great support forum - thanks!